Yashodhara Bapat

Experience

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  Self-employed

  Sept 2010 - Jan 2017

  Independent Consultant

  Practising professional. Have experience in a range of corporate matters like routine advisory including entity formation, routine compliance, closures, mergers, advisory on matters pertaining to FCRA, representing clients before the reserve Bank of India in relation to FDI, ODI, compounding of contraventions, review of shareholder agreements, employment agreements, ESOP policies, etc.

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  Trilegal

  Feb 2017 - May 2019

  Senior Consultant- Secretarial & Compliance

  Headed the corporate secretarial practice at Bangalore. Handled various matters ranging from entity formation, liquidations, mergers, re-organisation of capital, ESOPs, diligence, advisory on senior management exits, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, government officials.

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  Axilor Ventures

  May 2019 - Nov 2020

  Compliance Officer

  I lead the legal and compliance team at Axilor. My responsibilities include handling legal aspects of all investments transactions right from term sheet to monitoring post investment compliance activities, extensively involved in drafting, review, negotiations of investment documents, developing and streamlining the processes for our legal and business matters, strengthening internal controls, handling commercial contracts and other agreements and even advising portfolio companies on a range of their legal matters. I am also responsible for handling fund compliances. Show less

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  AkzoNobel

  Dec 2020 - now

  Managing a mid size team spread across two jurisdictions covering HR operations, legal operations and treasury operations. Responsible for stakeholder management, process maturity while maintaining existing service levels, monitor and contribute to new initiatives to expand scope and deliver value to stakeholders. Led a small team to improve processes for maintenance of data in our legal entity management system, set up KPIs, oversee and improve reporting from the system to key internal and external stakeholders, set up governance, oversee reporting on our investigations program, manage, stabilise new processes including legal, compliance and treasury operations.

  • Team Lead- HR, Legal and Compliance

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Team Lead- Legal and Compliance

    Dec 2020 - Mar 2022