Legal Jobs – 9th June, 2021

Legal Assistant, Chamber of Advocate Abhishek Khare, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

About the job

The ideal candidate will ensure smooth running of the office and effective case management by providing legal services under the supervision of an attorney. This individual will communicate frequently with the clients in order to serve them adequately. Additionally, this candidate will conduct necessary case research to aid the legal proceedings.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to lawyer
• Handle communication with clients
• Locate and develop case relevant information

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience in legal assistance
• Familiarity with law, legal procedures, and protocols

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Legal Manager, infra.market, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (PQE – 12 Years)

The Role :

To ensure that the organization has adhered to the constitution and by-laws as well as the laws and regulations of the country. Also to ensure that organizational legal matters are managed properly, efficiently and that the relevant and respective stakeholders are shared and given proper advice and guidance. 

Job Responsibilities :

• Extensive experience in handling litigation / recovery proceedings for cheque bounce / NCLT cases and through consultants. One of the key targets would be recovering funds from delinquent customers. Would also be coordinating with external lawyers for recovery. 
• Experience in examining / negotiating sales and purchase contracts, machinery hire contracts, other organization related contracts such as rent agreements, software purchase agreements, trademark / patent registration, sub-contracting agreements, etc
• Ensuring / advising on corporate law matters and compliance with applicable regulatory laws for operations in multiple states
• Supporting compliance with other applicable laws
• Experience in documentation / security creation and compliance for financing arrangements such as Rupee Term Loans / Working Capital Loans. Also advising on formats of bank guarantees / letter of credits from customers or to be provided to suppliers
• Supporting team in documentation / compliance of import / export related transactions
• Supporting team in obtaining accreditations / certifications customary to the industry
• Ability to guide a team of 4-5 people in-house and external legal consultants spread across India

Behavioural Competencies:

• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
• Oral/Written Communications
• Teamwork/Collaboration
• Leadership
• Commercial awareness
• Attention to detail

Who can apply :

• Legal qualifications required
• Overall experience of at least 12 years
• Preferably should have worked for a Corporate in construction materials sector

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Global Legal Knowledge Specialist, Accenture, Delhi, India

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to support and develop Knowledge Management activities within Legal. The Legal Knowledge Specialist will support the implementation of Accenture Legal’s Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy. They will proactively support the Global Legal Knowledge Manager in curating and managing legal knowledge content, and work with the global Legal teams supporting activities to ensure content collection, content quality, and knowledge management adoption and awareness.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Strong demonstrated interest and literacy in IT
• Familiarity and experience with Knowledge Management tools, technologies and processes
• Knowledge of legal research tools, or other online research tools preferred
SharePoint experience is highly desirable

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Associate General Counsel, Drip Capital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (PQE – 5 to 8 Years)

Role Description:

The candidate will work closely with senior management and team leaders across our Latin America, United States, and India offices. Successful track record and experience with international trade finance legal frameworks or/and capital markets experience is a plus. An ideal candidate would have served as an Associate General Counsel or Head of Legal previously at a financial services company and successfully scaled up the function.

Responsibilities:

• Advise internal business teams on a variety of legal topics such as launching a product, raising capital (debt and equity), vendor agreements, intellectual property, security, and the general legal framework for inhouse policies and procedures
• Research and advise on legal risks associated with local laws and the development of new products and services.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts.
• Taking the lead on legal matters when applicable by supporting the C-level executives, Capital Markets, and Finance teams
• Monitor pending/emerging legislation and regulation and advise the business teams of regulatory developments
• Responsible for anticipating and addressing potential legal risks
• Manage outside counsel along with business teams

Requirements:

• JD degree from a top law school
• At least 5 – 8 years of experience advising on trade finance products and US Securities Law
• Experience advising on compliance with international and domestic trade financial regulations.
• Member in good standing of the State Bar of California or eligible for an in-house exception
• Proven ability to proactively, efficiently, and accurately assess legal business risks in a fast-paced environment
• Commercial awareness and acumen with a bias for action
• Previous work in-house at a financial services company preferred
• Understanding state licensing and exams is a plus
• Trade finance experience is a plus

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Business Systems Analyst – Legal, RingCentral, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India

RingCentral is looking for a Business Systems Analyst who will engage with business stakeholders in Legal (Legal Operations, Contract Lifecycle Management, Export Control & Compliance, Procurement) to understand business processes and user needs from business systems, drill into the details to analyze complex processes and translate them into business and functional requirements. You will be responsible for documenting requirements in detailed elaborate format, defining scope and objectives, systems configuration, testing, implementation, continuous improvement and ongoing support. To ensure we provide optimal service, you will be skilled at business processes and methodologies along with a strong analytical and data modeling background.

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Financial Crime Analyst, BlackRock, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (PQE – 1 to 3 Years)

Key Responsibilities

• Provide operations support to the global Financial Crime team
• Support development of multiple aspects of the firm’s financial crime compliance program
• Provide project management support and help execute project deliverables
• Support creation, maintenance, and delivery of team reporting
• Conduct initial investigations of screening and transaction surveillance alerts
• Provide advice to the KYC onboarding team on standard customer due diligence queries.
• Communicate with transfer agent and client experience management teams on KYC requests
• Identify and escalate risks, including potential sanctions issues, adverse media, and financial crime red flags
• Support quality assurance reviews
• Identify opportunities to automate processes and internal business functions to drive process efficiencies and reduce risk
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to align technology solutions with business strategies

Knowledge & Experience

• 1-3 years in financial crime compliance or related field (e.g. risk management, law, law enforcement, investigations)
• Experience in transaction monitoring would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication, judgment, and business partnership skills
• Ability to communicate complex and/or technical concepts clearly and concisely to a non-technical or lay audience is an advantage.
• Basic facility with Excel and quantitative/statistical analysis
• Experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Spotfire, Qlik) is an advantage
• Experience with compliance software (e.g. customer screening, databases, workflow management)
• Team-focused with ability to work independently
• Proactive, self-motivated, well organized, and strong attention to detail
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Other languages an advantage
• Experience with SQL, Python, R, and advanced Excel a plus

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Corp Investigation Counsel Associate Manager, Accenture, Delhi, India (PQE – 2 to 3 Years)

Job Summary:

Lead, conduct, and oversee “corporate compliance” (“Conduct Counts” or “CC”) investigations arising out of alleged misconduct raised through Accenture’s various CoBE reporting channels. Reporting to Global Conduct Counts Matters Regional Lead – Corporate Investigator, manage notification, recording and reporting process related to investigations, and work with senior company leadership to assess and address significant legal risks associated with such reports and investigations.

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Employment Law – Senior Manager, Accenture, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Employment Law Team:

Employment Law team has two verticals. Compliance and Employee matters. his position is for the position of Senior Manager OR Manager in the Employment Law team (ER Related).

JOB SUMMARY:

The job profile includes handling complex employment law issues relating to the complete life cycle of an employee. Issues relating to recruitment, background verification, probation, training, disciplinary action, POSH, HR processes and policies, behavioral issues, employee queries relating to benefits, disbursal of death benefits.

Manage Legal notices, Notices from labour authorities, Misc. Notices, Disputes, and litigation including appearance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

L.L.B
Experience in Employment Laws
• 7-9 years of relevant experience for Manager position
• 10-15 for SM Position

Location:

Bangalore OR Gurgaon

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Trade Compliance Counsel, Accenture, Delhi, India

Relationships:

• Legal, including Contracting, Offerings, Alliances, Geographic Operations, Digital and Strategic Offerings, Contract Management, as well as external counsel
• Market Unit and/or Geographic leadership and other key business leadership
• Security consulting practice in the region
• Legal Ventures & Acquisitions team
• Related subject matter experts (e.g. anti-money laundering, anticorruption)
• Trade Compliance professionals at client and peer companies

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Contract Specialist, Accenture, Delhi, India

Role Summary

• Global Legal Network (GLN) Geographic Legal Team supports teams and processes within CORE areas in a specific region or across different geographies.
• The role entails working as an individual contributor or to work along with a team of other GLN members, including offshore and/or onshore CORE professionals within Accenture Legal Group.The GLN CGS Geo C&C Legal member will handle legal support in documenting and reviewing terms and conditions through contracts/sub contracts, proposals, service agreements, negotiating NDAs, RFP responses, Statements of Work, corporate governance matters and other operational documents relating to various operating groups in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws, and customer requirements. The member will also encompass the need to liaise & collaborate with other stakeholders and teams within Accenture, like, deal teams, solution architects, finance, HR, Controllership, procurement, etc., as well as, with subcontractors/vendors.
• The objective of the role is to provide comprehensive support to Legal Services team which includes support on Accenture policies and processes, legal research, legal judgements, using various tools and methodologies focused on internal policy compliances, risk mitigation, contract execution, etc.
• Additionally, the role involves contributing to GLN, especially in people management and people development initiatives, when required.

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Lawyers – Fintech and Corporate, M&A and PE-VC teams, Spice Route Legal, Bengaluru and Mumbai

Spice Route Legal is looking for driven and ambitious lawyers to join our expanding Fintech and Corporate, M&A and PE-VC teams in Bengaluru and Mumbai. If you are up for a fast-paced and challenging role, please reach out to Ishita Dasgupta or drop an email at talent@spiceroutelegal.com.