Associate Counsel

Job Overview:

• Drive compliance to statutory norms including Company Law, SEBI Regulations, RBI regulations, Group manuals, by laws, FEMA, listing requirements, applicable secretarial standards, other related laws and regulations etc.
• Prepare agenda and minutes of board/committee/annual general meeting/Extra ordinary general meeting and maintaining various statutory registers;
• Create and maintain secretarial records and file forms/returns with ROC. stock exchanges and RBI
• Manage corporate law related queries, provide opinions to business functions, respond to shareholder queries;
• Liasoning with statutory and regulatory authorities, auditors;
• Support in internal audit, statutory audit.
• Liasoning with global corporate secretarial team for documentation.
• Knowledge of corporate laws and regulations;

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Juris Doctorate or equivalent
• 1 to 3 years of legal experience
• Basic understanding of the litigation process
• Must be proficient with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must be organized and able to work independently with little oversight
• Experience with document review platforms and matter management applications is a plus
• Labor employment law is a plus

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Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Conduct witness interviews for employment litigation matters
• Collect, compile, and review documents and data for discovery responses
• Liaise with outside counsel
• Update the matter management system with matter information as it becomes known
• Respond to Subpoenas on behalf of the company
• Manage and issue legal holds
• Other assignments as deemed necessary