Chief Legal Counsel - FMCG/Manufacturing/Industrial/Consumer Goods - LLB/LLM

Designation: Chief Legal Counsel

Location: Gurgaon

Details about the role:

Overall Purpose: The incumbent will be responsible for leading the Legal function for company In addition, incumbent will also provide Legal Functional Leadership to other sister concern companies as required.

Reporting : Position Reports to Group CFO

Direct Reportees : approx.. 4-5 member team at present.

Other Group Company CLOs will have a dotted line reporting to the incumbent.

All Plant Legal resources will have a dotted line reporting

Focus areas

- Dealing with external Legal Firms, lawyers and other external stakeholders

- All matters pertaining to ongoing and future litigation

- Providing Legal advice and leadership to all 30+ Plants in India to ensure compliance's and all other legal matters

- FSSAI, Drug adulteration laws, terms of sales deeds along with an experience in IPR and trademarks.

- Weights and Measurement Act

- Vehicles Act

- Real estate - Rent agreements, etc

- Acts relevant for Plants - Factories Act/Boiler Act/Electrical Act

- Laws pertaining to Sustainability

- Exposure to Criminal and Civil Laws

- Commercial Law

Role & Responsibilities

- Developing and leading corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company's matters on all existing & potential issues.

- Ability to analyze legal implications of various issues and advising multifarious internal stakeholders and management on it.

- Maintaining proper corporate interactions with the relevant local and state government bodies, legislatures and the community at large.

- Identifying potential legal risks and assessing the issues impacting those risks thereby building a resolution strategy.

- Conceptualizing, developing & implementing highly efficient systems to formulate general management policy & internal governance policies to regularly monitor compliance.

- Responsible for litigation, legal notices, keeping records of all licenses, compliance's and all litigation matters.

- Reviewing progress of outstanding litigation, providing strategic and operational legal guidance on ongoing legal cases, applicable contracts etc.

- Drafting and vetting of various contracts, negotiations, commercial settlement agreements & cross-border Agreements including arbitration matters.

- Preparing, reviewing and modifying legal documents/contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities/functional departments.

- Preparing monthly and quarterly reports for the legal department for management meetings.

- Ensuring all allegations of legal misconduct are reported in a timely manner to the executive team in an attempt to maintain integrity within the business.

- Liaising with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.

- Support filing of cases & defend cases filed against Company - criminal & civil.

- Handle consumer case notices, recovery, defamation, attend court & liaison with advocates.

- Handle situations in an unstructured set-up; capable of setting up systems & taking it forward.

Desired Candidate Profile

- A Bachelors/Master's degree in Law.

- Relevant experience of minimum 20 - 25 years out of which at least 5 years with a law firm of repute and with a proven track record.

- Should have sound knowledge of Legal matters of various Indian Labor Laws, Corporate Law etc.

- Should have hands-on experience in domestic business & not only into advisory role.

- Familiar with FSSAI, Drug adulteration laws, terms of sales deeds along with an experience in IPR and trademarks preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies with Full comprehension of the influences of the external environment of a corporation.

- Should have been working as a Legal Head of a listed Public Limited Company.