Siddarth Menon

A Lawyer by profession who has hands-on Contract Analysis and Project Management experience in the Legal Managed Services and Contract Management world. Recognized for flawless execution and finding solutions to complex problems.Communicative and reliableprofessional polished in developing scopes and objectives and maintaining comprehensive project documentation. Commended for unexcelled record of completing critical projects on schedule and within budget.

Elevate Services,Toronto, Ontario.April 2022 – March 2023

Senior CLM Consultant (ProjectManager) – CLM Implementation

• Managed various Contract Lifecycle Management implementation projects (Icertis, DocuSign,Okta and Azure SSO).
• Managed compleximplementations that includedrequirements traceability, multipleintegrations, data migration, and document migration.

• Created project plans, schedules, and resourceplans with projectmanagement tools like Microsoft Projectusing Agile or Waterfall methodology

• Facilitated design workshops, provided status updates, and led meetings across the executive levels of client organizations.

• Planned and scheduled skills to create a resource loadedschedule to manage criticalpath, costs, task and resource dependencies, risks, and opportunities.

CLM Gurus, Toronto, Ontario. January 2022 – February2022

Project Manager – CLM Implementation

• Successfully managedthe implementation of Contract LifecycleManagement solutions into client organizations on behalf of a service provider/systems integrator.

• End-to-end project ownership from initiation to customer handoverand closure.
• Responsible for projectplanning and resourceallocation.
• Identification and management of risks withinthe project.

Loom Analytics, Toronto, Ontario.April 2019 – December 2021

Product Manager – Structura (Data management platform) & Court Analytics(Litigation analytics tool)

• Worked closed with UI/UX design team and development team to implementContract Lifecycle Management solutions on Structura and automate the contact creationand review process.

• Managed and executed projects involving the development ofBERT (Bidirectional encoder responses from transformers) model to make contextual search on Contracts possible – to significantly reduce review time

• Managed and executeda project to implement Knowledge Graphs on the CLM system

• Drafted company data compliance policies, procedures, standards, and goals
• Lead and subject matter expert (SME) in the legal team, which focuses on building an analytics-as-a- service platformfor Canadian case law analytics.

• Implemented and managed contract analysistools and processes to improve contractcontent, negotiation support and compliance

Morae Global (previously known as Clutch Group LLC), Bangalore, India.                           January2014 - February 2018

Team Lead – Contract Management

• Project Manager and SME on a Master Service Agreement (MSA) Gap Analysis Project for a tier-one global financial institution. Gap Analysis included MSA redlining, summary preparation, and draftingAmendments to the MSAsreviewed.

• Managed a contract lifecycle project for a Swedish audio streaming company.The type of contracts involved in the project was: NDAs, MSAs and Termination Agreements.

• Ensured that signed contractswere communicated to all relevantparties to provide contract visibilityand awareness, interpretation to support the implementation

• Lead and SME for a project involvingdrafting Task Ordersto MSAs.

• Entrusted with business development efforts (deployed to Washington, D.C.,USA for clientmeetings and setting up crucial legal projects/workflow globally).

• Worked from Washington, D.C., USA, as an SME for an ISDA/CSA Contract automation project. Trained newly graduated US lawyerson how to read and interpret Commercial Contracts.

• Skilled in enabling the integration of legal requirements with technology for contract database management and automation.

• Led and managed a fifty-member team involved in the production of memorandums. Memos were drafted by conducting legal research on diverse concepts of law and related judicial decisions outlined by US State Courts and Federal Courts. The project objective was to train the client’sartificial intelligence (AI) powered legal research platform extensively.

• Prepared bi-weekly and monthly reportsfor the clientsto analyze the trends in their projects.

• Prepared internalcost analysis reportsprior to the start of projects to understand the profitability of the engagements.

• Extensive Tool knowledgein Relativity, SpringCMand Ebrevia.
• Acted as a ‘People Manager' for Associates and Senior Associates to assess their year- end performance as well as well-being in the organization.

Fox Mandal and Associates, Bangalore, India.                                          July 2012 - October2013

Associate – Company Secretaries Team

• Managed the portfolio of 22 companiesto help them comply with the provisions of the Indian Companies

Act, Foreign Exchange ManagementAct (FEMA), and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) issues under the ReserveBank of India (RBI).

• Drafted minutesof Board meetingsand Annual generalmeetings for variousPrivate Limited Companies.

• Filing necessaryforms in the Ministry of Corporate affairsportal and correspondence with clients wereother vital responsibilities.

• Helped variousclients incorporate their companies and trusts in India.
  • Represented clientsto defend theirFundamental Rights equivalent to Charter Rights/Bill of Rights on various civil issues.

Dandapani Associates, Cochin, Kerala.                                             August 2011 - July 2012

Associate - Litigation

• Drafted Lease Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements etc.

Osgoode Hall Law School,York University, 2019

• Professional LL.M. in International BusinessLaw.
• Awarded the International Student Entrance Scholarship for strong academicability.

Bar Council of India                                                                                                2011 - Present

• Enrolled and licensed to practice law in India.

B.A. LL.B., Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, 2011