Sr. Legal Counsel – India - Synopsys India Private Limited - India
(2025-01)
Providing strategic legal guidance across commercial, corporate, employment, compliance, and regulatory matters.
- Advise business leaders on complex legal and contractual issues, balancing risk mitigation with commercial objectives.
- Lead contract review and negotiations, support governance and compliance initiatives, and partner with global Legal and cross-functional teams on business-critical matters.
Legal Counsel – India - Ansys Software Private Limited - India
(2023-01 - 2024-12)
Legal Coordinator & CSR Expert - Ansys Software Private Limited - India
(2019-01 - 2023-12)
- Owned end-to-end corporate governance and secretarial compliance for India and Singapore entities, sustaining a zero-default clean statutory filing record across the board and regulatory cycles.
- Reviewed and negotiated commercial contracts a year (NDAs, MSAs, vendor, licensing, and HR agreements) for all India business units, cutting average contract turnaround time from 24 hours to 2 days while holding the line on risk terms.
- Sat on the POSH Committee and resolved cases within statutory timelines with zero escalations, while rolling out awareness training that reached 1000+ employees.
- Partnered with HR & leadership on employment matters, closing disputes/policy updates that reduced litigation exposure and improved policy adoption.
- Delivered legal support across India operations and Singapore secretarial matters, becoming the go-to counsel for cross-border governance queries for a quarter.
- Structured and vetted CSR agreements ensuring 100% regulatory adherence across 50+ CSR programs worth ₹20 million.
- Managed global entity management for 5+ APAC entities, maintaining statutory registers, board records, and governance documentation in Diligent Entities with 100% audit-readiness.
- Administered contract lifecycle and governance workflows using SAP, Icertis, eDocs, and Diligent Entities, improving contract visibility and cutting document-retrieval/turnaround time.
- Advised on commercial and regulatory matters.
Assistant Manager - Legalogic Consulting
(2017-01 - 2019-12)
- Maintained statutory registers for 50+ companies under the Companies Act 2013, passing every audit with zero non-conformances.
- Filed all required statutory forms/returns with RoC/MCA with a zero-rejection track record.
- Contributed to due diligence for a listed company, reviewing corporate records ahead of the deadline.
- Managed statutory compliance for 50+ Public and Private Limited companies concurrently.
- Ran 100+ Board Meetings end-to-end (notices, agenda, minutes) with no procedural lapses flagged.
Compliance Executive - Pallavi Salunke (PCS)
(2017-01 - 2017-05)
- Maintained statutory registers and filed compliance forms with zero discrepancies.
- Supported strike-off and due diligence for companies, closing files ahead of schedule.
- Delivered RBI compliance and charity commissioner filings for entities with no rejections.
