Details of the Organization

since 1942, Asian Paints have been helping customers transform empty properties to homes by dressing them up in warm hues, pastel shades and cool colours, to create spaces that truly represent you. Asian Paints has a lot of identities.

Details of the Job/Internship

Asian Paints is hiring for an Assistant Manager-Legal with 6-8 years of experience to work at their Mumbai location.

Role and Responsibilities

Job Purpose

• To handle the legal requirements of Asian Paints international business as well as new businesses and provide commercially relevant, practical, and proactive legal services. 

Business Responsibility Areas

Asian Paints International Business:

• Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and closure of agreements, and documents and ensuring that the associated risks for the Company are minimized.
• Coordination and management of AP International business units and providing legal, litigation, and recovery support
• Participate in the negotiation of key business contracts provide inputs from a legal perspective and coordinate with various internal stakeholders (Business, Finance, Taxation Teams) to ensure timely closure of agreements.
• End to end legal management of assigned business transactions and legal advisory.

Contract Repository

• Preparation of Agreement MIS on regular intervals.
• Tracking of renewals and other major triggers under the contractual relationship. 
• Ensure Proper execution and storage of original agreements. 
• Preparation of Agreement MIS on regular intervals.

Compliance And New Businesses Integration

• Working closely with compliance team to ensure 100% compliance for new businesses.
• Streamlining and setting up legal processes as per APL standards
• Act as a SPOC for new businesses in the areas of IPR, Agreement, Litigation and Property matters. 

Research

• Researching on various country’s laws applicable to the business in that region,
• Research on finding appropriate judgments for better interpretation of the contractual understanding.

Trainings

• Provide training to internal teams on standard operating procedures for business agreements.

General Advisory And Support

• Provide sound legal advice to different business verticals on various legal matters on the business aspects.
• Act as a Legal SPOC with all external consultants, lawyers and internal stakeholders
• Advising international business units on various business matters especially in the areas of agreement review, IPR and recovery of outstanding debts. 
• Co – ordinating with all law firms including foreign law firms on legal compliance requirements of business in that country.

Eligibility

• LLB from a recognised law university, LLM will be an additional advantage.
• Minimum 6 to 8 years of prior experience.
• Work experience with a recognized law firm/corporate.

Salary/Stipend

Salary details will be finalised during the interview process with the selected candidate.

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

State

Maharashtra

City

Metropolitan Region

Address

Mumbai Metropolitan Region