Senior Manager Legal - Real Estate

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Strong exposure of general litigation with proven track record of high success rate. Comes with a strong background in reducing lead time for resolution of litigation issues and consumer/commercial settlements.
• Exceptionally good in the legal negotiations such as land acquisitions, change of land use, collaborations, transfer of ownership, tender bidding, and contract acquisitions.
• Knowledge of all applicable laws especially civil, Land acquisition/RERA and consumer laws.
• Exposure to corporate restructuring, policy reviews and legal aspects of business restructuring and JV formation.
• Demonstrates established relationships with leading Counsels and the regulatory bodies such as RERA, NCLT and NCDRC.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developing and leading corporate legal team and strategy to promote and protect the company's matters.
• Participate in high value/complex litigations & lead the process of developing adequate case background in such litigations.
• Defend arbitration matters and all claims against the Company.
• Oversee and review all critical/ high value/ non-standard legal documentation for all functions such as contracts, negotiate favourable terms during MoUs / divestments/ JVs keeping in mind the company's long-term interests to minimize the legal risk associated with any land acquisition, business expansion, disinvestments and enhance risk management controls.
• Providing legal advice for all commercial transactions such as JDAs pertaining to land monetization or JDAs/DM deals for expansions.
• Represent the company before various government authorities & regulatory bodies such as collector, Municipal Authorities, Town Planning Authorities.
• Oversee and review all critical/ high value/ non-standard legal documentation for all functions.
• Handle land related matters by supervising team on preparing and handling legal cases, briefs, give opinions, formulate strategies and advise on legal matters / acquisition of land for the project.
• Provide legal advice to the senior leadership on all legal matters affecting their individual departmental transactions.
• Define legal guidelines for agreements, contracts and other legal documents.
• Establish process checks and oversee adherence to legal compliance across the organization and ensure policies and processes are compliant with regulatory norms and company guidelines.
• Responsible for handling legal related interfaces for all customer matters.
• Conduct legal vetting of all business policies of the organization.
• Work with departmental leadership across the business in identifying and managing potential legal risks.

THE CANDIDATE

Qualifications and Experience Degree in Law (LLB or higher) from premier institutes/universities.

• 8-12 years of experience in civil, commercial, litigation and consumer law.
• Should have worked in a large Real estate Development firm, Law Firms or Large conglomerates participating in Indias real estate sector.
• Preference for at least 8 years with real estate sector specialization.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Ability to build strong and effective relationships both internally and externally with key advisors, stakeholders and shareholders.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present complex issues and information effectively in both written and oral format.
• Clarifies complexity and demonstrates excellent analytical skills, able to prioritise key issues quickly and effectively.
• Good people leadership skills.
• Works comfortably with ambiguity; makes and takes decisions without the need for full information set.
• Commercially astute, able to consider the broader implications of actions and outcomes on the performance of the organisation.
• High energy level, personal resilience, and able to cope with a demanding work schedule and varying priorities.
• Open, collaborative team player who has a sense of humour.
• Strong attention to detail and also sees the bigger picture. Able to move seamlessly from focussing on detail to the broad strategic challenges, and contributing to the development of the business as a whole.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Results and Solution Orientation
• Strategic Orientation
• Collaboration and Influencing
• Be a change agent
• Ability to prioritise
• Attitude and character Agile and decisive character
• Ability to take and stand by decisions
• Out of box Solution provider
• Delegative team builder
• Go-getter

Success factors at Sobha

• Challenging the status quo
• Customer obsessed
• Bias for action
• Less bureaucratic
• Goes the extra mile
• Demonstrates resilience
• Proactively Anticipates changes