Senior Legal Counsel

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Senior Legal Counsel

Reporting to: Senior Director – Legal, India

What this job involves:

• Support legal and compliance matters for our Work Dynamics business in India with primary focus on commercial transactional work
• Advise on, review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts such as consultancy agreements, services agreements, RFPs, design and build contracts, tender responses etc. with clients and vendors, and drafting/managing contract templates
• Identify and manage risk exposures, and delivering proactive, effective and strategic advice for operations in India
• Assist with development of processes to identify and manage legal risks, management of regulatory compliance, ethics and compliance issue management, dispute management, rendering legal training etc.
• Direct interaction with internal clients as well as external parties such as clients, vendors and other third parties.
• Provide other legal support as directed from time to time by Senior Director – Legal, India and in liaison with other colleagues in APAC, as required.

To apply you need to be / have:

Employee specification

• A law graduate from reputable law school with ~7-8 years of PQE
• Prior relevant experience in commercial transactional work in private practice or an in-house position
• Excellent knowledge of Indian laws including but not limited to corporate and commercial laws, labour laws, data privacy laws, real estate laws etc.

Key skills

• Commercially savvy, with a highly responsive, proactive, and solutions-oriented mindset
• Detail oriented and able to simplify the complex
• Be a team player. Able to work well with others and manage stakeholders
• Ability to effectively juggle priorities

Location:

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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