Hina Jain
Dubai
Summary
Highly skilled legal professional with over 12 years of experience specializing in legal advisory, contract drafting, compliance, and business development. Demonstrated expertise in knowledge management, labor laws, and cross-jurisdictional corporate governance. Adept at driving strategic initiatives and delivering results in dynamic and multicultural environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4034
4034
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Group Legal Counsel
Axiom Telecom
Dubai
08.2022 - 12.2024
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and procurement contracts.
Monitor and ensure compliance with local laws across GCC jurisdictions.
Provide labor law guidance and handle labor-related matters.
Draft corporate by-laws, resolutions, and minutes; assist in restructuring initiatives.
Enhance standard templates while staying updated on UAE commercial and taxation laws.Review, drafting, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial and procurement related contracts - Provide timely updates on the development of legal and policy environments that would have an impact on the business operating in a particular jurisdiction within GCC
- Organize, anticipate and maintain local compliance and monitoring of company's general legal needs
- Provide specific Labor Law advice on all kinds of labor-related matters
- Assist in drafting all corporate by-laws, resolutions, and minutes
- Assist in company restructuring, improve standard templates
- Keeping abreast on the principles of commercial and taxation laws in UAE
Legal Executive
Dubai World Trade Centre
Dubai
11.2021 - 06.2022
- Providing legal support, services and advice to business units, support services and corporate functions across DWTC
- Assisted in review and preparation of contracts and other legal documentation templates such as and other policies in accordance with new Labour Law
- Assisted heavily on revising the Legal Authority Matrix (DOA) and Legal Policy and Procedure across DWTC
- Establishing roles and responsibilities of the LRC and BUs with regards to Compliance [functional oversight/escalation/reporting and operational BU responsibility]
- Worked extensively in revamping and replacing the legal portal with new practice management tool and management for legal instruction
- Creating legal update memo on new labour law, commercial contract law and monthly departmental MIS reports
Tax Senior Consultant
Deloitte India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2020 - 09.2021
- Worked closely with knowledge management team to help disseminate tax updates around 50+ state and local tax jurisdictions of US including legislative, administrative and judicial developments to an entire network of global tax professionals
- Researching, editing and co-authoring articles, news alerts and memos for US multistate tax regime for internal and external platforms, publications and presenting at local office trainings
- Creating matrices for the team on various aspects of taxation for c-corporations, s-corporations, pass through entities and partner credit etc
Content Creator
01.2020 - 06.2020
- Worked as a freelance editor for development and copyediting of books on corporate law, arbitration, labour laws and international taxation with publishing houses like Lexis Nexis, Wolters Kluwer, Oakbridge, Taxmann etc
Senior Legal Editor
Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - 01.2020
- Drafting Author Agreements, Vendor Policy, Master-Service Agreements, Publishing Agreements etc
- Strategizing, developing and enhancing products relating to Company Law, Securities Law, Forex, Arbitration, Competition and Insolvency Laws
- Commissioning titles on Corporate and Allied laws and bringing quality manuscripts/authors onboard
- Working closely with key internal & external stakeholders
- Driving product development and understanding customer requirements, market gaps/ need gaps and driving release of feature choices in launch of online/print product and strategic planning and business development of business
- Imparting trainings to marketing and sales teams of company
- Validating book proposals, researching around the Titles, Competition Analysis, Market Research, monitoring the progress of print products to ensure timely release of the contents, acquisition of new content, commissioning new projects
Legal Associate
KMP PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
05.2012 - 06.2015
- Handling Secretarial Compliances (annual and regulatory filings) of companies incorporated in India
- Advising clients across various functions including Arbitration, FDI and Company law related matters etc
- Drafting Conveyances and other legal documents such as Master Service Agreements, Agreement to Sale, Sale Deed, Developers Agreement, Employment Agreement, Lease Deed, Will, Non- Disclosure Agreement, Disclaimer Agreement, Purchase Orders, Memorandum of Understanding, Letter of Engagement, Relinquishment Deed etc
- Drafting Court Pleadings, Legal Notices and handling independent Court Proceedings before Delhi High Court, District Courts and Tribunals
- Providing consultation and drafting Legal Advice on various aspects of Arbitration, Taxation, Societies Registration, Formation of Trusts, and Creation of Joint Ventures
Education
Master of Business Law -
National Law School
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) -
G.G.S I.P. University
Skills
- Contract Drafting & Negotiation
- Legal Compliance & Advisory
- Labor Law Expertise
- Corporate Governance
- Knowledge Management
- Legal Policy Development
- Training & Content Creation
- Business Development
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Accomplishments
- Won Shout-outs from Global Partner- Deloitte for U.S. state and local tax ballot measure tracking spreadsheet.
- Won Employee of the year- 2016-EDM Excellence Award for Wolters Kluwer.
- Gave lectures on Company Law and Securities Law conducted by The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
- Worked extensively in the area of protection of Human Rights with National Human Rights Commission in 06/11.
Languages
English
Hindi
Custom
Advocate, Bar Council of Delhi, India, D/1913/2012, 05/12
Personal Information
Date of birth: 05/11/90
Timeline
Group Legal Counsel
Axiom Telecom
08.2022 - 12.2024
Legal Executive
Dubai World Trade Centre
11.2021 - 06.2022
Tax Senior Consultant
Deloitte India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2020 - 09.2021
Content Creator
01.2020 - 06.2020
Senior Legal Editor
Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - 01.2020
Legal Associate
KMP PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
05.2012 - 06.2015
Master of Business Law -
National Law School
B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) -
G.G.S I.P. University
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