Head - Legal - Pharma/Mfg

Candidate must be from Pharma/Manufacturing background, willing to relocate to Ahmedabad on selection.
Litigation:

- Development of guidelines for mitigation of litigation.

- Strategic thinking on Litigation requirements.

- Strategy and research based legal approach while handling legal matters.

- Drafting, vetting plaints, written statements, replies, complaints, applications etc

- Regular coordination with the counsels and ensure timely attendance and response.

Contract:

- Drafting, vetting/ calibrating various commercial agreements name few, manufacturing agreements, distributorship agreements, trade mark license user agreement etc.

- Ensure Template Standardization

- Advice on Contract formats and requirements; coordination with Functional heads

- Ensure proper compliance, timely renewal and/or termination of contracts

- Maintaining proper documentation; custodian of Original agreements.

Corporate Legal Affairs:

- Making proactive recommendations to the management so that the operations of the Organization are always in compliance with applicable laws for the time being in force

- In house legal opinions; In-house Legal Audit; Development of SOPs for mitigating litigation as well as imparting training/guidelines to other functional subordinates/ business associates for compliance of SOPs and other applicable laws and compliances thereto.

- Being a core committee member handled the activities of demerger, acquisition & joint venture company formation if any.

- Preparing MIS and advising cost based legal approach to the Management

Statutory and Regulatory Affairs:

- Imparting guidelines to concerned Functions, in obtaining, holding required licenses under various statutes.

- Drafting various documents required for obtaining licenses under various statutes and also for

- Product Registrations, Tender documents;

- Ensure review of product labels / promotional materials to comply with concerned statutory requirements, Legal Metrology, and IPR

- Handling prosecution cases, replying to Show Cause notices issued by Regulatory Authorities

IPR:

- Imparting training/guidelines to Marketing personnel while coining and adopting the trade Marks and also tracing out/investigating the imitating /duplicate products.

- Attending all formalities for registration of trade marks, copyrights from search to till Registration and Renewals including registration and maintenance in foreign countries.

- Protecting Intellectual Property rights of the company by tracking trade mark journals and filing Oppositions, defending trade mark applications in Opposition, Rectifications.

- Proactive steps in taking investigations, issuing seize and desist notice against infringers/imitators and filing Infringement /Passing off suits against them and getting injunction from courts.

- Drafting /publishing Trade Mark Caution Notice/ Pre caution advt./ articles in news papers to caution the public in protecting trade mark.