Deputy Legal Head

Your Roles & Responsibilities:

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 discussion and resolve 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 record

Who are we looking for

Qualification

Graduation in B.A/LLB

LLM would be desired

Experience:

12 18 years of experience

Worked at District Courts Revenue Courts High court (specially Bombay & Nagpur high court) Supreme Court & major law firms