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• Legal Advice including free legal advice for economically weaker clients
• Legal Notices and Pre-Action letters for clients in India, USA, Canada, and Caribbean countries
• Filed and got decreed mutual consent divorce applications
• Drafted various indentures as per client requirements and received enthusiastic approval and testimonials from clients
• Pursuing certification courses to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and learn about new advances in the legal field

• Complete drafting and filing of civil suits from first Legal Notice, rejoinders thereto, Suits, Petitions, Memos, Written Statements, Counters, Rejoinders/ Replications, Evidence Affidavits, Written Submissions/ Written Arguments
• Drafting of indentures such as Agreements of Sale and Sale Deeds of immoveable properties, Wills, Memorandums, tailored Commercial Agreements
• First presentation of suit before the Judge via an out of order application (wherever necessary)
• Representation of cases in various Courts on daily basis
• Client interaction
• Case law research and highlighting relevant text for Senior’s perusal
• Court Section office work
• Converted diary based case date tracking to Ms Excel based tracking system, the “Advocate Manager”, within first 3 months of joining the office, leading to increased efficiency
• Arranged file cabinet for easy retrieval as per instructions of the Senior and with passage of time improved the system
• Troubleshot various computer issues, network issues, and contributed to reduce down-time due to technical problems

• Drafted impactful legal pre-action Notices that even led to request for compromise
• Learnt drafting of civil suits, petitions, memos, written statements, and study case files
• Represented office matters in various civil courts and handled all kinds of Court section office work

• Managed all aspects of the business right from sweeping the floor in absence of staff to closing sale and purchased transactions worth valuable amounts
• Managed all aspects of the business from ‘a’ to ‘z’, while simultaneously pursuing studies in Law
• Expanded to multiple stores; established, and operated franchise store of multiple brands
• Had my share of successes and learnings with some stores turning profitable while others became teachers
• Sold the business to third-parties for entering the legal field

• Got trained in ladies ethnic garments trading and retail operations
• Work with the franchise development team for franchise expansion across India
• Site visits to assess potential franchise locations and the franchisee for their business generating capability
• Develop business plan and budgets for various activities such as marketing, advertising and franchise development
• Handled Franchise coordination and operations
• Assisted in personnel development by assessing and developing road-map for employees, handling salesmen grievances, conveying salesmen feedback to management and causing profitable changes in retail stores
• Revamped company’s IT communication systems, migrated its ecommerce websites to a single platform to drive up efficiencies, improve control, and benefit from cost savings
• Performed SMO activities to promote the company brands and its ecommerce activities online

• Franchise coordination and Operational activities
  • Handling communication with new and existing franchisees
  • Handling warehouse and inventory teams
  • Setting up of process and procedures for various franchise coordination and operational activities
  • Conceptualization and development of process literature, SOPs, and franchisee Key Performance Indicators and derive reports

• • Work in cross-geography teams for international clients as part of a team
  • Research diverse industries, sectors, and companies and create reports for clients to identify investment opportunities from a fundamental and valuation perspective as part of a team
  • Analyze profiles, business models, value chain, sales mix, and growth potential of a company from a fundamental perspective as part of a team

Projects Handled

• • Formulated growth strategies for a distribution company under a management consulting assignment as part of a team
  • Researched equities as a buy-side analyst for a UK based private equity client as part of a dedicated team
  • Covered Indian iron & steel sector and prepared investment memos / research reports as part of a dedicated team
  • Developed a suite of equity indices, Style-based investing and portfolio allocation strategies as part of a dedicated team
    • Involved in development and maintenance of financial products such as India Style Matrix, a suite of size-based, valuation-based, and economic sector-based equity indices, and passive/active investment strategies
    • Tracked and analyzed various factors influencing the Indian economy and financial markets regularly
    • Prepared monthly stock market diaries by analyzing the movement of Indian equities, tracked by the company’s proprietary stock market index
    • Assisted my Manager to pitch the above mentioned products through product presentations to potential clients

• Trained extensively to understand the reseller’s ordering and payment systems
• Researched and solved B2B merchants’ problems via email-based support, based on knowledge of the resellers ordering, and payment systems and transaction policies

• Achievements:
  • Lowest “Expressed Dissatisfaction Rate” (a Key Performance Indicator) for Merchant Support amongst 20 associates at Indian operations during my entire tenure
  • First to handle over 1000 merchant queries from India site by maintaining consistently low handling time
  • Ranked all time #3 in “maximum number of merchant cases resolved by an individual in a week” amongst 150 associates across all offices worldwide
  • Awarded most “Independent Researcher” award twice in the year 2005

• Identified and approached potential clients by collecting target customer information
• Sold life insurance products to clients after assessing factors such as income, investment amount and risk appetite
• Worked on a part-time basis during the final year of my graduate education course at ICFAI

• Achievements:
  • Certified as an Insurance Agent by the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of India (IRDA)
  • Ranked #3 in terms of premiums collected (sales) for the month of May 2004

• Specialized in Constitutional Law
• Dissertation Project: “Constitution May Have Failed the People Seeking Legal Recourse and Redressal for Having Suffered Due To Negligence at the Hands Of A Medical Professional”

• Figured consistently among top three students of the batch in terms of academic performance

• Member of Placement Committee, Entrepreneurship and Networking Club at SPJCM
• Edited for and contributed articles to ‘Archaeopteryx’ (fortnightly SP Jain newsletter)

• Dissertation Project: Investor Behavior in Bullion Markets
  • Analyzed gold price movements (using Investor Behavior theories) in response to certain defined events across other asset classes like equity, bonds and fixed deposits
  • Conducted an event study on price behavior of gold using more than 30 years of daily-level price data
  • Employed statistical tools to discover patterns in price movement between various asset classes

• Special Group Project on Islamic Finance with a large Malaysian bank, Singapore
  • Prepared a case study on the bank and the Singapore Market based on research and analysis of the challenges faced by the bank in deposit mobilization and introduction of Islamic financing products
  • Designed a new Shariah-Compliant product and marketing plans for the same

• ICFAI merit scholarship holder of Rs.100,000/-
• Awarded first prize for academic performance in subject IT & Systems amongst a batch of 190 students
• Prepared a report on “India: Agenda for Success by 2020” (under the guidance of the Academic Wing, ICFAI ) for a National level inter-college management festival and finished runners up in the event
• Edited for and contributed articles to the college periodical “Tarangini“

• Experienced working with Bloomberg Terminal, Reuters and Databases like EBSCO Host, ISI Emerging Markets, Capitaline, CMIE Prowess, Hoovers, Thomson Research and Thomson One Banker
• Experienced working with HTML, WordPress, Web-hosting sites, FTP, Raspberry Pi projects

• Represented my graduation college and won prizes in national level management festivals of institutes such as PES-BBM (Bengalooru), Christ College (Bengaluru), SDM College (Mangalore)
• Won accolades in inter and intra School\College Quiz and Elocution competitions
• Won prizes in Inter\intra School and Intra College sports competitions

• Interests: Web-Blogging, Reading: Non-Fiction and Science Fiction, Computer Technology
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