Vaishnavi Bhaskaran

Vaishnavi is an corporate lawyer with fourteen years of experience in a wide variety of areas. She has assumed both external advisory roles along with having experience as in-house counsel and has a keen understanding of business and technology. Over her career, she has provided a broad range of legal advice to clients across numerous industries and sectors and matters as wide-ranging as commercial contracting, labour and employment advisory and documentation, data protection, business structuring and investments and private equity transactions.

Over the years, Vaishnavi has worked with a number of businesses at the forefront of technology and innovation and has successfully navigated the intersection between business and the legal framework.

Most recently, she was Director of Legal at Locus, a SAAS-based transport management system where she was responsible for the company’s legal operations globally.

Indicative experience

Commercial advisory

Advised the following clients:

• a leading cab-aggregator company on its early legal documentation including terms of service, privacy documentation as well as partner and vendor agreements;
• the Indian division of one of the world’s foremost consumer apparel brands;
• a B2B network of pharmaceutical and medical products, where she advised the company on a range of issues including handling all of the client’s contracts and agreements, providing legal opinions on a range of subjects as well as advising the Company and its promoter on fundraises;
• a co-living platform on its structuring and legal documentation;
• a technology-based retail-enabling company on its structuring and provided necessary legal support for its day-to-day operations;
• a leading marketplace of financial products on commercial agreements;
• a prominent home and industrial appliances manufacturer on its commercial agreements;
• a two-wheeler shared mobility company on its setup and other legal requirements;

 

Private equity & venture capital

Acted on behalf of the following long-time clients on their fundraising activities:

• Plasmagen Biosciences Private Limited on receipt of an investment of Rs. 167 crore (USD $26 million);
• Unbox Robotics Private Limited its Series A investment;
• AtomX Corporation Private Limited, a cashless payments platform on an investment by Bookmyshow.

 

In-house experience

• As Director of Legal at Locus, a SAAS-based transport management system with global operations, the company’s legal function and operations were managed by her, which included a) customer-facing activities; b) tech and product advisory; c) advising management and HR; d) addressing investment and investor-related requirements; e) privacy and data security; f) managing corporate compliance; and g) overseeing litigation and dispute resolution strategies and liaising with external counsel.
• A secondment to a Fortune Global 500 company engaged in the design and manufacturing of construction machinery in 2011;
• A secondment to a leading Indian business process management company in 2012.
• Oversaw a secondment to one of India’s major e-commerce platforms;
• Oversaw secondments to two of the country’s leading digital payment providers.