Head - Legal - BFSI

Key Task And Responsibilities

Legal Affairs/Litigation/Legal Strategic Planning:

- Spearheading responsibility for managing the gamut of operations pertaining to all legal (Civil & Criminal) matters and instituting systems and legal practices to secure the best interests of the organization.

- Maintaining sustained contact with legal professionals and government officials for initiating and follow-ups on legal procedures and finalizing various legal agreements; planning strategies, facilitating strategy meetings, supervision of other attorneys and managing outside counsels in various civil / criminal proceedings.

- Handling money recovery suits as well as the Negotiable Instrument Act; prosecuting and defending specific matters of Finance, Banking, Labor, and Criminal cases.

- Attending various legal matters handled by the company in High Court, City Civil & Sessions Court, & Small Causes Court, All Magistrate Court, attending arbitration proceedings.

- Conducting extensive research work and finding case laws, handling procedural aspects in various courts, interacting with advocates/solicitors, briefing and giving them instructions and preparing them for trials, etc.

- Advising and assisting for getting License under Shops and Establishment Act.

Corporate Affairs :

- Updating the top management about issues to be discussed in Board meetings, other strategic issues and coordinating with the various departments, monitoring implementation and ensuring compliances to Corporate Governance norms.

- Providing assistance in finalizing terms & conditions of contracts, settlement agreements; performing analysis to ensure that contracts are within negotiated & agreed-upon parameters.

Legal Documentation:

- Structuring, drafting & inspecting the legal documents along with the preparation of Documents, legal agreements.

- Bank Guarantees, Web Agreements, Service Agreements, GPAs and all matters of Transfer of Property Act along with filing / tabulation of the agreements and concerned link documents.

- Drafting and vetting of Various pleadings, petitions, Counters/written statements relating to Civil, Criminal and Consumer matters respectively.

- Drafting and vetting Various agreements like Sale Deeds, Mortgage Deeds, MOUs along with various other documents concerning lease & purchase; lease Agreements / Deeds, Renewals, Issuing Termination Notices, perusal of title of Sale Deeds, verification and various documents.

Compliance:

- Handling various compliance viz Regulatory, Labor and Internal.