Legal Manager

Job Title: Senior Manager / Associate Vice President Legal

Location: Mumbai

Key Responsibilities

Transactions

• Suitable experience in handling the legal aspects of Private Equity investment transactions, including Pre-IPO investment, structuring, documentation, and due diligence
• Managing legal aspects of capital market transactions, including IPOs, rights issues, QIPs, preferential allotments, and ancillary regulatory and legal queries
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating offer documents, transaction documents, and other capital markets and research documentation
• Advising on SEBI regulations, Companies Act compliances, stock exchange requirements, and other applicable regulatory frameworks relating to capital markets activities including stock broking, research analyst and merchant banking
• Coordinating with merchant bankers, lead managers, external counsels and other parties in relation to capital markets transactions
• From time to time managing legal work related to real estate investments, including title due diligence, transaction documentation, and coordination with external counsels
• Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing client-facing and vendor-facing agreements for all Group products and service offerings (i.e. Portfolio Management, Broking, Alternate Investment Fund, Mutual Fund, Investment Advisory, Wealth Management, etc.), both domestic and offshore
• Supporting and advising the wealth management business including client complaints and amendments

Dispute Management and Intellectual Property

• End-to-end dispute and litigation management, including coordination with external advocates, tracking cases, and strategy inputs
• Managing the Groups trademarks and other IP matters

Regulatory and Legal Advisory

• Providing ongoing legal and regulatory advisory support to business teams
• Advising on SEBI, RBI, Companies Act, FEMA, and other applicable financial sector regulations
• Identifying legal and regulatory risks and requirements and proposing and implementing practical measures to address the same

General Corporate

• Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing agreements relating to general corporate activities across departments such as HR, Administration, IT, Marketing, and Operations
• Ensuring proper documentation, contract lifecycle management, and adherence to internal policies

Team Management

• Training and supervising any assigned resources, as required

Desired Qualifications & Experience

• L.L.B. from a reputable university; L.L.M. is an added advantage
• 7 years plus of post-qualification experience, preferably in NBFCs, merchant banking firms, financial services companies, investment funds, or reputed law firms
• Strong experience in wealth management or merchant banking and capital markets transactions, including IPOs and other public market issuances
• Strong experience in transactional work, corporate contracts, and regulatory advisory
• Exposure to VC funding, investments, and pre-IPO transactions is highly desirable

Key Skills

• Strong drafting, negotiation, and contract management skills
• Sound understanding of Indian corporate laws, SEBI regulations, capital markets framework, and dispute resolution mechanisms
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders including external counsel and consultants
• Commercially pragmatic and solution-oriented approach
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills