Primary responsibilities:
- Establishing and implementing the legal vision along with the founding team.
- Manage a high-pressure work environment, responding to the needs of a fast-growing
- business on institutional finance, capital markets, asset management and retail finance.
- Always be on the cutting edge of legal developments and disseminate to the wider
- organisation important trends on aspects including but not limited to:
- Technology and impact on financial services
- Data privacy
- Information Technology Act, 2000
- Regulatory norms applicable to the organization
- Legal regime surrounding the services and products offered by the organization
- Assist in development and implementation of scalable internal policies on:
- Risk management
- Conflict of interest
- Other internal processes.
- Identify competitive advantages and legal / regulatory trends for the benefit of a company.
- Be responsible for real time resolution and to deliver key requirements confirming to
- specified timelines and client requirements.
- Ensure delivery of high quality work customised to meet specific client and business
- requirements, meeting the best market standards.
- Communicate effectively and unambiguously with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Build own negotiating capabilities.
- Work in a collaborative manner to benefit from the collective wisdom and deal
- experience of the market, while retaining own discretion.
- Assist in preparation of and ensure implementation of sound processes that realize hygiene
- around all activities including data management, confidentiality, drafting standards.
- Assist the team in developing well researched positions and practices and in rendering
- sound advice for undertaking transactions.
Requirements
Desired Skills:
- Good technical knowledge of laws pertaining to the field of data privacy laws,
- Information Technology Act, 2000 and other related laws.
- Excellent and in depth research skills.
- Possess a highly solution oriented and business focused approach and always play an
- enabling role for business.
- Have excellent drafting, and reviewing skills, be adept at problem solving, running large
- deals till closure and possess the ability to prepare high quality and well drafted
- documents.
- Ability to understand business requirements and how this would translate to
- requirements from the legal team.
- Ability to handle and run with the matters on their own, with minimal senior intervention.
- Have impeccable integrity, work ethics and ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Ability to present / articulate / position an idea compellingly.
- Be as ambitious as we are, and hence willing to travel, go out of her / his way to build at
- the highest quality, burn the midnight oil to meet goals and deadlines.
- Have demonstrated resiliencestayed with companies with minimal/ no switch in jobs.
- Willingness to learn quickly, including the commercial and structural aspects of products
- and effectively implement such learning.
- Reliability for timely and effective completion of work allocated.
- Work Environment Details
- An opportunity to play a formative role in an ambitious financial services marketplace
- spanning investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional finance, retail lending and
- asset management.
- A journey that will challenge and reward you in a manner few others will.
