About Department

The Legal department at TresVista is responsible for ensuring agreements entered into with its clients, vendors and third parties are compliant with TresVista's contracting requirements, applicable local regulations as well as providing advisory support to stakeholders, research into applicable laws and regulations in geographies where TresVista operates, negotiating terms of engagement with vendors and drafting legal documents as required by the company.

The Role & Responsibilities:

Contract Management:

Draft, review, negotiate, and advise internal stakeholders and negotiate with external counterparts on various commercial agreements, including third-party agreements, operations and services agreements etc.
Provide time-sensitive support for a wide array of legal inquiries in connection with the contracts
Establish and Lead contract management team to ensure post contractual obligations are met

Legal Strategy and Advisory:

Collaborate with the Senior Leadership of TresVista to implement the legal strategy
Provide legal advice to senior management, board members and other executives on various legal matters
Review and drive the policies in compliance with legal regulations (e.g. Code of Ethics, HR compliance, POSH, Etc.)
IP management
Real estate support
Execute entire legal operations by improving the service quality by establishing new processes, steps, checks, and balances
Support on employment matters

Entity Management, Formation and Structure:

Advising on the formation and structuring of potential new legal entities, such as corporations, partnerships, and LLCs. This includes selecting the appropriate entity type and jurisdiction
Ensuring the firm complies with all relevant laws, regulations, and corporate governance requirements. This involves overseeing board meetings, maintaining corporate records, and filing necessary reports

Risk Identification and Management:

Identify and consult on legal risks in connection with any external partnerships, regulatory, cyber security, intellectual property requirements, and any other matters as needed
Serve as lead counsel on strategic deals, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries

Leadership and Managerial:

Driving improvements in productivity and efficiency using appropriate efficiency metrics (KPIs) defined for department success
Devising new strategies for hiring and training the Legal team
Guiding, mentoring, and training the Analyst's and Associate's in their role and bringing them up to speed

Prerequisites:

Understanding of a wide variety of laws applicable to financial services firms and other diversified laws
Well-versed with corporate legal compliance, policies and framework
Good in anticipating and identifying legal issues of the Company and proactively developing effective legal strategies and practical solutions
Proactive and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail
Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills
Highly collaborative with team orientation
Ability to handle ambiguity

Experience:

5+ years of experience as part of an in-house legal team of a corporate company

Education:

Graduate/Postgraduate in Law

Compensation:

The compensation structure will be as per industry standards

Senior Associate - Legal - Mumbai/Pune