Job Title

Lead / Specialist – Legal

(External)

Job Code

Department/ BU

Legal

Location

Mumbai

Reporting To

Head - Legal

Organizational Description

Job purpose & Scope

Protect the interest of company in a rather complicated business environment, advise the management on day to day legal issues and to legally safeguard the interest of the organization and help for timely achievement the goals of the organization.

Litigation Specialist would work closely with the commercial team, and various business units and other functions on a broad range of legal matters.

Candidate should be capable of exercising independent judgment and management of reasonably complex legal issues and litigations.

Major Areas of Responsibilities

Litigations

• • Assessing dispute threats and opportunities; planning appropriate tactics, and strategies;
  • Legal Research on various Acts and statues.
  • In house drafting of legal documents and pleadings like petitions, plaints, written statements etc. in consultation with  external counsels & by providing all relevant documents / facts etc to our counsel
  • Planning & Strategizing Legal actions by briefing advocates, Senior Counsels.
  • In depth knowledge handling IPR Infringement and passing off actions
  • Good exposure in dealing with Arbitration matters/ NCLT matter and high stake value litigations.
  • Developing unique strategies to reduce OPEX.
  • Evaluating various demands raised by the Authorities & challenging if reqd..
  • Dealing with various courts and Tribunals and Quasi Judicial bodies.
  • To Monitor the settlement of Consumer cases and to ensure customer satisfaction by giving proper reply of the legal notices in case the same is required.
  • Out of court settlements in consumer & recovery cases
  • Recovery initiatives thru mediation
  • Preparing, maintaining and reporting various MIS on litigations

Contracts

• Advising,  Drafting and negotiating  various types of contracts, agreements such as collaboration and JV agreements, NDA, MOU, Deeds, guarantees and indemnities, Master IT agreements, IPR assignments, Lease, Leave and license, mortgage, POA, settlements deeds etc.
• Negotiation of all types of contracts and closure on TAT
• Providing  specialist commercial legal advice for the achievement of commercial objectives,
• Documents archiving  and retrieval
• Minimizing risk and maximizing negotiation strength & opportunities.

Person Specifications

Essential Qualification:

• Candidate should be law graduate with minimum 12-14 years of experience drafting of legal documents and pleadings like petitions, plaints, written statements etc. in consultation with external counsels & by providing all relevant documents / facts etc to our counsel.
•  Advising,  Drafting and negotiating  various types of contracts, agreements such as collaboration and JV agreements, NDA, MOU, Deeds, guarantees and indemnities, Master IT agreements, IPR assignments, Lease, Leave and license, mortgage, POA, settlements deeds etc
• The Candidate should have good understanding of law along with drafting and research skills.
• The Candidate should have Proficiency in English, should be a team player. She/He should be able to perform under pressure.
• Candidate should have a solution finding approach and eye for detail.

Desired Qualification:  LLB / LLM

Experience: 12 - 14 years of experience

Industry Preference:  In house counsel in big corporate

Sr. No.

Functional Competencies

Critical

Desirable

1.

Good IT Skills

YES

2.

Analytical Skills

YES

Sr. No.

Behavioral Competencies

Critical

Desirable

1.

Strong communication skills

YES

2.

Language Skills – English, Hindi

YES

Any specific requirement

• Leadership
• Great Team player
• Good interpersonal skills
• Planning and Delivery
• Good listener and communicator
• Customer oriented
• Quality and improvement orientation
• Attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Sound scientific and technical knowledge
• Good analytical skills