Manish Nagia

Manish Nagia is an attorney at Avasant Advisory, India Private Limited at Avasant. Manish has worked as a business consultant at Anaqua, legal associate at Sutherland, and executive-legal counsel at CitiusTech.

At Anaqua, they configured various patents, trademarks and design forms for various jurisdictions in the Intellectual Property Management Software. At Sutherland, they drafted and vetted NDA's for merger & acquisition deals, and also did contract management, due diligence & research. At CitiusTech, they drafted and vetted IT agreements, SaaS agreements, vendor agreements, leave & license agreements, NDA's, notices and memorandum of understanding. Manish also coordinated with teams for filing of trademark and patent in USPTO and Indian IP office.

Manish has also assisted in CoVid-19 SOP Directives for Back-to-office initiative with the help of various State & Central Government circulars. Manish was the admin of KOMRISK Compliance Tool, which handles all the compliances. Manish ensured consistent adherence to Labour regulations and legislation to maintain overall compliance. Manish also coordinated with third party consultants to file various returns under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, Maternity Benefit Act 1961, Shops & Establishment Act and The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970.

Manish has done contract abstraction for various clauses in MSAs and SOWs and uploaded the same on the Central Management System. Manish has also assisted the legal team for RFPs and provision of legal expenses of the legal team. Manish has interpreted laws, rulings and regulations and assisted other departments to resolve various legal issues.

Manish Nagia has a Bachelor of Laws from Gopaldas Jhamatmal Advani Law College, a Bachelor's in Commerce from M.M.K College of Commerce and Economics, and a Higher Secondary Education in Commerce from Smt Mithibai Motiram Kundnani College of Commerce and Economics. Manish also has a Secondary School Certificate from Sacred Heart Boys High School. In addition, they have certification from the World Intellectual Property Organization in General Course on Intellectual Property and from the Government Law College in Cyber Law Course.