Details of the Organization

Wolters Kluwer (EURONEXT: WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.   

Details of the Job/Internship

Wolters Kluwer is hiring a legal counsel to join them in Pune office. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Serve as legal advisor to Wolters Kluwer’s customer-facing Health and Tax & Accounting businesses in India, including direct negotiation of contracts with customers and vendors and advice on regulatory issues applicable to that business.
• Provide legal and compliance support to Wolters Kluwer’s India-based internal software-development and business-support functions.
• Advise people managers and India-based Human-Resources teams on issues pertaining to Wolters Kluwer’s 4,000 approx. employees in India.
• Manage external counsel supporting Wolters Kluwer’s businesses in India, including in the context of regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, employment law and real estate;
• Work closely with contract managers, corporate secretary and compliance professionals in India to ensure effective and efficient support for those functions;
• Providing comprehensive legal counseling regarding a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters impacting the businesses, including matters and legal issues related to on-premise and cloud-hosted software and software-related services.
• Counseling on regulatory and compliance matters impacting the businesses.
• Helping to educate the business teams about Wolters Kluwer’s Code of Business Ethics and related policies, contracting forms, intellectual property rights and obligations, commercial and legal risks and internal contract review and approval procedures.
• Developing an in-depth knowledge and understanding of Wolters Kluwer, its people, organization, markets, products, customers, competitors and regulatory environment, in order to identify trends and provide high level legal/commercial advice to the businesses.

Eligibility

• Candidates are required to have both a bachelor’s degree in law from a highly regarded, nationally recognized educational institution and be fluent in English. Proficiency in Tamil would be an asset. The successful candidate will have a minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible corporate/commercial legal experience, preferably including experience with both a top-tier law firm and an established corporate law department.
• This experience should include negotiation of commercial contracts involving information technology, as well as support of a large workforce in India and advising managers and human-resources professionals on issues of labor and employment law. Experience with real-estate transactions also is desirable.

Salary/Stipend

Compensation details will be finalized during the interview process with the selected candidate.

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

Address

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Application and Registration Details

After you apply, you will receive the next steps of the application process via email. 

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