Head - Legal

- To support the legal function at strides and manage legal, compliance, regulatory, contractual, arbitration, secretarial and related processes to help mitigate risk for the organization

Primary Responsibilities :

- Oversee all legal matters for the system and serve as the primary legal advisor to the CFO, the organizations senior management team.

- Lead and manage the Legal, Compliance, Risk Management, Secretarial and Internal Audit functions.

- Advise on major contracts and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and business agreements; regulatory compliance; tax-exempt bonds and other financing agreements; litigation; research and intellectual property matters; health IT policy and systems; labor and employment issues. Pragmatically managing legal risks and being an astute business executive are key components to the position.

- Will provide alternative solutions to minimize liability exposure while achieving business goals. In addition to excellent analytical and legal abilities.

- Evaluate impact of evolving legal and statutory regulations on the organizations current and proposed operations and investments and highlight the same.

- Develop and in-house counsel as well as an external counsel to address legal aspects of Joint Ventures

- Develop dedicated team for trademarks and copyrights to ensure risk mitigation; attend to trademark agreements, work closely with the marketing team to oversee branding and trademark protection.

- Frame policy norms for filing of trademarks and patents and coordinate with the intellectual property team for filing of patents.

- Examine legal requirements related to prospective M&Ss or partnerships as part of due diligence checklist. Preparation

- Review legal implications of proposals made by business development

- Direct team to put in place a compliance system for legal compliance; oversee communication of monthly compliance checklists and escalate to the relevant authorities in case of non-compliance

- Guide the organization in interpretation of laws regarding all aspects of business and corporate life and regulations applicable to the business

- Receive inputs through interaction with user departments on various legal issues including risk involved and their perception of legal risk

- Ensure legal compliance for all outbound investments and setting up subsidiaries of strides, joint ventures etc. like compliance with RBI norms, FEMA, other statutory requirements

- Scrutinize all proposals, contracts, tenders and agreements for legal loopholes and make changes.

- Interface with external customers and business partners on issues of legal interpretation and dispute

- Ensure effective management of all cases-filing of cases monitoring the progress of cases and defending cases and provide timely feedback to the senior Management

Establish a culture of compliance throughout the Business Unit through all forms of advice, communication, role modeling and training. Includes:

- Overseeing corporate governance compliance with law and policy

- Policy interpretation, development and training

- Implementation effective compliance training programs for policies owned by the Legal function.

For Further Details Contact :
Sunil Malekar
Linkedin : in.linkedin.com/in/sunilmalekar

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