Suminter India Organics - Lead - Legal & Secretarial - LLB+CS

The incumbent shall be responsible for management of Corporate Legal Affairs and provision of Company Secretarial services. He/ She will ensure effective and efficient management of contract administration, company insurance, and compliance with legal and regulatory legislation including provision of legal advice to members of management.

Legal :

- Advise the business on compliance issues and regulatory risks pertaining to the business.

- Assist Compliance Department in providing legal support on contractual matters, for all business and business support departments.

- Engage with clients, vendors and external parties for discussions on legal aspects as required.

- Co-ordinate with lawyers/counsels, provide them all support, information and documents, in co-ordination with various internal departments and handle all litigations across the country.

- Interact with lawyers/counsels to obtain opinions/advice etc. as and when required.

- Regularly update on all relevant Laws and provide pro-active advice to Management on compliances, new legal developments etc.

- Drafting and vetting of all legal Agreements, Contracts, MOUs, NDAs for business transactions.

- Take lead in Negotiations with Customers for finalization of contracts.

- Provide pro-active legal support and advice to the business units and key stakeholders, and to assist them in achieving their core strategic objectives

- Provide Risk Management Analysis along with the Mitigation Principles.

- Interacting and supporting the cross-functional teams internally, including Business Heads, and liasioning with external advocates.

Secretarial :

- Personally handle entire gamut of Secretarial activities for the organization

- Hands-on to ensure the overall compliance with various Corporate Laws and ensure best corporate governance practices in terms of secretarial and other procedural aspects.

- Preparation of Notices, Agenda and working papers for Board meetings and Annual General meeting/Extra-ordinary general meeting.

- Keeping minutes, filing of form and ensuring compliances under Corporate Laws as applicable.

- Preparation of Power of Attorneys, Authorizations, monitoring the same, interacting with external parties on revocation of POAs etc.

- Participate and execute the re-structuring, acquisitions, amalgamations etc.

- Work relating to Incorporation of Companies, Change of Name of Company, Change of Articles, Memorandum, Change of registered office etc.

- Drafting of- resolutions, Notice, Agenda & Minutes & updation of statutory registers and records.

- Correspondence and General liasioning with ROC, Government Authorities etc.

Desired Profile :

- Should have dealt with the Board Members and conducted Board Meetings

- Should be fully conversant with the Companies Act, 2013 and other allied laws.

- On the legal side, should have had the experience of reviewing and advising on Customer contracts and Supplier agreements.

- Ability to review the contracts with the object of Risk Mitigation and identifying Negotiating points will be a great advantage.

- A commercial bent of mind will also be a great advantage.

Exposure to IPO

- Experience in handling court cases, real estate matters, foreign subsidiaries, banks, etc will be an added advantage

- Excellent drafting skills