Legal- Bangalore

KEY PURPOSE OF THE JOB (Position Summary):

• Manage day to day activities as required by the Legal Team;

• Compliance management

  – Maintain, monitor and analyzes statutory and regulatory compliance levels across all group hospitals;
• Assist in developing, updating, and communicating compliance policies and procedures to employees and stakeholders, maintain a compliance risk assessment process to identify and address potential areas of non-compliance;
• Assist in conducting regular internal audits at the hospital locations to assess compliance with established policies and procedures;
• Track and analyze compliance metrics, generating reports for management on compliance status and areas for improvement;
• Maintain accurate and organized records of compliance activities, findings, and corrective actions;
• Collaborate with legal and regulatory experts to ensure accurate and comprehensive reporting;
• Assist in analyzing compliance risks and potential areas of vulnerability; develop and implement strategies to mitigate these risks;
• Advise day to day operations teams on compliance-related risks and provide recommendations for risk mitigation;

• Litigation management

  – Drafting and vetting notices, pleadings and submissions for medico-legal and commercial litigation. Maintaining a tracker of all litigations, analyzing and reporting trends and insights for litigation prevention;
• Active management of medico legal cases by coordinating with the medical teams and the advocates;
• Assist in building good relations with the advocates, developing a network of advocates throughout India and aiding them in cases;
• Drafting notices, vetting notices, responding/handling statutory notices, regulatory notices and different complaints by our patrons;
• Active management of the litigation tool, coordinating with different teams in enhancing the feature of the tool, managing notice through the tool;
• Monitoring of the cases by coordinating with both internal and external stake holders;
• Draft recovery notice and actively participate in recovery of dues;
• Advice the medical teams on various medico legal issue;
• Analyze the legal risk and cost to the company and advised the management and implement strategy to mitigate the risk;
• Conduct medico legal seminars to educate the internal stake holders with the current laws;

• Contract management

  – Drafting, vetting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, Master Services Agreements, Service Agreement, Statement of Work, Change Requests, NDA and other documents including service agreements, sub-contracts;
• Maintaining, filing, tracking, and managing the lifecycle of the contracts;
• Preparing guidelines, SOP`s, dashboard, reports, workflow, strategic complex transactions, including contract summarization, obligation assessment, tracking renewals and necessary support during audits;
• Providing advice to internal stakeholders on various contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing the risk and presenting clear recommendations and mitigations;

• Real Estate management –

  Assisting maintaining the real estate profile of the Group Companies, conducting title due diligence on proposed real estate acquisitions, maintaining trackers and ensure timely renewals of leases; maintain cordial relationship with Lessors, drafting LOIs, Leases, Sale documents and processing their registration;

• IPR management –

  Manage the IPR portfolio of the Group Companies, monitor violations of the Company’s Intellectual Property, apply for new Trademarks and Patents, respond to regulatory notices and communications regarding IP;

SUPPORT PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations, quality control, and safety, to address compliance concerns;
• Assist in due diligence and M&A activities;
• Active assistance in company secretarial activities;
• Liaise with the required stakeholders and external counsel for various legal activities.