Associate Legal Shared Services

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Transactional legal Support: Draft, review, and negotiate a range of corporate documents with clients (e.g., NDAs (including back to back and joinders), non-reliance & reliance letters, commitment & syndication letters, medium term notes issuances and program updates);
• Providing legal analysis and support on legal projects and documentation including collaboration on large/complex matters, deals, or remediation projects; 
• Conduct legal research and analyze relevant laws/requirements;
• Conceptualizing and implementing novel processes and optimizing existing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness; 
• Provide gap analysis and summary of transaction and client specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals to identify discrepancies, escalation mechanisms and managing remediation exercises; 
• Own firmwide signing authority and corporate governance operations — responding to governance/legal entity inquiries, preparing and maintaining POA/DOA and related certificates, and keeping Authorized Signatory Lists and system records accurate and current; and
• Identifying potential assignments/requests suitable for automation and work in tandem with the respective technology teams to provide solutions. 

Qualification & Experience 

• A law graduate from a premier law school in India;
• 2+ Years of PQE; 
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills;
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to interact with senior business personnel and stakeholders in other functions;
• Exhibit a profound sense of ownership and demonstrate exceptional teamwork skills, seamlessly collaborating with colleagues to achieve common objectives and goals;
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills;
• Ability to identify and escalate issues timely and appropriately; and
• Comfortable working with metrics and data measurement systems.
• Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills 
• Competency in the use of technology, documentation management systems and shared databases will be viewed favorably.