Legal Counsel & Company Secretary - Retail

We are looking for a Legal Counsel and Company Secretary for one of the leading client in retail Industry.

Location: New Delhi

Qualification: LL.B with Associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Experience: Post qualification experience of 4-5 years

Objectives

To ensure 100% compliance of all the law and regulation applicable to the company and to safeguard the company interest.

Responsibilities

- Drafting, vetting and negotiating lease agreement, leave and license agreement with various landlord / mall operator for various Company owned stores.

- Ensuring legal compliances with all the regulatory aspect applicable to retail operation of the company.

- Providing legal service to various Brands with drafting of various agreements like franchising agreement, Retail Agreement for shop in shop stores and Multi branded stores, License Agreement.

- Drafting, vetting and negotiating all the commercial contracts, including, Joint venture Agreement, Contracts, lease agreement, Indemnity Bonds and Service provider agreement, NDA, MOU, engagement letters for hiring services of statutory auditors and other consultants and other ancillary agreements etc.

- Drafting of Board/ Annual General Meeting Minutes, Directors Report, ensuring 100% Secretarial compliance.

- Maintenance and updating of various Statutory Registers & Records and submission of the statutory returns, documents with Registrar of Companies, Reserve Bank Of India.

- Coordinating and providing all the information required for Transfer Pricing Study and 3CB Audit. Reviewing any Permanent Establishment exposure Issue under the Indian Transfer Pricing Rules.

- Reviewing the regular submissions filed before the Income tax authorities by the consultants on regular assessment cases and appeal cases. Follow up with all the cases pending before the Income tax authorities.

- Ensuring proper declaration/documents filed before the customs authorities, Coordinating for all the refund application filed before the customs authorities., exposure to Special Valuation Branch (SVB) Order

- Ensuring Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of the Group Companies through filling of opposition and follow up the external lawyers. Serving notices and replying to notices involving Infringement of trademark rights, etc. Initiate and coordinate anti -counterfeiting activities

- Interaction with various Government Agencies like Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Department of Industry Policy & Promotion( DIPP), Reserve Bank of India, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Registrar of Companies, Registrar of Trade Mark, Company Law Board, Standard Weights and Measurement Department, etc.

- Ensuring legal compliance with respect to importations, distribution and retailing of the watches e.g compliance with Standard Weights and Measurement Act and Package Commodity Rules.

- Ensuring proper compliances with the statutory requirements and coordinating with the panel counsels for monitoring various cases.

- Some experience of handling litigation's (Consumer/recovery/Criminal cases / Cheque bouncing, etc).