Ankit Sinha

Experience

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  Economic Laws Practice (ELP)

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2013

  Legal Intern

  Assisted in preparing due diligence reports, summarizing lease and licence documents and minutes of meeting for multiple transactions;Researched on - Gas pricing, infrastructure and taxation policies in India. - Issues related to Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, Companies Acts and SARFAESI Act and Rules, 2002.

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  WWF-India

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2013

  Legal Intern

  Researched on ‘How Absence of an Exclusive CITES Legislation is Affecting Wildlife Conservation in India’ and comparatively analysed CITES legislation in other countries.

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  Unilever

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

  Legal Intern

  Assisted in drafting written submissions, discharge applications and arguments for legal matters mentioned below;Researched on- “Unfair trade practices” under Consumer Protection Act, 1986 and attended proceedings at Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission for a legal matter- “Adulteration of food items” under Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 for a legal matter- Sale of drugs without a valid license under the Drug and Cosmetics Act, 1940 for a legal matter

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  Reliance Industries Limited

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2016

  Legal Intern

  Assisted in drafting sale and purchase agreements, share purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, brand partnership agreements and buying agency agreements for e-commerce platform ‘ajio.com’;Prepared a brief on the rights and liabilities of members of the managing committee of a co-operative housing society under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960;Researched on- Whether cigarettes can be advertised/sponsored/sold at an “open space” leased to a private entity under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003. - Whether the company’s e-commerce platform’s Terms and Conditions are in conformity with the Information Technology Act, 2000. - Whether the transfer of customer database is legally valid in India under the Information Technology Act, 2000. Show less

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  Environment, Law and Development Foundation (ELDF)

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2016

  Legal Intern

  Assisted in preparing a survey proposal of TRAFFIC – Reasons for Delay in Wildlife Crime Conviction and researched extensively on practical aspects of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 for the same.

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  VERUS, Advocates

  Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

  Legal Intern

  ~ Conducted empirical research of all judgements under section 26 of Competition Act, 2002 for data-driven analysis.~ Outcome of this internship was used as a basis to incorporate a new company (Riverus Technology Solutions) to develop data-driven legal insights.

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  Riverus Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

  Jun 2017 - Feb 2021

  ~ Started as a founding member of Riverus, working in the Product team on:~ Identification of patterns in Indian caselaws for legal data points;~ Working on machine learning models to extract data from Indian case laws by –- Annotating training data- Understanding classification models, NLP, BERT, NER and neural networks for application on legal documents to improve extraction of legal datapoints- Defining logic in collaboration with data science team;~ Collaborated with the lead in-house developer to create a database architecture for Research Map for Income Tax, used as a scalable model for future products (example, Research Map for GST);~ Contributed to Riverus Blog and Vox Analytica - company newsletter. Show less

  • AVP Products

    Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Senior Product Manager

    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Product Manager - Legal

    Jul 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Product Counsel

    Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
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  LawAdvisor Ventures

  Mar 2021 - now

  Product Manager

  Product lead for an online Access to Justice market network designed to provide legal help to everyone.Negotiating and closing licences with top 30 global law firms.