Senior General Manager - Legal - Automotive

- Drafting, reviewing, vetting and editing Lease Deeds, Leave and License Agreements for all existing as well as proposed Company Operated Stores.

- Conducting due diligence exercises for prospective store properties, verifying the title documentation and property credentials, identifying and highlighting legal and compliance risks in this context.

- Advising on the stamp duty and registration fees payable in various states towards Lease

Deeds and Leave and License Agreements. Further liaising and coordinating with opposite and third parties for concluding the registration formalities for Lease Deeds and Leave and License Agreements.

- Tracking the validity and renewal due dates for existing Leases and Leave and License Agreements.

- Formalizing legal documentation in respect of vacation and due handover of leased/licensed premises, recording the peaceful surrender of properties vacated as well as the due termination of the lease/license.

- Negotiation, drafting, review, and finalization of routine commercial contracts and documentation such as Consultancy Agreements, Contracts for Services, Housekeeping

- Service Agreements, Security Service Agreements, AMC Contracts, Purchase Orders, Non- Disclosure Agreements, Conditions of Sale, Rent Reduction Agreements etc.

- Tracking the validity and renewal due dates for existing commercial contracts entered into by the Company.

- Drafting contracts and documentation with a particular focus on simplification,templatization, and standardization.

- Supporting external counsel in the resolution and progress of ongoing or threatened litigation against the Company, primarily of civil nature and before quasi-judicial forms.

- Serving as the single point of contact with external counsel, collating documentation across business functions, advising the management on litigation risks and strategy.

- Drafting formal legal notices and correspondence, demand notices, and pre-litigation notices to defaulting parties as well as responding to legal notices received from opposite parties.

Candidate must have

- Ability to manage people

- Leadership quality

- Good oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work as a team