Vivriti Capital - Associate - Legal

Who we are:

Vivriti is a young, dynamic, and spirited institution that boasts of a large appetite for success through its vision of creating the largest and most valuable platform for enterprise finance. The word 'Vivriti' means progress or development and speaks volumes about our passion to continuously strive for results that add value to our ecosystem. At Vivriti, we are mission driven, challenging the status quo each day, reinventing the Indian mid-market debt market space, and creating an industry in itself.

Over the last five years, the group that consists of two companies - Vivriti Capital, a unique enterprise fintech NBFC, and Vivriti Asset Management, India's fastest growing digital alternate debt fund manager, has built significantly on its vision. Vivriti presently manages assets in excess of US$ 800 Mn, has offices in Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Jaipur, and consists of a high-powered team of 200+.

Why Join Us?

We are a high energy and supremely passionate bunch of individuals. This is a diverse group of people, who would be best in what they do, are diverse and inclusive, are collaborative and extremely hardworking. Indeed a very inspiring peer group. This is a team with a shared goal of reshaping the Indian mid-market enterprise debt market and change lives of millions of people through our work.

We have a keen eye for great talent, have an appreciation for potential, and an environment which facilitates hyper-performance. Vivriti is known to present a platform to excel for those who have a desire to reach great heights in their career. We nurture our team with great care, encourage ambition, are compassionate in your failures and cheer your successes. We're proud of our collaborative culture; everyone is ready to lend a helping hand, whether it's your first day on the job or your thousandth.

Our Rewards mechanisms are aggressive. High Performance fetches non-linear Rewards. In addition to the fixed component and variable pay, we ensure long term wealth creation for our critical employees through employee stock options. Vivriti is the first tech focused NBFC and asset manager that has provided ESOP liquidity in the last 15 years.

We invest in our employees through developmental programs, Professional Development Allowances and Education Grants.

Our Benefits are better than the best. To list a few below :

Medical Care, Life and Personal Accident Insurance, Critical illness cover

Interest free loans of up to INR 10 Lacs, with no questions asked

Promoting health and wellness at the office with a well-equipped gymnasium, indoor sports facilities and recreation room. Motivating through regular fitness challenges and sports events and leagues.

Caring for your health with nutritious food, fruits served round the clock, variety of beverages, etc.

Ensuring maximum fun environment through Vivriti Premier League - a cross-team collaboration championship challenge, which is a 10-month long series of sporting contests, recreation activities on the floor, cultural celebrations, etc.

About the team and role :

- Your role will involve undertaking the legal structuring of transactions, relationships and providing timely advice and legal handholding for the internal stake holders. This includes both litigation and non-litigation. This position will be based out of Chennai. The team-member will also be responsible in managing the corporate legal support activities by delivering legal opinions / advice on the legal matters across the organisations departments and will also involve helping out the organisation in its litigation actions.

Key responsibilities:

- Be a trusted advisor to the management and the organization, providing timely, relevant council and inputs re-strategic and operating decisions. Assist management, internal shareholder/ board interactions at all time

- Always be on the cutting edge of legal developments and disseminate to the wider organization important trends

- Develop and implement scalable and policies as per business requirement. Represent the firm on key forums

- Take charge of execution requirements of organizational deals including interfacing, developing and leveraging relationships with regulators, credit agencies other financial institutions, consultants and other professionals to deliver best in class value, aligned to business

- Lead design discussions and drive constant improvement of documentation - aim for simplicity, ease of understanding, quick turnaround times. Communicate effectively and unambiguously with all internal and external stakeholders

- Develop networks with key law firms and lawyers for ensuring the best advice, building enforcement capabilities, as well as ensure the best economics.

- Work in a collaborative manner to benefit from the collective wisdom and deal experience of the market, while retaining own discretion. Institute and enforce sound processes that realize hygiene around all activities - data management, confidentiality, drafting standards, policies, turnaround time, legality, etc.

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Have minimum 1-5 years of relevant experience (working with private banks, law firms, NBFC) with degree in Law

- Should have experience in Indian lending operations for a large NBFC/Bank

- Have an excellent grasp of law, pertaining to structured finance, retail finance, capital markets, equity raise, IBC (working knowledge will be added benefit) etc.

- Drafting of various processes and standardization of templates

- Co-ordinating with external counsels for advisory and related matters

- Assist in due diligence processes

- Sound knowledge in drafting, vetting of deeds, collection handling, receivables, attachment of property, legal processes etc.

- Be able to understand business requirements and how this would translate to requirements from the legal team

- Have impeccable integrity, ability to maintain strict confidentiality

- Be highly solution oriented and business focused, always play an enabling role for organisation

- Communicate effectively and unambiguously with all internal and external stakeholders

Location - Mumbai

Mode: Work from office