Kotak Mahindra - Manager/Senior Manager - Legal - LLB

Key Responsibilities:

The incumbent would be responsible for providing legal support on various transactions involving corporate restructuring, private equity, corporate financing, fund raising, regulatory and other general corporate matters.

Legal Support would involve

- Drafting, vetting, and reviewing of various contracts and other transaction documents and other works incidental and ancillary to any of the transactions including risk analysis.

- Attending negotiation meetings with counterparties, their representatives.

- Liaising with advocates, solicitors, law firms, counter parties and consultants.

- Providing support to other business functions as and when required.

- Providing timely guidance on changes in the statutes, and matters of business importance and ensuring compliance

- Providing high quality, independent and commercially relevant legal advice.

- Any additionally role and responsibilities in the profile as may be required.

Job Requirements:

- Must be a Law Graduate from a top law school with strong academic track record and a post qualification experience of at least 4-7 years.

- Prior relevant experience in a top-tier law firm or financial services industry with similar role including banks, Non- Banking Finance Companies, Asset Reconstruction Companies, Private Equity Firms.

- Strong knowledge of banking, finance, insolvency and bankruptcy laws and general corporate laws.

- Basic understanding of civil and criminal laws, information technology laws, Stamp Act, Indian Trust Act among others.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills along with strong negotiation skills.

- Strong commercial sense and business acumen - ability to critically analyze and consider issues including legal/commercial risk involved.

- Ability to independently handle assigned work

- Willing to travel to locations across the country to attend to matters assigned.