Assistant Manager - Legal

Role & responsibilities

Contracts

• Maintain an exhaustive Contract database ensuring the updated record of commercial liabilities and entitlements of the company.
• Monitor renewals of commercial contracts and liaise with internal clients for its timely and effective execution.
• Help legal head Identifying typical commercial transactions of the company and participate in drafting standardized template for the same.
• Conduct preliminary vetting of commercial agreements to highlight deviations from Standard Terms.

Contract Management of L&L Agreement:

• Keep track of owners contractual / statutory obligations and update our record in this regard (ex:- renewal of lift license, payment of municipal taxes, Fire NOC)
• Communicate with owners in case of any encumbrances like over-due loan repayment, GST challans, municipal notices

Property Due Diligence and compliance:

• Conducting research on municipal provisions applicable to the intended purpose of usage of the property.
• Verifying the documents received from owner.
• 
  Liaising with owners to get the appropriate documents/get additional documents (affidavits / undertakings) executed in absence of some documents.
• Working with GTCMS to incorporate a module in this regard and keep track of it over tool.

Leave and License / Lease Agreements:

• Providing Agreements with alterations in view of each locations.
• Incorporating the specific points from legal DD in agreement.
• Discussing internally to assess if any compliance matrix be mentioned in view of available documents.
• Negotiating such legal clauses with owners.
• Amending Agreements (or other documents) for additional space / NOC for adds / change in owners (due to death, sale, transfer etc.)

Litigation

• Maintain a robust litigation tracker.
• Seek instructions internally on crucial stages of litigation.
• Keeping internal litigation record updated with documents filed in relations to litigations.
• Participate in fact finding process of legally critical events.
• Keep a track of lawyers invoices against chamber work and court appearances.
• Build a robust network of Lawyers / professionals to ensure seamless administration.

Looking to get Placed? Try our Placement Guarantee Plan

Get Hired

Compliance

• Work with internal departments to support timely renewal of licenses.
• Mindful monitoring of overall compliances through electronic tool.
• Participate in monitoring and building a regulatory compliance framework.
• Participate in building and monitoring contractual compliance framework.

Legal Governance

• Participate in conducting legal research on relevant legal and regulatory norms applicable for the operations of the company in different jurisdictions.
• Participate in developing and managing a corporate communication system for different levels to communicate business / operations relevant developments, events.
• Ensure that the Marketing collaterals / Media updates / Newspaper Publications are getting legally vetted.

MIS & Reporting

• Participate in preparation legal MIS with varied scope and frequency.
• Ensure the timely preparation and presentation of regular MIS.
• Statutory Compliance Reporting (generating, reviewing and reporting on regular interval)