General Counsel

• Be responsible for compliance with secretarial standards and applicable law; specifically, the Companies Act and the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
• Develop and oversee systems that ensure compliance with applicable law.
• Be abreast with regulatory and/or statutory changes that may affect the company and ensure that corresponding policies are updated and are approved.
• Implement processes and systems to ensure good corporate governance.
• Proactively provide strategic advice including advice on corporate governance matters.
• Liaise with regulators and communicate with external professionals involved in corporate governance, such as auditors.
• Convene and provide administration for board meetings and shareholders meetings.
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, prepare resolutions, convey decisions and handle meeting correspondence.
• Maintain statutory books, including statutory registers and records.
• Undertake annual filings and event driven filings and returns with regulators such as, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Reserve Bank of India.
• Coordinate with law enforcement authorities and investigation agencies as part of Sinch India’s VMN fraud handling efforts.

Corporate Counsel II

• Support FMC’s evolving footprint in India and SW Asia
• Contribute to the development of an integrated and business-focused legal function across APAC

Senior Legal Counsel – Asia Pacific

• Serve as legal advisor to Wolters Kluwer’s business in India
• Provide comprehensive legal counseling regarding a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters
• Advise on regulatory compliance and dispute matters
• Manage external counsel
• Educate business teams on contracting forms and intellectual property rights
• Support litigation matters in India
• Draft and review a range of legal documents

Managing Legal Counsel

• Draft and review the company’s commercial contracts and provide general transactional support cross the organization with a heavy emphasis on vendor/supplier agreements;
• Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements;
• Help enhance playbooks to establish company parameters to scale the legal function as the company grows;
• Work effectively in a dynamic environment across different functional groups and time zones;
• Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes; and
• Generally support the rest of the AlphaSense legal team on other legal matters as needed.

Associate Counsel, Commercial Contracts

• Review, draft, revise, and negotiate a wide range of agreements in English with customers, vendors, resellers, and other third parties
• Excellent interpersonal skills and capability to build strong, trusted and effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders across different functions and cultures
• Where necessary, coordinate the localisation and translation of standard contracts and review outsourced translations of legal documents
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining, updating and revising contract template agreements, processes and playbooks, supporting and leading on special projects where required
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of laws and regulations that may impact the business
• Identify, assess, and brief senior lawyers on potential and actual risks and legal exposures
• Contribute to compliance initiatives by tracking, advising on, and implementing processes
• Coordinating legal matters handled by external counsel or managed legal service providers
• Training L&C team and/or business/function stakeholders

Legal Counsel

• Prepare agendas, notices, and minutes for board meetings, committees, and annual general meetings (AGM) and execute on any follow-up actions;
• Draft, review and negotiate broad range of commercial contracts and provide general transactional support across the organization with a heavy emphasis on sales and procurement;
• Assist with the development of any local policies and procedures;
• Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements, corporate governance, employment, and other areas;
• Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to stakeholders across sales, procurement, finance, HR, product, and leadership teams on day-to-day operational and strategic matters;
• Advise on employment and labor law matters, including compliance with applicable labor codes, employee relations issues, and policy implementation;
• Help create and enhance playbooks to establish company parameters to scale the legal function as the company grows;
• Support and mentor junior legal team members and contribute to the development of scalable legal processes and best practices;
• Work effectively in a dynamic environment across different functional groups and time zones;
• Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes; and
• Support the AlphaSense legal team on all other legal matters as needed.

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Corporate Counsel II

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