Vahura | Senior Consultant, Strategy Consulting & Market Intelligence | Bangalore, India
- Led a 6-member cross-functional team (business, product and tech) , through the software development lifecycle to implement a bespoke CRM and ERP on MS Dynamics 365 for a leading Indian law firm, reducing cash to contract timelines by ~50%
- Developed a successful legal-tech market-entry strategy for a major Indian law firm, by identifying white-space opportunities and risks through commercial due-diligence involving market-sizing, competitive landscape analysis and value-driver assessments.
- Guided boards and managing partners of top-tier Indian law firms on strategy, implementation and change management of equity partnership operating models reducing the risk of attrition-linked revenue loss by 15-20%.
- Advised senior leadership of global enterprises in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, investment banking and venture capital sectors on talent, technology, and operations strategy for setting up India-based global capability centres for legal operations.
- Led 30+ HR analytics projects for law firms and marquee global investment funds, using tools such as Excel and highlighting insights through custom Power BI dashboards, reducing talent attrition risk and reducing talent acquisition costs by ~16-20%
- Managed business development initiatives, marketing campaigns and roadshows to pitch consulting projects to boards and managing partners of top-tier Indian law firms resulting in 3x repeat business and new business from 4 marquee clients in FY23-24.
Anand & Anand & Khimani | Associate| Mumbai, India
- Structured and negotiated 30+ content production and distribution agreements for award winning movies and web-series with Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ Hotstar, advising prominent producers on business and legal risk identification and mitigation strategy.
- Functioned as product legal counsel for a leading ad-tech platform, collaborating with product managers to develop and implement data privacy risk identification and mitigation strategy through the incorporation of privacy by design and robust data governance protocols.
- Counselled a leading alcohol beverage brand in a multi-million-dollar brand enforcement litigation in China, collaborating with local legal counsel to secure a favourable order thereby mitigating significant commercial, legal, and reputational risk.
- Advised Fortune 500 pharmaceutical (innovators) and technology clients on large-scale patent and brand enforcement disputes, driving cost savings, mitigating commercial and reputational risk through timely anti-counterfeiting actions.