Manoj Kulshrestha has over 12 years of experience as a legal professional. He is currently a Senior Legal Manager at Sopra Steria, where he is responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial contracts and agreements. Previously, he held legal roles at NIIT Technologies, Infosys, and Innodata Isogen, where he handled tasks such as contract management, litigation, and policy development. He has expertise in areas like contracts, corporate law, IT law, and labor law.

1. MANOJ KULSHRESTHA (Legal Professional)
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Email: manoj_lawpoint@yahoo.co.in
PROFILE
LLB/LL.M with 12+ years of experience with blended exposure of top notch corporate houses, law firms, courts,
forums & arbitration.
Presently working as Sr. Legal Manager in Sopra Steria responsible for Drafting, Review, Vetting, Standardization
& Negotiation of International, Domestic, Government, Semi-Government & PSUs’ agreements & commercial
contracts, risk identify & mitigation, compliance, prepare & implement the policies & procedures. Review pre-
tender, bid & RFP documentation across all Geographies. Handling post execution contractual issues, instrumental
in Corporate Legal Advisory role, Corporate Litigation, Legal Interpretation, Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and
Labour law related issues. Assist Group Level Management to take call on business strategic decisions and internal
issues. Ensure requisite approvals, compliance & modify Group Company’s Standard Operating Procedure.
Worked as Asst. Manager, Legal in NIIT Technologies. responsible for Drafting, Review, Vetting, Analysis, and
Negotiation of commercial, international and Government contracts in a complex legal environment.
Worked as Process Specialist with Infosys Handled Quality and knowledge Improvement, Process Training and
Certification, Contractual Administration & Management, SLA Management, Risk Management, drafting Contracts
and Agreements, Vetting, Audit for Clients, extensive research in areas like contracts Law and various other
commercial laws.
Worked as Legal Quality Analyst with Innodata Isogen, handled NDAs, Employment agreements, Citations,
Training as per client specifications, due diligence, drafting policies & procedures, scrutinize, & supervise the
performance of the Legal Analyst and doing random quality check of processed judgments, precedents, case
laws, legal document & contracts. Co-ordination with client and implementation of project through the team as
per latest updates and directions of the client. Co-ordination between the technical & legal personnel of client
and all Legal Analyst quality team members to ensure smooth formulation of Application as an end result
product to the satisfaction of the client.
Worked with Mr. S. C. Paul, corporate law firm who is associated with many Corporates, MNCs, and Government
Departments & PSUs. Handled corporate litigation matters as an external counsel for all empaneled Banking, IT,
Manufacturing & Real Estate companies with exposure in Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, Trial Courts, National
& State Commission, Consumer Forum, CAT, Labour Courts and Arbitration Tribunal. Routinely handled legal
affairs and litigation matters ranging from criminal cases, civil cases to the corporate and other misc. cases.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Contracts Drafting & Vetting, Contract Management, IPR, Documentation, Corporate Legal Affairs,
Legal Research, Labour Law, Information Technology, Data Protection & Privacy Law, Abstraction,
Contract Negotiation, Govt. Tender, Risk Management, RFPs, Litigation Exposure of all Courts &
Legal Forums, Training, Arbitration, Compliance, Policy & Procedures, Post Contract Execution Legal Support
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sopra Steria, as Sr. Manager Legal at Noida May 2012- Present
Sopra Steria is a company with pro forma revenue of €3.1 billion in 2013 provides IT, consulting, digital expertise & infrastructure
services to its clients’ across various industries like telecommunication, health, Air-line, Real Estate, Infrastructure,
Manufacturing, Law & Enforcement, Banking & Insurance, Roadways etc. etc., and provide excellent products & services of
Highway Traffic Management System (HTMS), Vehicle Tracking & Management System (VTMS), CAD (Computer Aided
Dispatch System), Employee Resource Management System etc. etc.

2. Key Responsibilities:
Draft, review, vet, scrutinize & standardize international, domestic & Government contracts including the Master
Service Agreements; Software Design, Procurement, Development, Customization, Testing, Delivery, System
Integration & Maintenance Agreement; License, Infrastructure, Civil Work, Help Desk, SaaS, Cloud based specific
Agreements; Infrastructure Agreement; Reseller & Distributor Agreements; Vendor Agreements; Service Level
Agreements; Statement of Work; Procurement Agreements; Consortium, MOU, Teaming, Subcontracting &
Partnership Agreement; Data Protection & Confidentiality Agreements; Purchase Orders, Change Control Note,
Bank Guarantee; Parent company guarantee; Indemnity bonds; Employment agreement; Novation agreement;
Escrow agreement; Turnkey Project Agreements; Lease Agreements; Manufacturing Agreements; Addendums and
other complex commercial contracts, and coordinating with clients to monitor the requirements of the clients as per
their specifications.
Review Request for Proposal (RFP), RFQ, Tender, Bid, LOI, POA, FIDIC Orange Book, General & Special Conditions
of the Contract, Corrigendum documents; drafting, review & vetting Government Project Agreements & Bid
Response / Proposal, bid queries & deviations; Ensure Complete Bid Submission Process & help win the award.
Create & upgrade the Standard Agreements, Templates & Check Lists in line with various business requirements &
domains. Maintain depository of all legal documents.
Negotiate the contract with the client ensuring compliance of Group level company’s standard procedures &
guidelines within the accepted risk parameters of the company’s policies / Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
Provide legal support to delivery & operation team during project execution. End to end support for the business
team from the bidding stage till the contract closure.
Drafting legal documents including legal opinion, legal notices, response to show cause notices, petition, claim,
counter, statement or defense & all litigation related documents.
Responsible for maintaining centralized database of all crucial documents as mentioned above in organized manner
with appropriate updated back up.
Contract risk assessment, provide gap analysis & robust risk mitigation plan and accordingly lead the negotiation;
modify the draft contract & prepare requisite proposal; handle OEM related issues.
Advise and recommend courses of action to the management and business teams on legal issues, commercial
transaction structures, risks and company policies and procedures.
Advising on a range of commercial legal & business issues of the subsidiaries & group companies.
Dealing with external & internal stakeholders & vendors on a regular basis interfaces, understanding commercial
aspects of transactions. Pre & post contractual compliances.
Proactively advise and help to manage important changes in law and regulation.
Develop / improve the processes, policies and procedures designed to reduce legal risk and increase efficiency and
to provide training to various stakeholders.
Keep the team informed regarding all new developments in corporate legal arena, and keeps all levels of
management informed of implications of new laws including regulatory compliances.
Participate in various meetings with representative of governmental agencies encompassing all legal & commercial
aspects of the contractual relationship (For various Bid, Tender & RFPs)
Liasoning with external counsels for deciding legal strategies for critical matters.
Labour and Employment issues of the Company.
To act as an In-house Advisor (Group) pertaining to any legal issue including coordinating with HR located globally
concerning complex issues.
NIIT Technologies as Asst. Legal Manager Aug. 2010 – May 2012
NIIT Technologies is a leading IT solutions organization, servicing customers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle Est, Singapore
& Australia. We offer services in Application Development, Operation & Maintenance, Infrastructure Management
Services, Digital Services & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to enterprises in the Banking, Financial, Air Line, Railways,
Manufacturing, Health, Hospitality, Insurance, Travel, Manufacturing and Distribution, and Government sectors.

3. Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Contract Management including Drafting, Review, Analysis, and Negotiation of commercial,
international and/or government contracts across all territories. Worked for various verticals like Airlines,
Travel & Transport, Health, Banking and Insurance, Government, Media Technologies, Manufacturing and
Distribution, etc…
• Reviewing of RFPs, RFQs, RFIs and identifying the risks associated thereof to respective stakeholders,
proposing revised languages to existing clauses, negotiating with Customer and getting requisite approvals
before execution.
• Act as contract liaison between the company and customers, including participation in pre-contract discussions,
contract negotiations, and contract changes, contractual escalations, and issue/compliance resolution
Infosys as Process Specialist, Legal Nov. 2009 – Aug. 2010
Infosys BPO Ltd., the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Ltd. (NYSE: INFY), was set up in April 2002. It primarily
focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients world-wide through reduced costs,
ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering.
Key Responsibilities:
Drafting various legal documents including Agreements, Memorandum of Understanding. Also vetted & drafted
partnership, contract, lease agreements among others.
Working on work orders, contractual and non-contractual liabilities, work liabilities, dealing with national and
international clients.
Co-ordinate with Business Unit team, help them to executes contractual arrangement as per the agreed schedule &
guidelines in order to meet targets & respective milestones
Contractual Administration & Management.
Bring up-front the risks in current or executed agreements and making strategy to mitigate the risks in order to
reduce the liability exposure of the company.
Quality Knowledge & Continuous Improvement Management.
Ensuring Legal Compliances of the Client through preparing checklists, compliance calendars etc.
Builds bridge with internal business team and the customers by understanding & responding to their needs &
acting as trusted legal advisor to meet their expectations.
Extensive Research in Areas like contract Law and various other commercial laws.
Conduct training of the team to ensure right skilling & as a part of growth plan. Conducting certification
process tests as per the requirement of the client for the new resources deployed in-to the process.
Big volume contracts Audit report submission.
Innodata Isogen as Legal Associate Aug. 2007- Nov. 2009
Innodata Inc. is an American company that provides business process, technology and consulting services. The company also
provides products that aim to help clients create, manage, use and distribute digital information. Innodata has a client base that
includes many preeminent media, publishing and information services companies, as well as enterprises in information intensive
industries such as aerospace defense, government, healthcare, high technology, insurance, intelligence manufacturing and law.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring that all QMS processes identified are defined, established, implemented and maintained.
As a Legal Quality Analyst handled the team of seven Legal Case Analyst.

4. Scrutinize, & supervise the performance of the Legal Analysts and doing random quality check of processed
judgments, precedents, case laws, legal document & contracts.
Co-ordination with client and implementation of project through the team as per latest updates and directions
of the client.
Co-ordination between the technical & legal personnel of client and all Legal Analyst team members to ensure
smooth formulation of Application Tool as an end result product to the satisfaction of the client.
S. C. Paul Corporate Law Firm March 2002 – Aug. 2007
A leading corporate law firm providing legal consultancy and handling litigation on various matters related to Corporate,
Banking, SARFAESI, Arbitration, Business Laws, Contract, Properties, Labour Laws, Real Estate, Consumer Protection, Bail
& other Criminal Matters etc..., the firm being empaneled with various Companies and MNCs across industries like Real Estate
& Manufacturing Companies, Private and Nationalized Commercial Banks & Financial Institutions and Government
Departments like Delhi Jal Board, TRAI, U.O.I. RSRTC, Allahabad & Banaras Hindu University etc. etc..
As an external counsel support to overall functions to legal departments of empaneled companies viz., drafting of
various Agreements, Real Estate Acquisition & Dispositions, Agreement to Sale, Lease Deeds (Commercial and
Residential), Infrastructure Contract, EPC contract, Construction Contracts, Building & Housing Societies
Maintenance Agreements, Settlement Agreement, Partnership Deeds, Consortium, Subcontract, Addendums,
Registration of Property, Scrutiny of Various legal documents like property search report, Power of Attorneys,
MOU, Bonds, Guarantee, easements, license agreements etc. etc..
Handled all types of legal matters with presence in Supreme Court, High Court, Trial Courts, Consumer Forums,
State Commission & National Commission, MACT, MRTP, CAT, DRT & Arbitration.
Handle various issues relating to civil, corporate, commercial, criminal, insurance and compliance.
Drafting Special Leave Petition, Writs, Counter & Rejoinder Affidavit, Appeals, Caveat, Suits, Petitions &
Complaints, FIR & legal notices, and response on legal notices.
Review RFP/Tender/EOI & corrigendum documents & due diligence of legal documents.
Drafting legal opinions based on in depth legal research & analysis on various legal quandaries raised by the clients
and corporate department.
Conduct legal due diligence of the property matters & recovery of debt matters.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Going Extra Mile Award by Steria: provided by HR Director (Group Steria -UK & India) for contribution in
contract drafting within critical timelines.
Recognition of A+ category by CFO in NIIT: for outstanding performance.
Scroll of Honour Presented by All India Council of Jurists.
Personal Appearance in many cases before Supreme Court & Delhi High Court.
Certification on ‘Commercial Contract and Implication of Mismanagement’ by KPMG
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
Master of law (LL.M)- 2012
PGD in Corporate Law & Management- 2005
Master in Political Science- 2004
Bachelor of Law (LL.B)- 2002
B. Sc. (Maths)- 1998