Legal/Regulatory Head - EdTech

A leading, very well funded edtech organisation is looking for a Legal and Regulatory Head.

Responsibilities:

- Ensuring compliance of laws and regulations for all operations in an organization

- Identification of compliance & end-to-end loop closure including managing the communication to concerned stakeholders.

- To ensure that all material legal, secretarial and compliance related issues are approved by in accordance with the requisite laws, policies and guidelines.

- Studying contracts and legal documents to make sure that it is in the organization's interests.

- Participate in the negotiation, drafting, and review of a broad spectrum of commercial contracts, including but not limited to, commercial leases, IP issues, non-disclosure agreements, settlement agreements, vendor agreements

- Performing various tasks related to legal matters in a company

- Providing legal advice and guidance on all kinds of legal matters

- Litigation management, contract archival and retrieval process, audit coordination etc.

- Filing lawsuits in the court for the company

- Studying lawsuits filed by an individual or other business and find appropriate methods to save and ensure minimum loss to the company

- Securing company and it's all possessions from any illegal problems

Requirements :

- Lawyer with a background 10-15 years from a reputed law school

- Strong knowledge about corporate laws and regulations

- Experience in a regulated industry, preferably facing retail and/or SME/MSME customers

- Some key areas on which the person can expect to be engaged (along with external counsel) include fund raising, M&A, drafting of commercial contracts and their negotiation, litigation, IP rights / trademarks.

- Excellent communication and negotiation skills

- Must be well organized, and accurate in work

Skills and attributes:

- Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills

- Strong problem solving and communication abilities; is organized and efficient

- Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things

- Proven ability to meet deadlines in high-paced work environment

- Proficient with multiple technologies

- Company secretaryship qualification is welcome but not mandatory

- Leadership skills to independently source and hire

Location - Mumbai