Edgeverve - Senior Associate - Legal

Job Description:

Minimum Qualification: A Law Degree from a reputed university or law school.

Work Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience. Experience as an in-house counsel will be an added advantage.

Role Details:

Employment: Full-time

Industry: IT industry

Location: Bangalore

Company: EdgeVerve

Key Responsibilities:

- Drafting, structuring, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts (such as Master Services Agreements, Software Licensing Agreement, SaaS Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Business Alliance Partner Agreements, Non-disclosure Agreements, Letter of Engagements etc.)

- Contract negotiations with both internal business teams and clients (across multiple jurisdictions).

- Assisting with RFI/RFP responses and opportunities for the company.

- Providing advice to internal stakeholders on various contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing the risk and proposing appropriate mitigations.

- Collaborate with various internal stakeholders for addressing contractual requirements/queries.

- Support with standardizing processes and templates for efficient and effective delivery of legal support.

- Assist with dispute resolution relating to commercial contracts.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Managing complex contractual matters and independently front-ending client negotiations.

- Conducting relevant knowledge sharing sessions for the team and internal stakeholders.

- Creating and managing legal processes, standard templates and knowledge repositories.

- Advising on various risk management strategies, cross-border legal issues and coordinating with external counsels.

- Training and mentoring of new joiners and junior members of the legal team.

- Ability to provide timely legal advice to the business stakeholders and support with pressing matters and deliverables.

Required skills/competencies:

- Good communication, drafting and research skills.

- Good domain knowledge (including understanding of Commercial, IPR and Data Privacy laws).

- Analytical ability to tap and integrate all relevant data and to quantify all risk elements.

- Ability to represent (internally and externally) the best interests of the organization.