Legal Counsel - Gurugram, India - Delhivery

Description

Role:
Legal Counsel (Disputes Resolution + Real Estate + Contracts)


Location:
Gurugram


Department:
Legal

Professional Experience: 5-6 years of extensive litigation experience (Civil + Consumer +Criminal + Arbitration) acquired in reputed set of Chambers / Law Firms/In-house, relevant experience in real estate transactions/advisory and drafting/negotiating varied Resolution:

• Managing and strategizing litigation (civil + consumer + criminal) including arbitration, recovery proceedings, etc.
• Coordination and alignment with external bodies such as law firms, chambers, empaneled lawyers panIndia.
• Dealing with various statutory, regulatory and enforcement authorities/agencies in relation to statutory notices/summons.
• Advising and providing required legal inputs to management and other internal stakeholders on various litigations from time to time.
• Preparing, highlighting and updating higher management of the Company regarding status of litigation including high stake cases.
• Drafting notices, replies to notice, written statements, pleadings, preparing briefs, case summaries, maintaining and updating MIS, etc.
• Working closely with internal and external audit teams and responding to the clarifications/requirements arising from these teams.

Contracts

• Review, draft, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of contracts, agreements, and legal documents, including service agreements, vendor agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Warehousing agreements, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify legal risks and provide recommendations to mitigate them effectively in the draft agreements and during its negotiations.
• Standardizing the existing draft agreements to ensure its compliance with the constantly changing legal framework and compliance.

Real Estate

• Preparation and review of documents relating to title and transfer.
• Coordinating with external counsel for comprehensive title searches, reviewing of title search report, etc.
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders for procuring list of documents and

observations for the preparation of the Title Search Report (TSR).

• Advising the internal stakeholders on aspects of real estate transactions including title due diligence, issuance of title opinions, registration of properties, drafting & negotiating commercial leases.

Qualifications & Skills:

• LL.B (Hons.) from a reputed college.
• 56 years of relevant experience in litigation (Civil + Consumer + Criminal + Arbitration).
• Excellent functional knowledge of relevant laws (Civil + Consumer + Relevant experience in real estate transactions/advisory and the functional knowledge

of real estate laws.

• Knowledge of contract laws and its implementation.
• Negotiation skills.
• Excellent drafting and research skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced work environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to manage and align stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Strategizing litigations including devising legally sound solutions.
• Proactive and diligent.
• Comfortable working with legal tech online workspace collaboration tools (Litigation + Contracts).
• Willingness to take initiatives.
• Independent selfstarter.

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