DGM - Legal

Your Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Litigation
• Determines approach in managing litigation cases through discussion and follow up with external consultants /advocates
• Deal with litigation cases e.g – 3rd party claims, vendor issues, customer complaints, pollution and environment hazards etc. and safeguard the interest of the company.
• Represents GPL in court hearings

2. Legal Advisory support
• Provides timely advise to other departments on concerns/queries having a legal impact
• Examines contracts made by Contracts team to provide legal controls and checkpoints
• Generates a knowledge repository for updates on laws, regulations, ordinances, by- laws relating to real estate industry and make the same available to the team

3. Legal support in Society/Association formation
• Reviews and approves all legal formalities for the formation of Society/Association e.g - Complete registration process of the society/association/ drafting the conveyance /Sales deeds/Lease deeds.
• Interacts with the Society/Association for finalization of respective deeds, if required

4. Deal evaluation and Documentation
• Conducts due diligence of properties and ensures that the title of the property is clear and marketable
• Reviews documents utilized by the BD team at the preliminary stage of the project – MoU, terms & conditions and lays out terms and conditions for the same
• Ensures that all commercial terms of the agreement are in place
• Drafts a definitive agreement with inputs from solicitors and the regional legal personnel
• Conducts discussions with JV Partners on legal aspects

5. Review of documents from regions
• Hands over project files to the regional team once the agreement has been entered into
• Directly monitors regions which do not specifically appointed legal person
• Mentors, guides and monitors the activities of Regional Legal teams to ensure work as per plan
• Reviews, discussion and resolve issues in documents submitted by the Regional Legal team for approval

6. Project management
• Distributes projects amongst reportees
• Assigns duties to direct reports for litigation roles and for coordination with regional office
• Ensure proper data management and storage of all record

Who are we looking for?
Qualification
• Graduation in B.A/LLB
• LLM would be desired

Experience:
• 12 – 18 years of experience
• Worked at District Courts, Revenue Courts, High court (specially Bombay & Nagpur high court), Supreme Court & major law firms