Job Purpose/ Description : We are looking for a Manager - Legal responsible for overseeing all legal matters within the organisation and protecting the organisation's interests in legal matters. She also ensures that the department adopts innovative and technological solutions to enhance productivity and efficiency while maintaining compliance with legal requirements. She ensures that we can continue to have our edge in being able to offer innovative debt products like venture debt, quasi-equity, structured debt products in addition to plain vanilla term and working capital loans. Duties and Responsibilities : - Manager - Legal is responsible for corporate legal, legal operation and debt resolution functions. She will have a team and outsourced legal firms to execute the duties. - S/he needs to adhere to and ensure adherence to legal practices and processes outlined for NBFCs by regulators and courts. Corporate Legal Activities: - Determine the strategies for internal and external legal advisory approaches and the scope of legal advice offered to stakeholders - Providing general legal and operational support to the organization for - Ensuring compliance with the RBI Regulations; - Carrying out data updates on various regulatory platforms (Eg: CRILC, CKYC, NESL etc) - Validating loan structures and regulatory compliance. - Support the ongoing monitoring, operational, and legal functions of the investment team on legal matters. - Filing and compliance for legal matters. - Keeping the management updated with recent developments on legal procedures as directed by regulators and courts - Drive legal technology and innovation adoption within the organization - Oversee the selection of, payments to and relationships with external counsels - Conduct ongoing assessments on external counsels performance and alignment on external counsel's understanding to execution strategies - Facilitate decision making for litigation and/or investigation activities based on defined legal strategies and available data Lending legal operations and processing legal documents: - Drafting and improving loan agreement template. - Drafting and vetting of all legal contracts for the company. - Supporting execution of new loan agreements, as well as amendments to existing loan agreements and corresponding administration, Issuance of NOC, NDAs, waivers, and other agreements; - Liaising with Investment Managers, Risk Managers and Loan Operations Teams develop and process new deal structures and also implement amendments/waivers and other supplemental deal documents post-disbursement; - Handling of legal documentation negotiation on legal clauses and execution of documents with the borrowers and lenders - Reviewing all types of legal agreements that are required for various purposes. - Ensuring correctness of data in the Loan Management System - Responsible for document safekeeping with the help of partners. Debt Resolution: - Identifying and liaising with appropriate service providers for carrying out Debt Resolution for Caspian Debt. - Representing Caspian Debt in legal matters related to debt resolution - Handling correspondence with external parties, lenders, coordination of legal requests; - Liaising with the internal departments as well as borrowers, notaries, external counsel, service providers, etc. - Supporting the ongoing monitoring, operational, and legal functions of the investment team. - Drafting, reviewing, releasing of legal notices for debt resolution - Maintaining and updating an MIS with the status of debt resolution Qualifications Qualifications that are necessary for someone to be considered for the position. - Experience: A minimum of 6-8years of experience in the legal department of an NBFC, or a bank or debt fund. Should have experience in contract drafting and vetting. Preference will be given to those who have worked in venture debt, structured debt products, securitization, debentures, subordinated debt for corporate lending or corporate SME lending or venture debt verticals of banks, NBFC and funds. - Education: LLB or equivalent - Specialized knowledge /Skills: NBFC / Bank/AIF - Professional Certification/Training on: Securities - Abilities: - Highly team-oriented and results-driven - Clear written and spoken communication - Strong appetite for learning new things - In-depth knowledge of relevant law and best practices Travel requirements : Yes Direct reports : Two team members. In addition, support from external legal firms will need to be managed. Caspian Debt : Caspian Debt is a specialized debt vehicle backed by reputed investors like SIDBI Venture Capital, Gray Ghost Ventures (USA), FMO (Dutch Govt Development Finance Institution), DFC (USA), and Triodos Investment Management, apart from its promoter Caspian Equity. Over the past 7 years, Caspian Debt has provided debt finance of about INR 20.6 Bn to more than 160 small and medium corporate entities and startups across several high impact sectors like food & agribusiness, financial inclusion, healthcare, clean energy, education, drinking water, etc. Caspian Debt takes an investment approach to lending. Our loan ticket sizes range between INR 0.5-150 million. We provide a wide variety of financial products which include term loans, working capital, purchase order finance, bill discounting, receivables finance, revolving limits, venture debt, subordinated debt, guarantees, quasi-equity, etc. Unlike traditional lenders, Caspian Debt does not make lending decisions based on mortgage collateral but instead, depends upon business data and customised product structuring to make loans to high impact companies. Caspian Culture : Caspian promotes meritocracy and is an equal opportunity employer. You will be an important part of our organization and will have a key role in our continuing success. Working as a team is critically important at Caspian. Our organization is lean and requires efficient solutions, unencumbered by excessive bureaucracy. As a result, we work together to find the most innovative answers, maintaining a very entrepreneurial environment. We encourage you to visit our website at https://www.caspiandebt.in/ for more information on the firm.

Hyderabad

Caspian Impact Investments - Manager - Legal - LLB/LLM 

Caspian Impact Investments - Manager - Legal - LLB/LLM  ,Job Description for Caspian Impact Investments - Manager - Legal - LLB/LLM  in Caspian Impact Investment Adviser Private Limited in  Hyderabad for (6-8) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Caspian Impact Investments - Manager - Legal - LLB/LLM  in Caspian Impact Investment Adviser Private Limited in  Hyderabad for (6-8) years of experience. Apply Now!