Skill-Lync - Senior Manager - Legal & Company Secretarial

Senior Manager Legal & Company Secretarial

What will you be doing?

- Reviewing and drafting various types of contracts and agreements and Contract document Management

- Liaison with counsels for guidance on contracts, litigation management and coordinate with subject matter experts on any legal opinion, as required from time to time

- Trademark, Copyright registrations worldwide, filing objections etc.,

- To review/improve / enhance internal policies / procedures / documentation in accordance with Legal and regulatory requirements on an ongoing basis in consultation with key stakeholders.

- Timely escalation to the reporting head, where necessary on significant legal risk items, and identifying remediation or mitigation measures for such legal risk items

- Managing the cap-table of the company and managing the end-to-end process of Stock options program for the company

- Spearhead funding activities from a Legal & Secretarial Perspective, in terms of preparing for the legal due-diligence, creating and maintaining data room, Reviewing and vetting the definitive agreements for execution, Closure of CP's and CS's as part of the closing exercise etc.,

- Responsible for the Compliance under RBI / FEMA for cross border transaction - in terms of cross border transaction - both capital and revenue transactions.

- Spearhead M&A activities from a Legal & Secretarial perspective, in terms of Deal structuring, Definitive agreement execution, Deal closure etc.,

- Draft Replies, Notices, Letters and any miscellaneous communication, preparations of case drafts from

- Designing and executing the Data privacy policy for the company

- Liaison with US lawyers and counsels for advice and execution

- Assist in Investor relations from a secretarial matters perspective

- Keeping an overall hygiene of all compliance aspects including Labor Law matters.

- Company secretary also responsible for Management of emp benefits such as share

schemes , insurance admin , property administration interpretation of financial accounts

etc.

Compliance/Corporate Structure:

- Filing of all types of forms at MCA portal

- Preparation of minutes of board meetings, general meeting, annual reports.

- Maintain all records required under Company Law.

- Periodic RBI / FEMA reporting

Required Experience:

- Should have exposure of handling corporate legal matters with hands-on experience of drafting various kinds of legal agreements/ business contracts/JV agreements/ MOU etc.

- Must have thorough knowledge of Legal Process in the Country under various Laws applicable for businesses.

- Should have thorough knowledge of corporate and allied laws with specialization on Companies Act and Rules, Processes and Guidelines thereunder.

- Should have hands-on experience of all types of MCA e-filing process, documentation and secretarial record keeping under various sections/rules under the Act.

- Liaison with Advocates & Lawyers for specialized advice and litigation matters.

- Should have excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills with in-depth detail orientation. Knowledge of MS Office tools (MS Word, MS Excel etc.) is a MUST for managing legal documentation.

- Should have excellent communication skills to deal with various internal and external stakeholders.

Required Skills and Qualification:

- Proven experience of 8 to 12 years as legal and company law compliance.

- LLB or LLM and qualified company secretary.

- Working Knowledge of constitution, legal terminology, regulations, legal procedures and processes.

- Knowledge of MS Office and ability to work with legal technology

- Working knowledge of litigation management in computer software industry would be advantageous

- Hands on Company Law matters