Manager - Litigation (Contractual Job)

Home Credit; Cyber City; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Credit in Haryana is seeking a legal professional to manage litigation, draft critical documents, and provide advisory support in India. The role focuses on protecting the company's interests across civil, consumer, arbitration, and contract matters, with a hands-on approach to drafting notices, affidavits, and agreements.

Based in Haryana, you will coordinate with external counsel, review regulatory issues, and help design compliant processes for new products and loan offers.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Indian court procedures in civil and criminal matters.
• Excellent understanding of consumer protection, contract and arbitration laws.
• Experience drafting legal notices, petitions, replies and affidavits.

Responsibilities

• Litigation management including drafting notices, affidavits, and responses; liaising with external counsel.
• Contract drafting and negotiation for service agreements, NDA, lease, MOUs.
• Projects, policy drafting, and advisory on laws affecting new products and loan offers.

Skills

Litigation management

Consumer protection law

Contract drafting

Arbitration law

Legal research

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Objective

Ensure handling of all legal disputes/ prospective issues leading to dispute against the company. Advising the management with best possible solution keeping the legal interest of the company and financial viability of such solution. Ensure due protection of company interest in commercial drafting and new processes and products based on acceptable business risk parameters and needs of business.

Responsibilities

• 1. Litigation Matters:
  • - Complete knowledge of Court Procedures in civil/ criminal cases & consumer forum procedures. Excellent knowledge of consumer protection laws, contract laws and arbitration laws in India.
  • - Drafting legal notices, petitions, rejoinders, affidavits, applications and other documents relating to court proceedings and replies to legal notices. Drafting of Police complaints/ FIR against internal/ external frauds as & when needed.
  • - Representing company before consumer forums, local authorities and mediations. Liaison with external lawyers and other depts. of company.
• 2. Contract Drafting
  • - Drafting of simple but close ended legal agreements, amendments etc. Agreements include variety of service agreement, NDA, lease, leave & license, letter of intent, MOU, payment channels etc.
  • - Negotiating with confidence on legal terms and conditions with other parties and taking initiative in providing acceptable solution while ensuring due protection of company interest.
• 3. Projects, Research & Advisory
  • - Assisting in preparing processes and policies, launching new products/ loan offers/ customer/ dealer contests etc from legal & compliance perspective.
  • - Research and Advising on matters like contract laws, insurance laws, intellectual property laws, IT laws, property laws, registration laws, stamp duty provisions in India and dispute resolution process between parties in different countries.