Ishika Sircar Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

(A) LeadershipBuilt and head the APAC Contracts Team consisting of 10 team members (including contingent workers).(B) Driving Optimization - Identify and drive critical business opportunities and needs - Influence internal strategic direction, including contracts and negotiation strategies - Identify opportunities for growth, betterment of the business, formulate initiatives, composes teams and coach them to the finish line- Create and lead process improvement initiatives that significantly impact team, business or XFN partners- Ensure impactful category/subcategory contracts strategies- Critically examine existing processes to drive improvements, increased capacity, capability and strategic value year-on-year(C) Business Partnering-Strategize with the stakeholder leadership teams and provide advice on contractual structures, identify and mitigate contractual risks.- Engage with business leaders, having a ‘seat at the table’, ensuring contracts (as part of the broader sourcing team) is involved in major business initiatives.(D) Drafting and Negotiation- Lead the most complex and strategic contract negotiations with Meta’s suppliers.(E) Training and Development- Develop and provide Contracts training and guidance to the global Contracts Team and stakeholders, as required- Provides guidance, insight and expertise to other contracts category teams- Mentor global team members

Singapore, Singapore

Singapore

(A) Drafting and negotiation: Drafted and negotiated a full range of agreements including enterprise customer agreements (cloud computing enterprise agreements, training services agreements, and professional services agreements), marketing agreements (sponsorship agreements for AWS events and third party events), vendor agreements, partner agreements, non-disclosure agreements, account transfer agreements, vendor forms and tender submissions.(B) Advisory: Strategize with the Sales and Marketing Leadership Team and provide advice on contractual structures, identify and mitigate contractual risks.(C) Legal Operations: Developed a legal transactions metrics dashboard and lead Legal Metrics Tracking cadence for the legal leadership team to track various legal metrics to enable them take informed decisions regarding performance improvement, recruitment, invent and simplify projects and outside counsel management.(D) Key Invent and Simplify Projects:o Transactions Metrics Dashboardo RFI, RFP (RFX) and Vendor Forms Toolkit that could be made available to customers on a self-service format to reduce the amount of manual workrequired to respond to such requestso Pre-signed Sponsorship Agreement templateo AWS Training Freelance Instructor Program Launcho Information Sharing Project – Assess and report on issues with Legal team’s access to information from global teams. Develop hypotheses about underlying causes, and propose and run some time-based experiments to help test the hypotheses and address some of the issueso Fallbacks Guide for sponsorship agreements for AWS events and third party eventso Non-Disclosure Agreement Training video

Singapore

(A) Drafting, Vetting, Negotiations and Execution of Contracts: Drafted, vetted, validated and amended a full range of contracts including customer contracts (rental and operations and maintenance contracts), vendor contracts, memorandums of understanding, settlement agreements, non disclosure agreements and agency agreements and negotiated and executed such contracts(B) Contract and Post Contract Management: Maintained contractual records and documentation such as receipts and control of all contract correspondence, customer contact information sheets, contractual changes, status reports and other documents for all projects, monitored the life cycle of the contracts, ensured extensions or renewals and contract close-out ; prepared and monitored the status of contract summaries, lease deed database, insurance and guarantees(C) Compliance: Ensured contracts are in compliance with the company policies, provided opinions on various company policies and practices, conducted due diligence on representatives of the company and prepared project risk reports (D) Trainings: Led trainings on ethics and anti-corruption policies in countries across South East Asia, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand; provided commercial trainings to the APAC Sales, Marketing and Operations Team and new joiners (E) Research and Advisory: Conducted research on legal matters and advised on contractual matters and internal policies

Singapore

(A) Corporate Tax Compliance: Prepared tax computations and filed tax returns of financial institutions and insurance companies(B) Corporate Tax Advisory: Drafted opinions on various corporate tax issues such as Permanent Establishment and Withholding Tax

Bengaluru Area, India

(A)Contract Review: Vetted commercial agreements (B) Negotiation and liaison: with governmental authorities regarding refund of Service Tax(C) Litigation: Drafted replies to show cause notices, appeals, memorandum of cross objections, early hearing applications and other submissions, representations before adjudication and appellate governmental authorities(D) Advisory: Provided opinions on various Indirect Tax issues (E) Compliance: Prepared Service Tax Refund Claims, Value Added Tax Returns and Service Tax Returns(F) Technical Support: Prepared Service Tax Newsletters and Technical Presentations

Master Of Laws - Llm, Corporate And Financial Services Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Ba.Llb)

- Gold Medalist for excellence in Company Law, Banking Law, Family Law and Interpretation of Statutes - Secured second rank in BA.L (3 year)

Physics, Chemistry, Maths And Biology