Specialist Legal, 8 to 14 years in Mumbai

Job Description

• 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
• Assist in developing standard Templates for commercial contracts/ agreements that can be conveniently used by different stakeholders
• Assist in providing proactive and innovative legal advice on complex, and in some cases sensitive, contract issues to mitigate potential legal risks to the business.
• Coordinating with business Heads / HO Ds to ensure that relevant clauses of contracts / agreements address the requirements expected by the company.
• Providing advisory services in reviewing policies, and other mandates, to ensure compliance with applicable legal requirements, mitigating reputational risk, and reducing exposure to legal liability
• Providing specialist commercial legal advice for the achievement of commercial objectives,
• Documents archiving and retrieval
• Minimizing risk and maximizing negotiation strength & opportunities.

• 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
• Drafting / reviewing pleadings and other documents.
• Tracking and managing ongoing litigations. Help implement software systems / trackers for litigation updates.
• Drafting notices, replies or other legal documents.
• Preparing notes for the management.
• Effectively managing external counsels.
• Reduce litigation costs for the Company.

• 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
• 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.
• 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.

• Good IT Skills
• Analytical Skills    

• Strong communication skills
• Language Skills - English, Hindi

• 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