Legal Counsel

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Preparing correspondence - letters, reports, legal papers and formatting of documents
- Researching and advising on legal queries
- Provide legal support for all operations in India and Bangladesh
- Keeping records of all transactional documents and relevant contracts for various transactions across the APAC region
- Liasing with agents, intermediaries and co-workers, reviewing and organizing documents and reports and preparing individual files for due diligence on all agents, distributors and third party intermediaries for purposes of FCPA compliance review.
- Drafting cover emails and letters and simple legal documents
- Maintain and update a central legal database for the APAC legal team
- Proof-reading, reviewing and drafting letters, contracts and legal documents
- Draft or review resolutions, waivers, minutes, approvals of action without meeting and related documents.
- Create and maintain corporate secretarial record including updating minute books, resolutions, corporate seal, stock certificates, etc for all India legal entities.
- Coordinate with the company-appointed corporate secretarial agent as necessary to ensure that all documents are properly filed, registered and updated.
- Prepare or liaise with company-appointed corporate secretarial agent for the preparation of necessary documentation for amendments, withdrawals, mergers and dissolutions of corporations or partnerships, etc.
- Organizing corporate secretarial files for each country, including keeping records of all constitutional documents and corporate authorities in respect of each entity within the APAC region
- Assist with litigation matters, co-ordinate and communicate instructions to external legal providers and internal co-workers
- Assist and coordinate with the conduct of legal training and provide support to the Regional Compliance Counsel
- Assist with merger and acquisition activities (if any)
- Establish, maintain and timely review of specific standard legal process/procedures.
- Legal research on specific regulations, new applicable laws related to Company' business.
- Provide legal advice on the contracting issues/provisions to the sales & marketing department and lead in business negotiations (legal issues) with internal as well as with external customers.
- Provide assistance to Logistic and Admin Department in legal issues relating to establishing and managing office, base and guest houses.
- Provide assistance to HR department on employment issues and labour laws.
- Attend the India management meetings including weekly meetings and if required board meetings

Adhere to Safety procedure and policies in accordance with safety management system, including:
- Active participation in workshop safety & toolbox meetings
- Active participation and contribution to workshop specific safety initiatives
- Report all hazards and unsafe acts
- Ensure third party compliance
- Actively promote positive safety culture

Adhere to quality procedure and policies in accordance with the quality assurance system, including:
- Ensure equipment is fit for purpose
- Raise corrective actions for all non-conformances
- Comply with work instructions
- Identify areas requiring improvement and / or audit

Requirements

- Law Degree from a reputable university
- Be able to work independently and as part of a team
- Some travel within and/or outside India
- At least 4 years of post-qualified experience with a reputable law firm, local company or multi-national corporation
- Fluency in English

About the Company

We recruit the very best talent for middle management positions across a range of functions and sectors. Think you've heard all that before? Read on.

We're here to make recruitment better. Better for our clients, our candidates and our own recruitment professionals.

We build relationships, not databases, and add real value that helps organisations and individuals grow. We are a team of functional and sector specialists delivering a genuinely consultative service that is underpinned by the depth of both our market knowledge and the client & candidate networks we have built.

Our clients love it. And as a result, we are one of the fastest-growing professional recruitment groups on the planet. Whether you're hiring or changing jobs yourself, you can't afford to get it wrong.

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