Legal Counsel
S&P Global
Legal Counsel
S&P Global
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Gurgaon • 🇮🇳 India
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage, draft and negotiate various commercial contracts, including procurement and support, real estate, software licenses, services, maintenance, web-based services, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements
- Support sales and other business teams including shared services groups based in different regions, globally and provide them with innovative business solutions.
- Developing knowledge of multiple areas of the law, including intellectual property, and privacy, and data protection to counsel internal clients on business and legal risks arising at all stages of the customer relationship.
- Analyzing, evaluating, and providing input to product and client initiatives with a view to identifying and highlighting possible business and legal risks to management.
- Assist with various projects for OSTTRA's post-trade services, including client onboarding, commercial and jurisdictional issues, responding to regulatory requests and keeping abreast of post-trade regulatory developments in India
- Provide company secretarial support or oversee third party provider of company secretarial support globally.
- Liaise among business and various support and control divisions of OSTTRA, including IT, Tax, Compliance, Finance, Risk and Operations
- Engage and manage outside counsel
- Act as key member of team of commercial/corporate lawyers based in London, also with legal colleagues in the UK, US, India, Singapore, Sweden and Israel.
Requirements
- Strong academic background / legal degree preferred or conversion
- Qualified lawyer
- 3 to 6 years experience of in-house and/or large law firm experience in a transactional practice
- Must have an excellent command of the English language (both written and spoken)
- Excellent drafting and negotiating skills
- Legal experience in negotiating and drafting commercial and other business to business technology and information related contracts – nice to have
- Experienced in data protection and commercial matters – nice to have
- Knowledge of data and software licensing, intellectual property, and commercial contract law required - preferred
- Knowledge of the laws England and of the State of NY is also great
- Experience with technology, or financial services companies - nice to have
- Proven ability to manage a variety of commercial transactions and special projects simultaneously
- Ability to anticipate and respond to problems
- Investigative, analytical and strategic skills
- Proactive, enthusiastic, self-motivated team player.
- Strong organizational skills.
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
contract managementdraftingnegotiationdata protectionintellectual propertycommercial contract lawsoftware licensingtransactional practiceregulatory compliancecompany secretarial support
Soft skills
analytical skillsstrategic skillsorganizational skillsproblem-solvingteam playerproactiveenthusiasticself-motivatedcommunication skillsinvestigative skills
Certifications
legal degreequalified lawyer