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‘Miles to Go Before We Sleep’: The Story of Sai and His Sand Legal

‘Miles to Go Before We Sleep’: The Story of Sai and His Sand Legal
THE ‘DNA’ OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

What do you say about an entrepreneur, whose company boasts of projects in 7 countries in its short corporate existence of merely 3 yrs. Adjectives like passionate, driven, confident etc. are unable to do justice to the spirit of B. Sai Chandravadhan, Managing Director, Sand Legal Pvt. Ltd. The true description may be in terms of a single minded devotion to one’s craft. An all-weather perseverance towards the realization of one’s potential also inspires his team.

Sai started typically as a litigation lawyer at Madras High Court in the offices of Nalini Chidambaram and spent more than a decade doing that. But as it is true for all ambitious and restless souls, and the role of a lawyer being far more than just within the haloed court halls, he moved to compliance management. He feels more of a social engineer in compliance management as it touches the governance of businesses and also reaches out to address the various societal issues for which transactional laws have been enacted. His experience as head of MyVakil.com and later on as Vice President of Chess Management Services Private Limited helped him realize his potential.

‘TRAIN HARD, WIN EASY’

All of Sai’s professional life, of about twenty years, has gone into shaping and sharpening his tools. That he has done by dealing with almost all sorts of industries including Real Estate, Construction, Infrastructure, Automobile, Steel, Oil, Petroleum, Health Care, Tobacco, Insurance, Chemicals, Fertilizers and Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, Consumer Goods and retail, Engineering, Cement, Telecommunications, IT & ITES, Financial Services and Media. He has successfully concluded several projects for some of the top five hundred companies in India. And this multi-industry exposure has constituted the soul of his signature style which he calls ‘process oriented legal research’. This approach has helped him in creatively arranging the bouquet of services offered by his company.

DEVIL RESIDES IN DETAIL

Be it, ‘Global Legislative Compliance Services’, ‘Contract Management’ or ‘Legal Due Diligence’, the core belief being ‘devil resides in detail’ Sand Legal has adopted horses for courses approach for all three services as far as ‘detail’ is concerned. For example for contract management it is the written contractual terms, for Global legislative compliance it is detailing the miniscule compliance tasks applicable to various industries in different countries in which they may be operational. In due diligence it is the negative art of drilling in deep to find out the issues which can set a business deal at naught.

So, Sand Legal treats its words very seriously and uses them very carefully and takes care of the words of its clients wherever they are supposed to be used. And this fealty to risk management drives all three of Sand Legal’s services.

TEAM SAND LEGAL: A BUNCH OF INSPIRED PROFESSIONALS

The Sand Legal compliance audit team is multi-skilled with people from accounting, corporate, industrial, labor, social security and environmental law background all part of the internal team, running on process driven projects to highlight risks focused on non-compliances that have noncompound able high risk penalties. A database of laws across geographies, efficient in-house legal professionals and a network of lawyers, technologists and software developers work as a team to provide seamless compliance risk management services. In addition, Sand Legal has covered almost all 50 States in the US in it’s Global Legislative Compliance projects along with countries such as the UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, Mexico and almost all the States in India.

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