Senior lawyer - Inhouse with Eastconsult Group, Chennai

Deadline Open Deadline

Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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

Details of the Organization

Today eastconsult is probably the only consulting company in Russia whose services offered cover all needs arising in connection with an industrial investment in Russia: from searching for a suitable ground area, company foundation, accounting, planning, obtaining permits/licenses, search for suitable suppliers and building inspection to start-up and optimization of organizational and production processes.

Details of the Job/Internship

Eastconsult Group is hiring for the position of Senior lawyer - Inhouse with an experience of 10+ years to join them in Chennai office.

Role and Responsibilities

In-house functions: Every-day legal support of the company and its clients’ businesses, organization of the legal work of the company in strict compliance with Indian regulation. Elaboration of the internal rules and procedures.
Industrial construction and support: development, preparation, finalization, and approval of the broad spectrum of the legal documentation, required for industrial objects construction (including general contractor and subcontractors’ agreements), obtainment of permit and necessary documentation for construction, preparation of the necessary construction-support documents in English to be approved by the Clients. Legal support during land plot rights acquisition, design, construction and commissioning phases. Analysis of the Indian regulations to allow the construction on the land plots happen, preparation of the legal opinions and due-diligence reports.
Contracts legal support: elaboration, preparation, amendments, adjustment and reconciling the contracts for good supply, sale-purchase contract (including vehicles, sophisticated equipment, and its registration), works and services contracts (construction, installation, maintenance contracts), foreign trade contracts, contracts deadlines follow-up, preparation of prolongation addendums, organization of their signing.
Corporate legal support: legal entities documents’ preparation and registration in MCA, preparation and submission of forms and documents on entities’ data amendments into the Register, directors, addresses change, bank account opening and closing, companies’ executive authorities period follow up and prolongation, resolutions, and minutes drafting, deals & contracts approvals by shareholders. Shares’ sale-purchase deals preparation, M&A legal support. Equity capital increase, decrease, change.
Licensing and permits: necessary licenses and permits obtainment, their prolongation.
Due-diligence reports: conducting due diligence of the companies and assets, when planned to be purchased by the company clients. Due-diligence reports drafting. Legal analysis and legal opinions preparation.
Indian regulations update: constant follow up of the regulation in all spheres related to the company and its clients’ businesses, ability to use them in everyday business life, ability to make necessary changes in business routine to comply with the regulations requirements.
Litigation duties, if and when required.

Eligibility

LL.B, LL.M, Master of Business Law degrees of the Traditional University or integrated degrees of B.A LL.B (honors), BA/BBA/B.Sc. LLB (honors), B.A.L. or MBL-LLM, MBA-LLM of the Specialized University or School (like NLS of India University, National Law Institute University in Bhopal, National Law University in Jodhpur, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar), approved by Bar Council of India. Major in Business or Civil law is a preference.
The high score of diploma script, 90 % of subjects with A grades.
Experience of the in-house lawyer, including legal support in real estate, M&A and construction spheres. Experience in consulting is a preference.
Experience in contracts drafting and corporate memorandum preparations.
Detail-oriented, well-bred speech and cultured person with excellent command of English including proficiency in legal terms.
Proved experience in construction, land plots title acquiring, due-diligence, corporate affairs. Solid knowledge of construction, real estate, and contract law.
Unassisted experience in developing in-house policies and procedures;
Ability to cope with multi-tasks, meeting the deadlines, accuracy, and high level of self-discipline.
Readiness to execute small and medium-range legal tasks (paralegal tasks: visiting notaries, state and governmental authorities, tax authorities and courts, etc.).
Readiness to solve broad spectrum of tasks (in terms of law fields construction, land, civil (corporate and contract) law).
Flexibility, readiness to visit the sites, authorities, willingness to travel;
Ability to subordinate and report to the company HQ in Moscow, Russia: the company owner and legal department manager.
Team player with good ability to work independently. Ready to listen and follow the corporate culture, rules and procedures.