We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Legal & Secretarial Professional to oversee the corporate legal functions and ensure compliance with statutory regulations. The role involves handling corporate governance, contract management, regulatory compliance, and providing legal support.
What you'll be doing:
1. Legal Functions:
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, agreements, and legal documents.
- Provide legal advice on corporate, commercial, and regulatory matters.
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Handle litigation matters, liaise with external legal counsel, and represent the company in legal proceedings.
- Manage legal risks and provide recommendations to mitigate potential liabilities.
- Assist in intellectual property protection, trademark registrations, patent, design registration and licensing agreements.
- Digitization of AR and AP processes.
2.
Company Secretarial Functions:
- Ensure compliance with Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial Standards, SEBI regulations, RBI, FEMA, and other relevant corporate laws.
- Handle Board Meetings, Annual General Meetings (AGMs), and Committee Meetings including preparing agendas, minutes, and resolutions.
- Maintain and update statutory registers, records, and filings with regulatory authorities (ROC, MCA, SEBI, etc).
- Assist in corporate governance, ethics, and compliance frameworks.
- Support in drafting and reviewing policies, SOPs, and governance documents.
3.
Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management:
- Ensure compliance with statutory filings, including annual returns, financial disclosures, and compliance reports.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and provide updates to management.
- Conduct due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring activities.
- Develop and implement risk management strategies and corporate policies.
What we d love for you to have:
We are interested in you as a person: your attitude, behaviors and values. As long as you have the willingness to learn anything you need for the role that you dont already have, wed love to speak to you.
If you have experience in the following areas this is an added advantage:
- Company Secretary (CS) qualification (ICSI Membership is mandatory).
- LLB (from renowned Law school mandatory).
- Strong knowledge of corporate laws, securities laws, and regulatory compliance.
- Expertise in contract drafting, negotiation, and legal documentation.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to handle multiple legal and compliance issues independently.
- High attention to detail and problem-solving ability.
