Vice President - Litigation Lawyer - Bank

Vice President Litigation Lawyer -Bank

- Handle the Key litigations related to the bank

- Interact with the Law firms /Senior counsels for handling the litigations and briefing them for the cases

- Conduct regular reviews of the assigned cases and update the management on developments

- Handling the litigations in various locations coordinating with the lawyers

- Appearing before various Courts, Tribunals, Commissions, Appellate Tribunals and Regulatory

- Authorities for resolving critical issues as and when required

- Appointment law firms/Advocates as and when required

- Establish compliance standards and compliance frameworks based on internal policies and local law & regulations.

- Business Enabler - Provide pragmatic and effective legal advice using research and interpretation skills to achieve business objectives. As an expert of laws, provide consultative guidance for Bank's strategic goals, objectives, and partnerships.

- Be a strategic contributor by proactively sharing legal updates.

- Participate in the development of transparent and legally sound processes, policies. Conduct risk reviews and develop procedures designed to reduce legal risk.

- Relationship led - Develop trust and strong relationships with internal stakeholders

- Develop good understanding of the products, internal processes, and customer journeys.

- Focus on providing legal support to retail banking unit on securitization, direct assignment, partnerships, and co-lending deals

- Provide practical legal advice to business and support units to ensure that legal issues are identified and resolved, and that legal risk is adequately managed

- Provide day-to-day legal support in the form of advisory and legal documentation on partnerships for expanding distribution of retail banking products and services.

- Responsible to stay updated with latest developments in the field of technology, for sharing impact of major changes in law.

- Responsible for providing guidance on handling customers complaints, vetting response to complaints to senior management, responding to notices from regulators/ authorities, vetting legal notices, etc.

- Always adhere to the legal risk management policies of the Bank and any prescribed legal standards.

- Identify and highlight legal risks appropriately while providing mitigating solutions.

- Able to adapt and respond to the fast changes in delivery of legal services and customer demands.