Job Description

• Serves as a key adviser to the senior management and provides day-to-day advice/counsel to the company on all land and compliance related legal matters.
• Lead & deliver high quality assigned legal, contracts and compliance responsibilities, at both an operational and policy level by working meticulously with specialized knowledge & practical experience in these domains and experience of executing with Integrity.
• To ensure and protect the legal interest of the Company by ensuring proper management of litigation, minimizing risk involved in Contracts executed by the Company.
• Proactively ensure Statutory & Legal compliances in company's documentation, transactions and action to strategically liaise and successfully resolve all ongoing legal cases.
• Provide general legal/risk mitigation advice to multi-functional teams on miscellaneous matters, such as land, EHS, security, factory compliance, labor & employment matters, privacy, and regulatory issues.
• Coordinates and supervises all outside legal counsel engaged to represent the Company with respect to asserted claims or legal proceedings.
• Works closely with the legal team based across corporate office and other locations.
• Maintain MIS for legal department. Make regular updates to legal case files and contract records to the General Counsel.
• Prepare case brief and notes and provide update of the proceedings held in court cases on periodic basis.
• Update the management on evolving judicial trends and legislative proposals, policy changes, amendments in laws and important judgments passed by various Courts / Forums and the appraisal of the impact thereof.
• Assumes responsibility for special projects assigned from time to time by the General Counsel

The Successful Applicant

You should be an LLB graduate with minimum 8 years of experience in capital intensive indistries/ top law firms. You should have sound understanding of relevant laws (Real Estate/Mining/ Electricity/ Environment) and its impact on businesses.