About the Client

Our client is a fast-growing EdTech startup focused on building scalable, technology-driven learning solutions. As the organization continues to expand rapidly, it is strengthening its governance, compliance, and legal frameworks to support sustainable growth, investor confidence, and regulatory excellence.

Role Overview

The Head Legal & Company Secretary will lead the legal, compliance, and corporate secretarial functions for the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for building scalable legal processes, ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance, supporting fundraising and investor relations, and enabling business growth through strong governance and risk management.

The role offers high visibility with senior leadership, the Board, and investors, and is critical to the clients next phase of scale.

Key Responsibilities

Legal & Compliance Operations

- Manage day-to-day legal advisory and compliance requirements across the organization

- Establish and standardize legal frameworks, workflows, and internal controls

- Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, and contractual obligations

- Track evolving laws applicable to the EdTech, education, and fintech ecosystem

Contract Management

- Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, MSAs, SaaS agreements, vendor contracts, partnerships, licensing, leases, and LOIs

- Create and maintain standard contract templates and approval workflows

- Conduct periodic contract audits to mitigate commercial and legal risks

- Support business teams on contract interpretation, renewals, and amendments

Corporate Secretarial & Statutory Compliance

- Ensure compliance under the Companies Act, 2013 and allied regulations

- Manage Board, Committee, and General Meetings, including agendas, resolutions, minutes, and filings

- Maintain statutory registers and ensure timely ROC filings

- Coordinate with auditors and consultants for statutory and secretarial compliance

Fundraising & Investor Compliance

- Support fundraising transactions including term sheets, SHAs, SSAs, and side letters

- Ensure compliance with FEMA, FDI, RBI, and related regulatory frameworks

- Coordinate legal due diligence with external counsel and investor legal teams

- Track and manage post-investment obligations and shareholder compliances

IPO & Capital Markets Readiness

- Support compliance and documentation groundwork for future IPO or capital market initiatives

- Coordinate with advisors for disclosures, filings, and draft offer documents

- Build governance and compliance processes aligned with listed-entity standards

Policy Framework & Risk Management

- Draft and implement internal policies including POSH, Whistleblower, Code of Conduct, Ethics, and Data Privacy

- Conduct internal compliance audits and risk assessments

- Develop and maintain risk registers and compliance dashboards

- Drive corrective actions and adoption of best practices

Litigation & Dispute Management

- Handle pre-litigation notices, consumer complaints, regulatory notices, and disputes

- Liaise with external counsel on litigation strategy, settlements, and enforcement

- Maintain dispute trackers and provide regular status updates to leadership

Intellectual Property Management

- Oversee filing, protection, and renewal of trademarks, copyrights, patents, and domains

- Advise teams on IP usage, licensing, and infringement risks

- Maintain IP registers and develop internal IP guidelines

Team & Stakeholder Enablement

- Lead and guide the internal legal and compliance team

- Provide training to internal stakeholders on legal and compliance topics

- Act as a trusted legal advisor to business, finance, HR, and product teams

Qualifications & Experience

- LLB from a reputed institution; Company Secretary qualification preferred

- 8 - 10 years of experience in corporate legal, compliance, and secretarial roles

- Strong exposure to contracts, statutory compliance, fundraising, and governance

- Experience working with high-growth startups, EdTech, or technology-led companies preferred

- Hands-on experience building scalable legal processes and frame