PAVANI YERRABOLU

Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA, Mobile +91 9986711572 / 9490749146

mailto:pavaniyerrabolu27@gmail.com

S U M M A R Y

A high performing and result oriented Legal Professional (Contracts & Legal), with an aspiration to pursue an enriching career that offers opportunities to work on a diverse range of challenging tasks which hold the potential for enormous growth and learning.

COMPETENCY:

Review/vetting, redlining, drafting, identifying risk, interpretation, negotiation and finalization of both customer / supply agreements and vendor agreements / purchase agreements.

Interacting directly with customers while negotiating commercial contracts globally. End two End contracts cum legal support at pre execution and post execution levels. Pre-Sales support at RFP/RFQ/tender stage and evaluation of the same. Potential to deal complex opportunities from contracts cum legal perspective. Competent to provide global support for regions like UK, Americas, AMEA including India for

customer and vendor contracts.

S Y N O P S I S

Expertise in End to End Contract Management of vendor and customer contracts. Risk analysis of customer contracts Provide guidance to management regarding contract and legal implications arising from any contract. Supporting bid management team from contracts and legal perspective. Possesses strong communications and problem solving skills demonstrated by excellent writing and

speaking. Have a can-do, proactive, collaborative, problem-solver and team player qualities. Proven expertise and knowledge in drafting and negotiating customer and vendor contracts. Have strong business insight, well organized and comfortable with tight deadlines. Ability to form and lead ad hoc teams with colleagues. Flexibility in working hours and willing to accommodate multiple time zone constraints for meeting

deadlines.

Job Description

Corporate Counsel (Contracts), Computer Sciences Corp. Sept 2014 – Till Date

Working with CSC as one of its Corporate Counsel and part of Legal Shared Services team. Handles global contracts of CSC from contracts and legal perspective. The job involves but not limited to the following:

Review and red lining of the customer shared contracts to meet CSC standard. Identify deviations from customer contracts and prepare Exception Report for Management approval. Provide a general description and interpretation of the customer terms and conditions. Review of vendor shared agreements or changes done by vendor to CSC’s standard drafts. Drafting of back to back Subcontract agreements with vendors, for any procurement of services or

goods for customers of CSC. Review variety of agreements which include but not limited to NDA’s, Master Service Agreements,

Local Country Agreements, Teaming Agreements, Alliance / Reseller Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Sub-contracting Agreements, Loan Equipment / Evaluation Agreements, Lease Agreements, Supply Agreement etc.

PAVANI YERRABOLU Review of RFP’s and providing inputs to from legal and contracts perspective.

Provide contractual and legal terms in creation of proposals. Work closely with internal stakeholders like sales, finance, delivery and procurement teams while

working on any agreement or bid. Interaction with external clients directly during negotiation of customer contracts globally. Peer review of the work done by the team members and junior staff. Conducting training sessions to different stake holders as part of creating some awareness with

respect to certain legal clauses and impact of accepting them on the company. Updating standard drafts and if required drafting new templates to meet new business requirements. Provide risk analysis to the top management while accepting any clause which does not meet

company standard from contracts and legal perspective. Updating of internal training manuals on regular basis and conducting regular trainings for the team

members and junior staff on the internal process, contracts and legal clauses. Authoring training manuals with respect to review of various documents and the approach to review

such documents/agreements in coordination with company standard guidelines.

Corporate / In House Legal Counsel – Global Contracts, Tech Mahindra Ltd., (erstwhile Mahindra Satyam) Feb 2012 – Sept 2014

Was part of Contracts & Legal team that handle contracts with various customers, service provider/s / vendors.

The job involves:

Negotiated National / International IT cum Telecom commercial transactions/contracts of ROW (rest of the world consists of APAC, MEA and India) region.

Review of commercial contracts, corresponding with internal stake holders and negotiating with external customers and counsels in finalizing the agreements and other bid documents.

Drafting of transactional documents. Was instrumental in drafting and creating standard templates for various business verticals and competencies.

Reviewed and advised on the contractual aspects with respect to the merger and amalgamation. Was successful in handling critical business related queries post the Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra merger and was awarded as part of recognition. A merger that was one of its kind in the country’s corporate history.

Was instrumental in finalizing the agreements and other documentation for the establishment of various engineering colleges established by Mahindra Educational Institutions one of the subsidiary of Tech Mahindra.

Advising senior management about contractual risks that can go on to create legal or business risk with respect to commercial contracts.

Leading cross functional teams during negotiations with external customers on terms and conditions of a commercial contract.

Taking care of alliance agreements which include reseller agreements, partnership agreements etc., Have worked on finalizing contracts with several customers whose line of business includes but not

limited BFSI, Insurance, Engineering, Energy & Utility, Aerospace and Health care etc., Drafting of Subcontracting agreements with sub-contractors based on customer contracts to ensure

flow down of customer terms to subcontractors.

Attorney, Crown Bridge Group India Pvt. Ltd., Oct 2010 – Feb 2012

I was part of Crown Bridge Legal Team advising on various facets of contractual and legal clauses, legal cases and due diligence. This included: Review, draft, negotiate and interpret complex contracts accurately.

PAVANI YERRABOLU Vetted/reviewed various commercial contracts, lease documents etc., globally.

Provided risk analysis to customers. Reviewed various customer contracts that are amongst fortune 500 companies. Case summarization of the given brief post legal research on legal data base. Usage of West Law legal data base for conducting legal research while providing case summarization

to customer provided briefs / facets.

Advocate, Andhra Pradesh City Civil Court Nov 2009 – Oct 2010

I primarily dealt with variety of cases like Family, and Civil cases

The responsibilities included:

Attended various District Courts, Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, Debt Recovery Tribunal and Arbitration Proceedings assisting in Corporate, Civil, Arbitration and Consumer matters which involve drafting/preparation of various plaints, writ petitions, affidavits, written statements and other commercial agreement.

I have exposure to various deeds of conveyance including sale deeds, partnership deed, trust deeds lease agreement, leave and license agreement, agreement for sale, concession agreements and alike.

Legal Associate, Eupath India Pvt. Ltd April 2007 – Nov 2009

I had joined Eupath Legal Team and the job responsibility was focused on effectively managing the remote offshoring of contractual obligations & providing a complete and customized range of services to Eupath clients.

These includes

Vetted various companies’ legal and commercial documents as part of due diligence. Review of contracts as per client request to analyze contractual risks that are agreed As a Legal Associate reviewed and analyzed the documents thoroughly according to their relevance

to the case. Regular interaction with U.S. attorneys. Played active and constructive role in meeting company deadlines.

Junior Advocate in Visakhapatnam District Court / Andhra Pradesh High Court July 2005 to April 2007

My job included supporting Senior Advocate in variety of civil cases. These are highlighted as below:

Looked after various civil matters like money suits, contractual obligations and land encroachment cases

Assisted senior in drafting pleadings, and pleaded cases at court under the guidance of my senior. Effective communication skills gained through drafting of different kinds of deeds, Conveyance, court

visits, and in discussing matters with clients regarding corporate law and civil cases. Finding cases through legal databases and assisting senior in dealing with cases.

PAVANI YERRABOLU

A C C O M P I L S H M E N T S & A W A R D S

“Power of One” Award - for successful closure of all post-merger legal queries / issues of the entire ROW (Rest of the World) region in Tech Mahindra Limited.

“Associate of the Quarter” - Award, for playing crucial role in closing certain large and prestigious deals in that particular quarter.

“S” rating (Star rating) during every appraisal cycle. Gold Medal - as “Best BA Outgoing Student” for outstanding performance in academics during

graduation (B.A). Received appreciation certificate form Head of Contracts & Legal in CSC for showing excellent

contribution in closure of certain contract/s.

E D U C A T I O N

Passed Bachelor of Arts from Andhra Pradesh University earning Gold Medal as ‘Best BA Out going Student” and with 73% of marks.

Passed Bachelor of Law from Andhra Pradesh University in 2005 and stood third among the successful candidates from the College with 61% of marks.

T R A I N I N G S & C E R T I F I C A T E S

Contract interpretation, review and contract research New business bid pursuit, proposal, RFP, knowledge training Negotiation skills completed through CSC University.

I N T E R E S T S & A C T I V I T I E S

Reading, Music & Gardening

C O M P U T E R S K I L L S

Excellent Microsoft Office skills with thorough knowledge of MS Office 2013