Riyas Rafi

Accomplished legal practitioner with 13 years of specialized experience in complex contractual matters, seeking to transition into legal academia as an Assistant Professor of Law. Aim to leverage deep practical insight to teach Contracts, Commercial

Law, and related subjects, enriching student learning with real-

world application and developing a scholarly agenda at the intersection of doctrine and practice

Guest Lecture – N A Global Law School

Contract and Company Law

 Designed syllabus and delivered course material for contract and company law, focusing on UCC Article 2, common law principles,

and remedies

 Developed innovative assessment tools, including fact-pattern based exams and practical negotiation exercises

 Developed case studies from actual transactional experience

 Designed and delivered comprehensive 1L curriculum to 60+

students per semesters

 Created original teaching materials including 15+ case studies from practice experience

 Implemented active learning strategies: contract drafting workshops, negotiation simulations, and client counseling exercises

Manager – Onboarding

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd |

September 2016 – May 2025

 Drafting & Doctrine: Drafted and negotiated over [Number] high-

value acquisition agreements, joint ventures, and master service agreements, providing tangible examples of contractual boilerplate, condition precedents, and remedy limitations for classroom discussion.

 Problem-Solving: Advised C-suite executives on contractual risk mitigation, translating legal doctrine into strategic business decisions—a key skill for training practice-ready lawyers.

Senior Officer

India Infoline Ltd | July 2015 - September 2016

 Achieved a high degree of communication between clients &

personnel to ensure sufficient scheduling

 Proactively investigated and resolved wide range of customer issues, adapting to individual circumstances and applying both diplomacy and assertiveness to assure customer needs are met in a timely manner

 Handling escalation calls from executives and resolving them with proper solutions, visits branches to observe customer feedback

Circle Coordinator

Videocon D2H Ltd | April 2014 - February 2015

 To Help Area Head & DSC / SSD Coordinator in Service Level

Agreement Achievement Operations

 Monitored the DSC/SSD Coordinator Working Process and

Rectified them mistake in live Complaint Closures

 Resolve& Manage the Engineer/ Escalation Service Request in

Assigned the SLA, act against who are misbehave with Customer at field service operation

 Managed and Achieved the Service Level Agreement (SLA) in customer request &Complaint, which are come through Mails at

PAN India

 Monitored the Mistakes & Delay reason of Pending above 24

Hours ageing cases and same to report to High level

Management

 Handle the Escalation & Nodal complaints, resolved in assigned

Ph.D. Research Scholar –

2025

School of Law

Dayananda Sagar University

LLM CFL – 2024

O P Jindal Global Law School O P Jindal University

LLB – 2022

Karnataka State Law

University

B. Com (CS) – 2007

Bharathiyar University

PSG. Sarvajana HSC - 2004

Higher Secondary Certificate

St. Marry’s SSLC - 2002