General Manager - Legal & Secretarial - Manufacturing - LLB (12-20 yrs)

General Manager - Legal & Secretarial

Responsibilities:

- Effective handling of litigation and prelitigation matters

- Timely and error free drafting and reviewing various agreements, policies, and other legal documents.

- Acting as the company secretary

- Help highlight evolving legal and regulatory issues.

- Support the Data Privacy and trade sanction compliance project

- Impart trainings for various stakeholders and coordinate for external trainings as per need

- Managing and updating systems, processes and standard documentation.

- Support on business advisory and interpretive issues.

- To contribute on various legal and compliance related projects at local and group level.

Contract Management:

- Draft, review, and negotiate various types of contracts under preview of the role including procurement agreements, share purchase agreements, power purchase agreements, service contracts, software licenses, and property leases.

- Develop and maintain agreement templates, playbooks and other relevant literature for commonly used agreements and legal documents.

- Interface with third parties for negotiation on the agreement terms.

- Ensure that all contracts comply with relevant legal standards and align with the company's strategic objectives.

- Capture business calls and risks / risk mitigation in document execution formats.

- Develop and maintain a centralized contract repository for easy access and tracking.

Litigation and regulatory matters Oversight:

- Manage all aspects of matters in pre-litigation and litigation stage, including case strategy development, discovery processes, and court appearances.

- Collaborate with external legal counsel to ensure effective representation in legal matters.

- Monitor litigation trends and outcomes.

- Setting up and maintaining standard operating processes for reporting of all significant notices from regulators and third parties and collaborate with relevant teams to support on closure / next steps as per need.

- Develop and maintain a central repository of all legal case files.

- Set up and maintain reporting mechanisms in compliance with internal guidelines

Corporate Secretarial:

- Prepare agendas, coordinate for supporting document, identify shareholder representatives for various meetings, and ensure proper documentation of minutes.

- Provide legal guidance during discussions to facilitate informed decision-making.

- Discharge the roles and responsibilities as a Company Secretary

- Coordinate with Board of Directors, shareholders and other key stakeholders.

Eligibility:

- LLB + CS qualification with 12 years of post LLB experience

- Preferably from Manufacturing companies