Sr Associate - Legal Counsel

EdgeVerve Systems; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeVerve Systems in Bengaluru, India, seeks a contracts specialist to draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including MSA, SaaS, and licensing, with cross-border clients. You will mitigate risk and ensure compliance across jurisdictions.

The role requires strong drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills, plus deep knowledge of Commercial, IP, and Data Privacy laws, and mentoring of junior team members.

Qualifications

• Excellent drafting, research, and communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of Commercial, IPR, and Data Privacy laws.
• Analytical ability to quantify risk and mitigation options.

Responsibilities

• Draft, structure, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts (MSA, software licensing, SaaS, vendor, NDA, LOE, etc.).
• Negotiate contracts with internal teams and clients across multiple jurisdictions.
• Assist with RFI/RFP responses and identify opportunities for the company.
• Provide advice on contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing risk and mitigations.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to address contractual requirements and queries.
• Support standardization of processes and templates for efficient legal delivery.
• Assist with dispute resolution related to commercial contracts.

Skills

Communication skills

Drafting & negotiation

Legal risk analysis

Domain knowledge

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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