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Senior Associate - Legal Counsel
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Role Details: • Employment: Full-time • Industry: IT and ITeS industry • Location: Bangalore • Company: EdgeVerve Key Responsibilities: • Drafting, structuring, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts (such as Master Services Agreements, Software Licensing Agreement, SaaS Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Business Alliance Partner Agreements, Non-disclosure Agreements, Letter of Engagements etc.) • Contract negotiations with both internal business teams and clients (across multiple jurisdictions). • Assisting with RFI/RFP responses and opportunities for the company. • Providing advice to internal stakeholders on various contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing the risk and proposing appropriate mitigations. • Collaborate with various internal stakeholders for addressing contractual requirements/queries. • Support with standardizing processes and templates for efficient and effective delivery of legal support. • Assist with dispute resolution relating to commercial contracts. Additional Responsibilities • Managing complex contractual matters and independently front-ending client negotiations.
• Conducting relevant knowledge sharing sessions for the team and internal stakeholders. • Creating and managing legal processes, standard templates and knowledge repositories. • Advising on various risk management strategies, cross-border legal issues and coordinating with external counsels. • Training and mentoring of new joiners and junior members of the legal team. • Ability to provide timely legal advice to the business stakeholders and support with pressing matters and deliverables Required skills/competencies • Good communication, drafting and research skills. • Good domain knowledge (including understanding of Commercial, IPR and Data Privacy laws). • Analytical ability to tap and integrate all relevant data and to quantify all risk elements. • Ability to represent (internally and externally) the best interests of the organization.