Senior Associate - Legal Counsel

EdgeVerve Systems; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeVerve Systems is seeking a seasoned legal professional to draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including master services, software licensing, SaaS, and NDAs. You will assess risks and advise stakeholders on policy implications within a fast-paced IT environment in Bengaluru.

You will collaborate with internal teams, respond to RFI/RFPs, and help standardize legal processes and templates. Mentoring and guiding junior members will be part of your responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts and agreements.
• Advising on risk and mitigations for business initiatives.
• Excellent communication and drafting skills across legal domains.
• Strong knowledge of Commercial, IPR and Data Privacy laws.

Responsibilities

• Draft, structure, review, and negotiate commercial contracts.
• Negotiate contracts with internal teams and clients across jurisdictions.
• Assist with RFI/RFP responses and opportunities.
• Advise on contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing risk.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to address contractual queries.
• Support standardizing processes and templates for legal delivery.
• Assist with dispute resolution relating to commercial contracts.
• Lead knowledge sharing and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Contract drafting

Contract negotiation

Legal research

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description

Role Details

• Employment Full-time
• Industry IT and ITeS industry
• Location Bangalore
• Company EdgeVerve

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting, structuring, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts (such as Master Services Agreements, Software Licensing Agreement, SaaS Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Business Alliance Partner Agreements, Non-disclosure Agreements, Letter of Engagements etc.)
• Contract negotiations with both internal business teams and clients (across multiple jurisdictions).
• Assisting with RFI/RFP responses and opportunities for the company.
• Providing advice to internal stakeholders on various contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing the risk and proposing appropriate mitigations.
• Collaborate with various internal stakeholders for addressing contractual requirements/queries.
• Support with standardizing processes and templates for efficient and effective delivery of legal support.
• Assist with dispute resolution relating to commercial contracts.

Additional Responsibilities

• Managing complex contractual matters and independently front-ending client negotiations.
  • Conducting relevant knowledge sharing sessions for the team and internal stakeholders.
  • Creating and managing legal processes, standard templates and knowledge repositories.
  • Advising on various risk management strategies, cross-border legal issues and coordinating with external counsels.
  • Training and mentoring of new joiners and junior members of the legal team.
  • Ability to provide timely legal advice to the business stakeholders and support with pressing matters and deliverables

Required skills/competencies

• Good communication, drafting and research skills.
• Good domain knowledge (including understanding of Commercial, IPR and Data Privacy laws).
• Analytical ability to tap and integrate all relevant data and to quantify all risk elements.
• Ability to represent (internally and externally) the best interests of the organization.

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