Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• be fully responsible for providing legal advice to the management of SMO India on strategic, commercial, and regulatory matters.
• advance a sound governance approach to mitigate strategic risks stemming from new regulations or geo-political developments.
• support complex commercial projects and innovative business models.
• efficiently manage and provide strategic guidance on litigation, dispute resolution matters and investigations.

Qualification & Experience

• Your qualifications — excellent and proven in practice.
• You are a fully qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials. An Indian legal background is a prerequisite.
• 10-12 years PQE (as a guide) in the relevant fields of work, acquired in a leading law firm and/or in-house department.
• ability to adaptively and effectively communicate across management levels, geographies, and cultures.
• profound legal expertise in business critical legal topics.
• strong business acumen and customer focus while always maintaining highest ethical standards.
• strong analytical skills, results-oriented working mode and hands-on mentality.
• ambition to optimize and simplify in-house legal advice through artificial intelligence, standardization, and harmonization.