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