Amit Sagar

Background

About Amit Sagar

Result driven professional with strong legal background corroborated by professional qualifications (Graduate in Law & 18+ years’ experience) in legal affairs and compliance • Diverse in-house legal experience spanning across Services Manufacturing, Banking, FMCG, Infrastructure sectors • Providing management with commercially minded legal advice, explaining how law treats particular issues & assisting in making business and strategic decisions that are sound and unassailable in law. • Advising senior management on legal matters, strategic initiatives & projects & regulatory laws. • Providing guidance to management on ethics, business conduct and compliance matters aimed at maintaining the strongest leadership in integrity and driving a culture of high ethics and compliance • Drafting, vetting & finalizing legal documents – legal agreements, contracts, MSA, MOU, purchase, JV agreements, lease & licenses • Negotiated and concluded contracts in SWA regions including reviewing, drafting and negotiating of Master Service, Software Licensing & Confidentiality Agreements • Recommending changes to processes and procedures to reduce compliance risk and raise operational standards • Independently handled legal cases (including employee litigation), arbitration proceedings & represented company before Judicial & quasi-judicial authorities • Ability to work effectively in fast changing environment with changing priorities & often under tight time constraints • Good work exposure and worked with people from diverse cultures and travelled extensively. Specialties: Corporate Generalist Attorney with substantial in-house legal experience providing legal support in the areas of Litigation, Contract drafting, Labor Laws, Compliances, Corporate Governance, formulating SOP.