Malvika Gupta

Legal Counsel at InterGlobe Aviation Limited (2024-11 – Present)

• Advise on end-to-end aircraft acquisition and delivery transactions, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex transaction documentation with OEMs (including Airbus), lessors and financiers, and coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Advise on aircraft leasing transactions, including drafting and reviewing lease agreements and ancillary documentation, negotiating conditions precedent/subsequent items, and supporting deal structuring, preparation of issues lists and coordination of transaction deliverables.
• Act on a range of aviation finance and asset management transactions, including lease extensions, novations, refinancings, and prepayments.
• Advise on and prepare aviation regulatory filings and documentation, including review of transaction structures for regulatory compliance.
• Draft, review and negotiate a diverse portfolio of commercial agreements, MoUs and LOIs across business verticals, including service agreements, procurement and supply contracts, marketing and promotional arrangements, charter flight agreements, travel partnerships, and payment gateway agreements and prepare customer-facing terms and conditions for promotional campaigns and strategic initiatives.
• Provide transactional and day-to-day advisory to business teams on contract structuring, risk mitigation and liability exposure, and manage end-to-end contract lifecycle processes, including template standardisation.

Legal Associate at DMD Advocates (2024-04 – 2024-10)

• Assisted in closing acquisition transactions; including drafting and vetting conditions precedent/subsequent documentation such as fulfilment notices, employment agreements, board and shareholder resolutions, share transfer forms, FC-GPR/ FC-TRS forms and attachments, consent letters, waiver letter and share certificates.
• Conducted comprehensive legal due diligence across key areas including commercial contracts, indebtedness, assets, employment, litigation, regulatory registrations, intellectual property, data privacy and anti-bribery compliance.
• Supported cross-border M&A structuring involving group entities across multiple jurisdictions including India, Singapore, Cyprus, USA and Cayman Islands, and conducted legal research on multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks.

Legal Associate at Treelife Ventures Services Private Limited (2022-04 – 2024-03)

• Drafted, reviewed and negotiated transaction documents for private equity and venture capital investments, including term sheets, share subscription and shareholders' agreements, share purchase agreements, joinder agreements, deeds of adherence and debenture trust deeds; supported transaction execution through preparation of share capitalisation tables and implementation of corporate actions, including alteration of articles of association.
• Drafted, reviewed and negotiated a wide range of commercial contracts across sectors, including technology, media and entertainment, cybersecurity, gaming, insurtech, fintech, edtech, cleantech, e-commerce, consumer products, healthcare, digital marketing, banking and F&B, including SaaS, service and service level agreements, business associate agreements, data processing addendums, confidentiality arrangements, founders' and advisor equity agreements, channel partner and collaboration agreements, intellectual property assignment agreements, software development, manufacturing and distribution, franchise, escrow and financing documentation.
• Drafted and advised on insurance-related documentation, including policy terms and frameworks for income protection plans, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and commercial objectives.
• Drafted and vetted employment related documents, including, offer letters, employment agreements and founders' employment agreements, employee invention assignment agreements, ESOP policies and grant letters, and workplace policies (including POSH, data privacy and employee benefits frameworks) and delivered POSH compliance training for start-ups.
• Advised on data protection and platform-related documentation, including drafting of terms of use, privacy policies and community guidelines for digital businesses.

Legal Associate at Chopra and Chopra Advocates and Solicitors (2021-08 – 2022-03)

• Drafted and vetted a range of commercial and general corporate agreements, including lease and rent agreements, franchise agreements, licensing agreements, service agreements, employment agreements, legal notices, police complaints and POAs.
• Advised on pre-litigation strategy and drafted legal notices, complaints and powers of attorney.
• Assisted in civil and commercial litigation, including drafting pleadings and appearing in proceedings relating to recovery suits, summary suits and matrimonial disputes.

LL.B. in Law – Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (2021)

B.A. (Hons) in Economics – Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi (2018)

XIIth – Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi (2015)

Xth – Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi (2013)