Seethalakshmi

Seethalakshmi G Legal Consultant - - 08 Aug 1985 Married NO.5/966, 1st Floor, 12th Street, Ayyappa Nagar, Madipakkam Chennai. Legal - Contracts / IT - Start Ups - Real Estate / Corporate / Trust / IT / Due Diligence Legal - Liasoning - Contracts - IT - Land Procurement - Due Diligence - Revenue Records - Registration, IT - Firms - Corporate Due Diligence - Contract Framing - Negotiation - Execution of Contracts Profile An astute and result-oriented individual with over 15+ years of professional experience in the field of legal due diligence, corporate and contract management. Extensive Knowledge in opinion to land procurement, Contract Management and documentation with 650 acres of Due Diligence Report completed in 6 months. 11+ years of experience in contract management with startups and private limited companies, including reviewing, summarizing, and providing opinions on contracts and agreements with vendors, service providers, and distributors. Coordinated with teams, assigned daily tasks, and prepared daily, weekly, and monthly reports for management. 3+ years of experience in government departments such as SRO, Tahsildar, district level officials for liasoning process for post procurement. 7+ years of experience in liaising with companies and negotiating business legal terms and conditions. 4+ years of customer negotiation with the start ups for IT related industries. 6+ years of experience in HR policies and procedures. 2+ years of dealing company related matters and trust, society compliance, and stakeholders meetings. Practiced as assistant lawyer in Madras High Court. Demonstrated capabilities in drafting agreements, deeds, and contracts including legal vetting of diverse business documents. Obtaining all kinds of revenue documents from various government offices and online submissions. Effective communicator and negotiator with exceptional relationship management skills. Adept at maintaining cordial business relations with legal counsels and other external agencies. Processing government and private tenders. Handling a team of six and more to assign day-to-day activities and reporting the work progress to the management on a weekly basis. Assisting admin and accounts departments for Fund Rising Management. Payroll process coordination, Employment welfare and development consultation with HR department. Endowed with a creative and analytical mind with innate strengths to take up legal challenges in a competitive scenario. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professional Experience Jul 2021 – present Private Consultant, IT, Corporate, Start-up Business, Foreign Investors, Real Estate Chennai, Global and Religious Federation Preparation of agreements related to start-ups such as SaaS, revenue sharing agreements and coordinating with customers, and detailing the process. Drafting, summarizing, and reviewing contracts; providing opinions on contract-related matters; negotiating with concerned parties; avoiding escalation; and concluding contracts in a timely manner. • • 1/4 Offering guidance to foreign companies investing in India, including explanations of and ensuring compliance with Indian laws and regulations. Legal Advising, drafting contracts and agreements related to business as well as start-ups. To do the due diligence on customers’ backgrounds and certification for their business capacity. Preparation and execution of online business agreements such as Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, Cancellation and Refund Policy with the clients and customers. Preparation of company related documents including MOA, AOA and coordination of Corporate Secretary for legal compliance. Assisting Clients with their Tax related matters and helping with online submissions such as GST, and UDYAM. Guiding clients regarding the governmental processes to their business benefits with tax matters. Preparing notes and giving guidelines to register in central government's MSME process. To provide guidelines to clients regarding customers’ legal matters and queries. To do the drafting, reviewing, summarizing, negotiating, finalizing with the contract terms with companies and customers. To do the due diligence for flats and plots of land such as land selling, and leasing. Due diligence of land-related search and online compliance with related Government departments. Tracing online details of revenue records and documents of properties, notifications, and case laws concerning legal issues with the land. Producing legal opinion on land documents related to Real Estate and builder’s process. To help and guide the clients related to the loan process and its related matters. (Documentation and communication with the bank officials) Successfully handled a team with legal matters for the client’s business. Train up, keeping the team knowledgeable on laws and regulations under Indian procedures. Guiding clients regarding Trust matters, compliance, and the resolution process. Advising the federation related to religious queries, Court proceedings, and issuing legal notices. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Apr 2019 – Jun 2021 Legal Officer, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai Preparation of case details for filing before courts by group advocates and assist them by providing details and documents whenever required. Carrying out due diligence on the title of properties and draft documents related to land and provide necessary assistance in the registration of documents. Tracing online details of revenue records and documents of properties, notifications, notices, and case laws with legal issues concerning group institutions. To liaison with group panel advocates and monitor the pending cases before the various courts. Drafting, summarizing, and reviewing MOUs, Contracts, NDA, Policies, Bonds, and agreements on national and international collaboration of business and institutional aspects. To draft employment agreement, renewal letters, HR coordination in employment process. • • • • • • 2/4 To draft HR policies and amendments execution under management procedures. To execute a legal action or issue legal notice against the employees who is not following the employment polices and procedures. Conduct domestic inquiries on disciplinary action against the employees of the group. Representing the company for the District and High Court before the case trials. Email updates to the higher officials regarding legal matters. To provide legal advice on legal issues in day-to-day administrative matters. To execute legal action and give legal notice against the employees for their dissatisfied services. Attending committee meetings regarding legal matters and issues. Translate Tamil documents, orders, and communications of government notifications to English. Verified, arranged, and obtained the documents of landed properties of the group institutions. To update all the legal matters with the Legal consultant on a day, week, and monthly basis. To assist the Legal Consultant in all legal affairs about the group institutions. • • • • • • • • • • • • Dec 2018 – Mar 2019 Consultant, Vijayraja Homes Pvt. Ltd, Chennai Land-related legal opinions including Due diligence for plots and flats Builders proposals Drafting legal documentation for the registration process Online registration, revenue records research and for all kinds of registrar office works Conducted queries related to banks and customers Communication regarding customer queries in RERA and other governmental processes • • • • • • Jul 2012 – Nov 2018 Independent Legal Consultant Research of Intellectual Property laws such as Trademark, Copyright, and Patent. Trademark research, opinion on trademark name, suggesting names and registration. Land-related legal opinions like Sale and Bank process. Reviewing and summarizing contracts, Joint ventures, and partnership agreements. Legal drafting, reviewing contracts, agreements, terms and conditions, and privacy policy. Drafting website development legal documents. Legal opinions on contracts, partnership agreements. Legal Research works and necessary legal consultation. Legal documentation and registration process. Arbitration and Conciliation Law. • • • • • • • • • • Mar 2011 – Mar 2012 Executive – Legal & Admin, Cornet Technology (I) Pvt Ltd, Chennai Review of documents, Legal Research, Contract review, and Legal Notice issues. Handling all administration procedures. Negotiating with the suppliers on the legal terms and conditions. • • • 3/4 Negotiations of major deals. • Oct 2010 – Feb 2011 Junior Advocate, Mr. Ramesh Cumar, Advocate, Madras High Court Independently researched and drafted legal head notes and opinions, contract agreements and other deeds, legal opinions, civil suits, written statements, and other proceedings. Due diligence of land-related matters to find Litigation & Non-Litigation lands and get revenue records such as Patta, EC, and A-Register, Dealt with the drafting of Affidavits, Contracts, and other legal documents of the company. Followed up on Arbitration Matters, Bank Communications, Document compliance, and court cases and maintained cordial relations with statutory authorities, and legal professionals / legal counsels. • • • • Aug 2008 – Aug 2010 Junior Advocate, Mr. Siva Raman, Advocate, Trichy District Court Independently researched and drafted Civil Suits, MCOP matters, and other proceedings. Represented before the District Court on behalf of the Senior Counsel. • • Education 2012 – 2014 M.L., Madras University, Chennai 2003 – 2008 B.A. B.L., Govt. Law College, Tiruchirappalli 2001 – 2003 Higher Secondary, Rajahs HSS, Thanjavur Skills Windows 11 OS MS-Office Internet and Email applications Languages Tamil English Enumeration 4/4