Senior Associate, Legal

About The Role

GLG seeks an experienced commercial lawyer to join the Company’s legal department in Gurugram, India. This candidate will be a well-rounded communicator, highly organized, efficient, proactive, impeccably trustworthy, and resourceful.

Specific Responsibilities Include (but Are Not Limited To)

• Efficiently draft, negotiate and review contracts for the Company, including cross-border and multi-jurisdictional contracts.
• Conduct legal and regulatory research across different jurisdictions and summarize findings clearly and accurately for internal stakeholders.
• Team with other legal department lawyers and non-lawyer personnel to ensure timely execution of legal and compliance related tasks for the Company.
• Work closely with internal teams such as Business Development, Client Solutions, and Compliance to support day-to-day business operations and ensure timely execution of legal tasks.
• Support in developing and updating standard legal templates, checklists, and internal guidelines.
• Assist in monitoring legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Company’s business.
  

Candidate Profile

An ideal candidate will have the following:

• Law degree (LL.B. or higher) from a top law university, with demonstrated excellent academic performance.
• Minimum 3 years’ post qualification experience as a transactional attorney in a reputable business law firm, or in-house experience with the legal department, preferably in a multi-national company.
• Must be fluent in MS office and comfortable with new technology.
• Prior experience with AI-driven legal tools, CLM platforms, or other legal tech solutions would be an added advantage.
• Exceptional written and oral English communication skills.
• Ability to operate in diverse cultural and international business settings.
• Successful track record of working in fast-paced, client-service environment.
• Ability to problem solve, manage escalation and collaborating with teams to achieve objectives.
• Highly-developed organizational skills and be articulate, detail oriented and hard working.
  

About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group

GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.To learn more, visit www.GLGinsights.com.Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.