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Burlington, IA, US

Burlington, VT, US

• Leading overall management of all customer-focused service functions, and day-to-day operations across all departments.
• Building and managing the development and engineering teams operating across two geographies.
• Defining and identifying the path to achieving the strategic goals and growth milestones for the company along with the C-Suite team.
• Developing and deploying processes and structure across the organization for effective operations, decision making, and constant coordination and communication.
• Leading on legal operations and governance within the company by establishing contractual templates, compliance matrices, regulatory guidance, and enforcing legal process frameworks.

Williston, Vermont, US

• Heading iSun's India office remotely; responsible for core development, engineering and legal operations of iSun's C&I and utility scale projects.
• Established iSun's India office and grew the team to 25 within a year including electrical engineers, analysts, project managers, accounting specialists and lawyers to support iSun's utility scale operations in the US.
• In house counsel handling contracts through their lifecycle for project development, financing and M&A.
• Closed a JV with Israeli partners valued at $400 million for solar development across the US.
• Led on negotiating a turnkey $7 million EPC agreement to develop carports for a $400+ billion, Fortune 500 financial investment company.
• Ran development and permitting for a variety of utility scale and commercial solar projects aggregating in excess of 200 MWs across multiple states.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

• Led the legal operations and compliance management of the company as the Compliance Officer, and supported execution of major enterprise and hyperscaler contracts.
• Negotiated service deals with a variety of e-commerce companies, banks and hyperscalers in excess of 150 MW capacity.
• Established contract and compliance management process workflow with the deployment of software enabled solutions improving overall efficiency and timeliness with respect to customer interface.
• Supported operations, sales and marketing teams with in-house legal advisory, negotiations and dispute resolution with respect to the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Ensured legal support for project development and financing, including MCA, MSA, EPC, subcontractor, service, financing agreements etc.
• Ran point on the formation of an equal JV with stakeholders spread across multiple continents.

IN

• Ensured transactional support and rendered legal advisory on development, construction, operation and maintenance of utility scale solar projects across multiple US states.
• Integrated legal and operational processes to manage regulatory and policy compliances for improved project planning and execution.
• Contributed towards legal aspects and contractual modeling of tax equity financing and debt financing.
• Performed in-house corporate management of multiple SPEs and their HoldCos.
• Engaged and negotiated with multiple external partners on collaborations in datacenter, solar, and petrochemical initiatives.
• Assisted with the legal aspects to integrate a US immigration programme with the business model to ramp up alternative investment for our solar projects.

IN

• Took complete ownership of project based compliance management and legal advisory on early and late stage development of renewable projects in the US within a couple of months of joining.
• Established legal processes to ensure mitigation of legal and regulatory risks by working closely with the finance, operations, business development and commercial leadership.
• Assisted the General Counsel on project financing, tax restructuring and acquisition transactions that included preparation and vetting of disclosure documentation and related agreements.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

• Formed a part of the core team setting up international logistics channel between suppliers and local distributors for solar products in India.
• Helped develop cab hailing and beauty/wellness online marketplaces with 5000+ cabs and 200+ wellness centers.
• Performed regulatory filings and handled domestic arbitration disputes.
• Participated and advised in client/vendee/franchise dealings towards the sale of solar power products for industrial/domestic purposes.
• Negotiated and oversaw a distribution venture with a Chinese company for solar products. Managed legal and regulatory compliances for supply chain management and channel development. Handled the contract for.
• Drafted and negotiated agreements relating to procurement, logistics and supply chain, service, non-disclosure, channel development and partnership towards the operations of the company.

Master Of Laws - Llm, Global Energy, Environmental Law And International Arbitration

B.A. Ll.B. (Hons.) With Specialization In Energy Laws, Law

High School, Science