General Manager - Legal - Manufacturing Firm - LLB/LLM

Work Location: Corporate office, Pune

Education requirement: LLB, LLM

Desired skills:

- Minimum Between 15-20 years of experience in Legal.

- Ability to lead function for other subsidiary companies.

- Should be well versed with IP Act-Trademarks, IT Act, CLB (Company Law Board), Liaison with RBI/SEBI, etc.

Role & Responsibilities:

Contracts, claims, dues management:

- Legal settling of claims against the company

- Recovery of dues from customers

- Establishes system that identifies areas of criticality or high risk from a legal perspective and designs contingency plans around each identified element

- Establishes compliance timetable for activities requiring review

- Ensure timely and proactive tax and legal advice on significant transactions, M&As, corporate restructures, and other tax-related initiatives

Compliance with corporate laws:

- Assess and mitigate compliance risk on corporate laws

- Compliance with provisions applicable to the company and all subsidiary companies

- Compliance to tax laws eg: timely fulfillment of all tax obligations by all units of the company

- Compliance with rules and regulations of exchanges

- Keep track of changes in law and regulations that impact the organization

- Establishes an audit process that regularly evaluates the position of the organization in regards to compliance

- Establishes compliance timetable for activities requiring review

- Primary interface with the company's external auditors, lawyers, consultants and investors

- Providing legal advice/counsel in business-related areas

- Researching, analysing, and interpreting proposed and existing laws, statutes, and regulations

- Identifying, monitoring and addressing issues of legal risk

- Structuring, drafting, negotiating and/or approving legal contracts, letters of agreement, policies and other documents

- Representing/advocating for an organization in litigation, arbitration, mediation or other disputes with courts, government agencies, or other legal authorities.

Regulatory Affairs:

- Ensuring the organization is aware of and compliant with legislation and regulations pertaining to the business

- Monitoring/interpreting regulatory developments and determining the impact on business operations and compliance programs

- Compliance implementation

- Regulatory reporting/documentation for internal and external audiences

- Gathering data, preparing, reviewing, and/or approving regulatory compliance documents

Compliance:

- Activities include employee compliance training and ensuring employee completion of all required courses; auditing compliance with programs & procedures, investigating complaints, and verifying that deficiencies are corrected.