Senior Manager - Legal - BPO/ITeS

Contract Reviews:

- Primary reviewer/negotiator for commercial agreements including client Master Services Agreements, SOWs/Work Orders, Vendor Contracts, Facility Leases, Software License Agreements, Service level agreements, NDAs and RFPs.

- Ensure legal risks are addressed while balancing business needs and objectives.

- Ensure contracts are negotiated within contracting standards, while facilitating deal-to-deal specific exceptions and customizations and pro-actively working with Business team members to creatively solve issues.

- Indian law issues: Legal research and responding to legal queries facing the Indian entities, covering all local laws and regulations. Supporting the corporate secretarial team from time to time.

- Specific Projects: Assist with Special Projects as the need arises to support the businesses strategic growth while keeping within the acceptable risk profile. Ability to take ownership of projects and "run with them" to completion.

- Talent Management: Conducting training and awareness sessions on upcoming legal and compliance areas. Ensure team engagement; provide team development, orientation and mentoring. Continue to build and improve processes to minimize team conflicts.

Corporate Secretarial:

Responsible for the following tasks:

- Coordinate and schedule board meetings, committees and annual general meetings (AGMs), prepare agendas and papers for these meetings, draft resolutions, taking minutes of these meetings and follow up on action points including communicating decisions to relevant company stakeholders post Board and Committee meeting decisions

- Maintain and update corporate records, statutory books and registers, including registers of members, directors etc., prepare and lodge required forms and returns with the Registrar of Companies as per statutory timelines, coordinating with consultants for compliance and other regulatory filings from time to time.

- Liaise with external regulators and advisors, interface with internal and statutory auditors and other key external stakeholders in connection to the compliance of Companies Act, 2013

- Monitor changes in relevant legislations in the corporate regulatory environment like Companies Act and Rules made therein, FEMA / SEBI Regulations and other applicable laws and take appropriate action

- Work closely with other teams e.g. Finance, treasury, Human resource, Procurement for corporate secretarial matters

- Support functioning of non-profit foundation managed by Company, CSR policy implementation with Board approvals etc.

- Corporate secretarial compliance in mergers and acquisitions, streamlining the post-merger consolidation of legal entities on banking, regulatory fronts.