Legal Counsel

**Legal Counsel**

**Availability**: Full time

**Location**: Mumbai, India

**Experience**: 5+ years

**Compensation**: Above Industry Standards

Tvarit GmbH provides software to reduce manufacturing waste e.g. scrap, energy and machine downtime using its patented technology. With its software products, and highly competent team from renowned Universities, Tvarit has gained customer trust across 4 continents within a short span of 3 years. Tvarit is awarded among the top 8 out of 490 European AI companies by EU Horizon 2020, apart from many more awards by the German government and industrial organizations making Tvarit one of the most innovative AI companies in Germany and Europe.

We are looking for Legal Counsel to start our in-house legal team. Reporting to the executive team, the position represents an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced, dynamic hyper-growth company and serve as the in-house legal expert.

**Key responsibilities**
- Develop and execute the company’s overall legal strategy.
- Create a handbook on all essential legal topics for the company and conduct workshops/training wherever necessary to ensure successful compliance.
- Manage legal and corporate governance matters including board materials, consents, minutes, and associated processes and policies
- Draft, review, and negotiate with customer, partners, and vendor agreements (including master service agreements, statements of work, change orders, marketing agency agreements, employment and staffing services agreements, audit services agreements, software development agreements, leasing agreements, and other commercial agreements.) in a wide range of IT contracts along with of other industries.
- Coordinating with cross-functional teams with respect to contract review as appropriate.
- Post signing contract management, including amendments to existing contracts with vendors and customers
- Monitor legal risks in the contract documentation and advise the business accordingly
- Supervise outside counsel for specialized issues that cannot be handled in house
- Identify privacy issues, conduct privacy impact assessments, and advise on privacy compliance requirements (e.g., India laws and GDPR exp is a plus)
- Draft Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for all apps/ websites.
- Maintain a repository of legal documents for all activities of the company (e.g., commercial contracts, dispute resolution, statutory regulations, employment agreements)
- Determine ways to streamline and automate legal processes at the company
- Draft, review, and negotiate all transaction documents related to fund-raising such as non-disclosure agreement, subscription agreements, shareholders agreements, and amendment agreements.
- Assist in closing and post-closing formalities under fund-raising (including corporate procedural compliances)
- Draft, review, and negotiate documentation related to corporate restructuring (bonus issuance/stock split, ESOPs, buy-back) and issuance of any security or instruments (equity, CCPS, warrants)

**Your background**:

- Bachelor’s/Masters’ degree in Law from a top-tier law school in India.
- 5+ years of experience in end-to-end contract management and advisory work in the IT industry, with a law firm, or as an in-house counsel. SaaS software company experience is a plus.
- Excellent knowledge and in-depth understanding of corporate laws and procedures.
- Experience in commercial contracting and intellectual property laws (including trade
- marks and patent filling).
- Experience in handling international clients and exposure to international laws.
- Ability to lead negotiations and collaborate with stakeholders in the structuring new business products from a legal standpoint.
- Adaptable, flexible, and pragmatic with a solution-driven approach.
- Willing to work in the digital and information age and should have preparedness to use technology tools.
- Knowledge and understanding of open-source licensing is a plus
- Expertise in identifying & mitigating legal risks in all areas of business operations.
- Familiar with data protection, data privacy and cyber security laws of India and GDPR is a plus.
- Articulate and possess good communication and drafting skills.
- Ability to perform multi-task and be flexible to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.

**We offer**
- Culture of innovation, creativity, learning, and even failure, we believe in bringing best in you.
- Get mentored by highly qualified internal resource groups and opportunity to avail industry-driven mentoring program, as we believe in empowering people.
- Multicultural peer groups and supportive workplace policies.
- Exchange program cross country wise.
- Work from beaches, hills, mountains, and many more; with the yearly workation program we believe in mixing elements of vacation at work.

Join us and be part of a company where you will experience unparalleled career growth, every day here you will be part of building revolutionary tomorro