Legal Affairs Director

Key responsibilities include managing contracts, overseeing litigation and dispute resolution, and offering strategic business advisory services. The role requires proactive collaboration with various functions such as Operations, Sales, Marketing, and HR, ensuring compliance and protecting the organization's interests in both organic and inorganic growth initiatives.

Areas of Law expertise :

Statutory and regulatory laws related to compliance for factory, depot, and distribution locations of the company, e-commerce regulations, legal metrology, consumer laws, contract laws, labour and employment laws, negotiable instruments cases, civil recoveries, advertising and marketing laws, property laws, arbitration, NCLT proceedings, IPR laws (especially trademark, copyright, and enforcement actions on counterfeit / copycats), Criminal laws, Civil Law, environmental laws, and working knowledge of tax laws.

The incumbent is required to travel to different units of the company across India, attend court hearings all over India, support in IPR enforcement actions across India.

Litigation & Dispute Management

• Managing Cases in areas of NI Act, Civil Money Recovery, Shares, Property, Labour, Criminal, Consumer etc., before Courts, Tribunals, Quasi-judicial bodies. To ensure that litigations are filed and attended in a time bound manner.
• Close co-ordination with external Advocates & Law firms who are handling company’s litigations.
• Developing a Litigation and dispute Resolution strategy, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for cost effective timely filing of resolution of disputes and litigations, including out of court settlements in coordination with commercial department.
• IT enablement - Developing and monitoring Database, SOP, MIS for Domestic and International litigations.
• Specific focus on Customer Recovery Management & Consumer cases
• Detailed monthly monitoring of Debtors in close coordination with the cross-function team with regards to –
• Debtors’ credibility
• Amount of outstanding dues
• Legal status (whether already under litigation)
• To decide on legal action to be initiated with the sole objective of recovering outstanding dues as per SOP vide –
• Sending Demand Notice
• Pre negotiation as alternative dispute resolution strategy.
• Criminal complaint
• To file Civil / Summary / Commercial suit / NCLT.
• Filing cheque bouncing matters
• Filing Interim Applications against IRP / RPs wherever applicable.
• Attending hearings
• Handling Consumer Litigation, Notices and Complaints before litigations, attending hearings and ensure no negative orders.

Legal Business Advisory :

Intellectual Property Laws :

Support to Legal Head for the Review Meetings :

Experience : 6+ years in in-house legal team exposure in large scale Manufacturing, FMCG, chemical industries.

Educational Qualifications : LL.B., LL.M. (optional) from reputed law school in India.