Legal Counsel & Company Secretary - Retail

Looking out for Legal Counsel & Company Secretary

Range of Responsibilities - Legal & Secretarial

Objectives:

To ensure 100% compliance of all the law & regulation applicable to the company and to safeguard the company interest.

Responsibilities:

- Drafting, vetting and negotiating lease agreement, leave and license agreement with various landlord/mall operator for various Company owned stores.

- Ensuring compliances with all the regulatory aspect applicable to retail operation of the company.

- Drafting, vetting and negotiating all the commercial contracts, including, Joint venture Agreement, Contracts, lease

agreement, Indemnity Bonds and Service provider agreement, NDA, MOU, engagement letters for hiring service of statutory auditors and other consultants and other ancillary agreements etc.

- Drafting of Board/ Annual General Meeting Minutes, Directors Report, ensuring 100% Secretarial compliance.

- Maintenance and updating of various Statutory Registers & Records and submission of the statutory returns,documents with Registrar of Companies, Reserve Bank Of India.

- Ensuring proper declaration/documents filed before the customs authorities, Coordinating for all the refund application filed before the customs authorities, exposure to Special Valuation Branch (SVB) Order.

- Ensuring Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of the Group Companies through filling of opposition and followup the external lawyers.

- Serving notices and replying to notices involving Infringement of trademark rights etc.

Initiate and coordinate anti -counterfeiting activities

- Interaction with various Government Agencies like Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Department of Industry Policy & Promotion ( DIPP), Reserve Bank of India,Directorate

- General of Foreign Trade, Registrar of Companies, Registrar of Trade Mark, Company Law Board, other local authorities, etc.

- Ensuring legal compliance with respect to importations, distribution and retailing of the watches e.g compliance with Legal Metrology Act and Package Commodity Rules.

- Ensuring proper compliances with the statutory requirements and coordinating with the panel counsels for monitoring various cases.

- Some experience of handling litigations (Consumer/recovery/Criminal cases / Cheque bouncing, etc).

Hierarchy - up- (to whom is the job holder reporting to):

- Legal Counsel

- Legal Counsel responsible for India - (Legal Department), Switzerland

Relationships:

- Internal

All the employees of the company

- External

Lawyers, Consultants, Auditors, Local authorities

Qualification:

LL.B with Associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Experience:

Post qualification experience of 5-7 years