Manager - Litigation

Role : Manager - Litigation

Location : Gurgaon

Experience : 4 to 5 Years

Qualification : LLM

Job Description :

1. Litigation

- Determines approach in managing litigation cases through discussion and follow up with external consultants /advocates

- Deal with litigation cases e.g - 3rd party claims, vendor issues, customer complaints, pollution and environment hazards etc. and safeguard the interest of the company.

- Represents GPL in court hearings

2. Legal Advisory support

- Provides timely advise to other departments on concerns/queries having a legal impact

- Examines contracts made by Contracts team to provide legal controls and checkpoints

- Generates a knowledge repository for updates on laws, regulations, ordinances, by- laws relating to real estate industry and make the same available to the team.

3. Legal support in Society/Association formation

- Reviews and approves all legal formalities for the formation of Society/Association e.g - Complete registration process of the society/association/ drafting the conveyance /Sales deeds/Lease deeds.

- Interacts with the Society/Association for finalization of respective deeds , if required

4. Deal evaluation and Documentation

- Conducts due diligence of properties and ensures that the title of the property is clear and marketable

- Reviews documents utilized by the BD team at the preliminary stage of the project - MoU, terms & conditions and lays out terms and conditions for the same

- Ensures that all commercial terms of the agreement are in place

- Drafts a definitive agreement with inputs from solicitors and the regional legal personnel

- Conducts discussions with JV Partners on legal aspects

5. Review of documents from regions

- Hands over project files to the regional team once the agreement has been entered into

- Directly monitors regions which do not specifically appointed legal person

- Mentors, guides and monitors the activities of Regional Legal teams to ensure work as per plan

- Reviews ,discusses and resolves issues in documents submitted by the Regional Legal team for approval

6. Project management

- Distributes projects amongst reportees

- Assigns duties to direct reports for litigation roles and for coordination with regional office

- Ensure proper data management and storage of all records