Senior Corporate Counsel – India & Southeast Asia– Bangalore, Karnataka, India Come make the world and accelerate your success. It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®. The Job: As a Corporate Counsel, you’ll be part of our corporate team. We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Corporate Counsel to join our Global Legal Team providing legal advice and support to the Company entities and operations in India and Southeast Asia. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in commercial and corporate law, with extensive experience in handling legal matters in India and across multiple jurisdictions within the Southeast Asia region. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent negotiation skills and the ability to manage complex legal issues, across borders, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You’ll get to: Legal Advisory: Provide expert legal advice and support on a wide range of commercial matters, including various contracts, corporate governance, and competition law. Advise on regulatory compliance and ensure the company's operations adhere to local laws and regulations in India and the Southeast Asia region. Contract Management: Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including supply chain and procurement agreements, distribution agreements, and service contracts. Ensure that all contracts are legally sound and align with the company’s strategic objectives. Risk Management: Identify and mitigate legal risks associated with the Company’s operations. Develop and implement risk management strategies and policies to protect the company’s interests. Dispute Resolution: Manage and resolve commercial disputes, including litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Work closely with external legal counsel when necessary to handle complex legal matters. Corporate Governance: Ensure compliance with corporate governance standards and best practices. Advise senior management on corporate governance issues. Manage entity annual filings, certifications, and disclosures required under law. Maintain statutory records and registers. Act as key liaison with government and regulatory bodies, including the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, RoC, and other statutory authorities. Regulatory Compliance: Monitor and interpret changes in laws and regulations that may impact on the company’s operations. Work with the Ethics & Compliance team to implement compliance programs to ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements. Company Secretary: Ensure compliance with the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI regulations, FEMA and other applicable laws. Experience in handling M&A transactions, including conducting legal and secretarial due diligence of target entities, drafting and vetting of transactional documents (share purchase agreements, business transfer agreements, shareholders’ agreements), ensuring compliance with necessary corporate approvals and regulatory filings, coordinating with cross-functional teams (legal, finance, tax, consultants), and overseeing post-closing secretarial integration activities. Manage corporate actions such as Liquidation, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Shareholding structure compliance. Conduct and manage Board Meetings, General Meetings, Committee Meetings — drafting agendas, circulating notices, recording minutes, and filing resolutions. Handle secretarial compliance, including ROC filings, annual returns, director filings (DIR-3 KYC, DIN, etc.), and maintenance of statutory registers. Advise the Board and leadership team on corporate governance best practices, emerging regulatory changes, and corporate risk factors. Facilitate and manage internal audits and support external audits related to corporate governance. Work on the preparation and filing of various statutory forms and other secretarial documents under MCA Correspondence with various stakeholders, including Stock Exchanges, NSDL, CDSL, Shareholders, Directors, Auditors, Consultants, RTA, etc. of the Company. Support in drafting and maintaining CSR policy, ensure compliance with Section 135 of the Companies Act, manage CSR budget allocation, utilization tracking, and annual CSR disclosures Maintain compliance calendars, secretarial trackers, and ensure timely closure of audit observations Training and Development: Provide training and guidance to internal stakeholders on legal and compliance matters. Foster a culture of legal awareness and compliance within the organization. The Person: You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have: Master’s degree in Law or equivalent legal qualification from a recognized institution. Admission to practice law in a globally recognized jurisdiction. 10 - 15 years of experience in commercial law, with a significant portion of that experience in India and Southeast Asia. Strong knowledge of commercial, corporate, and regulatory laws. Proven track record of successfully managing complex legal matters and negotiations. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams. Complete fluency in English, both verbal and written, is required. Candidate who is a qualified member of the Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). Minimum 3–6 years of relevant post-qualification experience in corporate secretarial practices. Experience in M&A transactions. Ability to work independently and as part of a team. High ethical standards and integrity. And More: We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to: Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths. Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera®, and online university. Belong: Experience an awesome place to work where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices. What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us! We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights. Who We Are We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company. Global Benefits & Perks You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. What You’ll Also Get Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths. Learning & Development: Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities). Diverse & Inclusive Culture: We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too. Purpose-Driven Company: You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
