Assistant Vice President - Legal - Oil & Gas

Job Title: AVP - Legal Manager

Company - International Company, having a subsidiary in India

Location: Mumbai, but to handle Pan India

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

1. Contract Management:

- Drafting, reviewing, standardizing, and negotiating contracts for business verticals.

2. Litigation Management:

- Managing litigations (civil, criminal, labor, regulatory, IPR) across India.

- Developing strategies and suggesting measures to prevent and close litigations.

- Timely appraising all stakeholders about potential legal exposure and mitigation measures.

3. Legal Risk Assessment:

- Conducting legal risk assessments and due diligence.

- Suggesting risk mitigation strategies.

- Providing training on legal, compliance, competition law, and regulatory issues, including company policies and procedures.

4. Management Decision Making:

- Actively involved in the management decision-making process on critical matters such as HR, compliance, ethics, and business expansion.

5. Advisory on Company Projects:

- Advising on Company projects in India, including mergers, acquisitions, JV's, and business expansion.

6. Notice and External Delegation Management:

- Managing notices, external delegation (POA), engagement of outside counsel.

- Keeping track of judicial pronouncements and amendments.

7. Policies and Procedures:

- Developing and overseeing policies and procedures related to litigation, power of attorney, CSR, contract procedures, license procedures, document retention, etc.

Company Secretarial Responsibilities:

1. Corporate Governance:

- Adopting best corporate governance practices and ensuring timely compliance with the Companies Act.

2. Meetings and Audits:

- Conducting board meetings, general meetings, committee meetings, secretarial audits, etc.

3. Certification and CSR Implementation:

- Certification of various documents.

- Advising on the implementation of CSR.

4. Support to Company Affiliates and JVs:

Context & Environment:

- Complex environment with federal structure of India and multiple laws, multiple languages, time constraints, urgent requests.

- Continuous changes in the legal and corporate governance framework.

- Identification of competent external counsel on a pan-India basis.

- Maintaining good relationships with external counsels, authorities, and counterparts in Singapore and Paris.

Accountabilities:

- Providing counsel to the CMD, CEOs, functional leaders, and other senior executives on a range of intricate legal matters.

- Contributing to the development of overarching management strategies.

- Overseeing a team of corporate lawyers (both in-house and external).

- Ensuring adherence to relevant laws, as well as managing contracts and litigation.

- Directing, encouraging, and supervising both internal and external legal advisors.

- Offering training to various business areas on legal, compliance, and regulatory matters, including company policies and practices.

- Fostering legal awareness throughout the organization.