In-House Lawyer - Legal Counsel - IT/Telecom/Software Industry

In-house Lawyer (Legal Counsel) with an MNC - LLB/LLM - IT/Telecom/Software Industry

Skills & Qualification :

- Must ; around 15 years of experience (age limit 40yrs)

- Must ; Graduate/Post-graduate in Law from a reputed law school/university.

- Must ; minimum 7 years in IT/Technology/Telecom/Software Multi-National Company as in-house lawyer

- Must ; minimum 7 years in international experience working with foreign law firms

- Must ; Legal experience is drafting/negotiating the Telecom, Software, Services, Wholesale, IPR, Channel Partner, Sales, Partnership, Service Provider/Vendor, JV, Shareholder type of contracts

- He must have the ability to provide legal solution in a commercially feasible manner with business-oriented legal approach.

- He must have the ability to successfully manage the day-to-day legal operations including contract drafting, negotiation and execution with his internal & external customers.

- The selected candidate will be part of the global legal team in Chennai and will handle his entire job without subordinates.

- He may be required to travel within and outside India on need basis, which may not be frequent

Job Description :

- Drafting & review, negotiation & finalization of agreements, especially strategic business contracts with telecom operators, business partners, clients, service providers, consultants, landlords, foreign employees (including key employees), Constitutional documents, Shareholders'/Share Purchase Agreements etc., predominantly outside India in consultant with foreign law firms.

- Discussion & negotiation with internal business and support teams, external legal counsels (especially outside India), legal & business teams of the clients, vendors etc.

- Identification of legal, regulatory and other critical risks in the business & other contracts and advising mitigation efforts.

- Conducting legal due diligence and setting up of business entities outside India, M&A etc.

- Identification & engagement of competent external legal counsels/law firms (especially outside India) and liaison with them for obtaining telecom intermediary licenses, regulatory and other approvals, various legal & compliance related matters, litigation etc., predominantly outside India.

- Handling litigation, arbitration, out-of-court settlements and conciliation with different parties - customers, consumers, vendors, business partners, employees etc., especially abroad.

- Expertise and working knowledge in IPR work (Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents and Domain Names).

- Compliance with data protection/privacy laws (GDPR and similar laws), employment laws, labour code, Information Technology Act etc.

- Implementation of contract management system and maintaining the repository of contracts.

- Analysis of laws and providing legal opinions on different matters.

- Drafting and implementation of corporate policies, guidance notes, manuals etc., for regulatory & contractual compliance.

- Updation of laws applicable to the company and providing an update to the management.

- Compliance monitoring & management.

- Any other work to be assigned to the candidate from time to time.