Company Secretary & Legal Manager

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

Legal Role

1. Instruct and manage external lawyers and legal costs.
2. Provide accurate, prompt, and robust legal advice to the Business Units within the Group while ensuring legal risks are identified and managed. 3. Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts, with a particular focus on contracts for the construction of a central kitchen in Bangalore, and if required by the Group, spearhead intellectual property protection projects. 4. Work closely with the legal team of the parent company of the Group where required to ensure compliance with applicable listing requirements and internal policies and guidelines. 5. Provide legal training on compliance and updates on new laws and regulations in accordance with the Group's business needs. 6. The role will also be to provide sound, business-oriented legal services to the Group as well as to constantly improve precedents and processes. You may also be required to travel at short notice and be assigned to new roles from time to time.

Group Secretarial Role

1. Prepare and undertake all statutory and other filings including to the Registrar of Companies and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
2. Be responsible and manage the secretarial functions of the Group. 3. Schedule, plan, and organise ad-hoc/quarterly Board and Board Committee meetings. 4. Prepare agenda and draft minutes of Board/Board Committee Meetings and Directors' Report. 5. Maintain and record Statutory Registers as required under the Companies Act & Rules thereunder. 6. Collect disclosures, consents, etc. required under the Company Law from Directors and submit them before Board. 7. Keep records of all corporate secretarial matters.

8. Assist to compile and distribute presentation matters for Board and Board Committee meetings.
9. Ensure complete hard copy documentation is kept at the corporate secretarial department and timely updating of soft copies onto the shared point folder. 10. Liaise with various statutory bodies like the Registrar of Companies and other Government departments, etc. 11. Assist in the preparation of the Annual Report and organizing the AGM/EGM. 12. Other day-to-day secretarial work of the Group.