Manager - Legal - Hotel

Roles and responsibilities:

- Providing a comprehensive and high quality in-house legal service, across a broad range of legal issues to internal customers within the organization, ensuring all activities are in line with legal requirements and risks are mitigated appropriately and including contracting out of work to external empanelled law firms as appropriate, whilst retaining overall responsibility for delivery

- Ensure compliance with all laws/rules/regulations etc. by spreading awareness about the same so as to safeguard the client and group companies from potential litigation.

- Sound knowledge of drafting, vetting, all types of agreements, mous (including lease, leave & license)and other documents;

- Handling Legal matters with special focus on IP and Labour Criminal and Civil litigation matters.

- Well conversant with the Litigation Process (various stages of court cases) for Recovery Suits, 138 matters, drafting legal notices.

- Advise and update senior management on all legal matters

- Advice and participate in major litigation cases

- Oversee due diligence for acquisition and lease of properties

- Liaise and coordinate with Lawyers, regulatory bodies etc.

- Negotiate and finalize legal terms in important contracts

- Overseeing the Intellectual Property Rights administration-Trademark and Copyright registrations, fillings, opposition and management to help build the Intellectual Property Rights bank for the Company.

Qualifications and Experience :

- Law Graduate with 6-12 years of work experience

- Excellent legal skills, including drafting and negotiating contracts and strategic management of contractual disputes.

- Ability to apply expertise to a range of legal issues.

- A can do attitude with a readiness to roll your sleeves up and get down to tackling and resolving issues and producing excellent outcomes.

- Excellent written and oral communications, including the ability to work effectively with a range of people and the ability to deliver advice in a clear and user-friendly way.

- Entirely self-motivated, self-sufficient, providing the engine room and energy of the Legal Department.

- Familiar with absorbing detail and conveying it in a clear and concise fashion to all levels of the organization.