shanmugam venkadachalam

About 7+ years of professional experience in Contract Management, Compliance, Due diligence, Stakeholder management, managing the contract cycle from the inception of contracts to its execution, managing the contract tool

7+ years in CLM 

(I) Legal & Compliance Specialist at Novartis Pharmaceuticals - From Mar 2022 to present
Managing Contract management systems which includes CDAs, Consultancy Agreements, Vendor Agreement, MSA and other contracts in direct contact with internal and external stakeholders and with Global Legal.
Legal and Compliance – Due diligence, Compliance, Drafting and Execution of CDAs, Funding Agreements, Consultancy Agreements, Commercial support, Risk management, Payments, reconciliation process.
Supporting Compliance and Operational related activities involving compliance risk analysis, compliance audit readiness.
Compliance monitoring, managing and reporting on internal tool to enable compliance operations.
Supporting Legal functions through red lining, legal reporting and analysis, invoice and payment support, Vendor Management/verification.
Stakeholder management, Tracking, Project management, Addressing ancillary queries from internal and external stakeholders.

(II) Process Lead at Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd - From Nov 2019 to March 2022
Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) (Post Sales) – Drafting & Change Management of SOW, Local Service Agreement, Change Orders, Renewal of contracts.
Addressing the complex contractual queries from internal and external stakeholders on provisions/clauses of MSA, SOW, Change orders. 
Interaction with stakeholders to ensure compliance of contractual terms & conditions, Delivery management, risk identification & tracking by maintaining log.
Stakeholder’s management on day to day contract management activities
Managing the contract cycle from the inception of contracts/change orders to its execution, managing the contract tool. 
Obligation Matrix. 
Abstraction of contracts and uploading into Contract Management Tool.
(III) Legal Associate (In House) at Pathfinder Business Analysis India (P) Ltd, Coimbatore - From April 2017 to October 2019 
Litigation Support & Drafting - Scrutiny of past due invoices, Examination of proof of claims, Drafting Demand Letters, Petitions, various motions, settlement agreements, executions, Release of liens etc within US jurisdictional purview.
Property research - Black letter law, Title deeds, encumbrances such as Liens, Senior Judgments, Ancestry check, Bankruptcy, Mortgages, Garnishment. 
Drafting & Drafting support - (i) drafting service agreements, MOUs, Promissory notes (ii) supporting US Legal Team in drafting agreements by providing supportive documents, information.
Red-lining, amendment, abstraction of contracts, handling contract related queries.
Feeding the contract details in litigation support tools & follow up.

(IV)  Legal Analyst at LexQual Solutions (P) Limited from June 2015 to April, 2017 (1 year 10 months)
Analytical research on different precedents/rulings of HCs & SC, Tribunals, Commissions on a specific/well known principle & contrary ruling, if any. 
Analysis & Summarization of judgments by capturing the ratio decidendi & relied precedents. 
Quality Assurance (QA) & Compliance (WestLaw).
Research on statutes, decisions, articles and codes, Editorial tasks such as Checking incomplete or incorrect citations, Formulation of Author Queries (LexisNexis).

BA. LLB - common law