Milind Talegaonkar completed the NUJS diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws in 2015 and he is a qualified Company Secretary from ICSI and is currently looking after legal and company secretarial functions of  a pharmaceutical firm based in Ahmedabad.

We asked Milind how the course helped him so far in his career, and he had very interesting things to talk about. We decided to share his experiences with the course. Over to Milind:

When I took up the course, I already had around 14 years of industry experience and was working with a leading pharmaceutical as Manager- CS and Legal. I wanted to hone my skills and that is why I joined the NUJS diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws.

I felt there is a gap between the application of knowledge and what is taught in management courses or even CS. I was looking for something which would help me to put the concepts I learnt into practice.

I saw an online advertisement of this course and decided to do it because I found this course to be fit for the purpose of gaining practical knowledge of law. Secondly, NUJS is one of the premier national law schools of India and the prospect of getting a diploma from them was an added attraction.

My purpose of joining the NUJS diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws was totally fulfilled. Content wise the course is very good. Especially the chapters related to how agreements are to be drafted and vetted, what are the precautions to be taken, how clauses can be negotiated etc.

This diploma course taught me the non-commercial aspects of drafting an agreement and to negotiate them. When things go wrong and agreements need to be referred, the clarity of agreement helps a lot. So when I draft agreement with this kind of knowledge and meticulous attention. It is acknowledged and appreciated by the management.

Although I’m not from a legal background I look after litigation related to trademarks for my present company and the practical knowledge of law gained through the NUJS diploma helps me in performing this task with ease.

I found the module on business structuring to be very helpful because in my current organization there is often a need to create an offshoot and decision has to be taken about its structure based on factors like taxation, flexibility of operations, ease of regulations, etc. So what I learnt in the module on business structuring comes handy to me.

The valuation side of the equity and the start up structure, criteria to be evaluated while arriving at decisions, FDI and compliance, etc. were outstanding part of this course.

I have mentioned the NUJS diploma in my LinkedIn profile as well as my CV and I feel that the skills gained from this course have helped me perform better in my current job.

I would recommend this diploma to anyone who is willing to enhance his/her knowledge. Especially to anyone who is dealing with law, even if the person is not from a law background. I would especially recommend this to entrepreneurs as they take decisions at macro level and consequences of their decision going wrong would have a major impact. It is important that they have the basic understanding of laws.