Role & responsibilities:

- Overseeing legal administrative functions, including document archiving, regular updates, issuing the weekly legal movement sheet, and filing.
- Drafting and vetting all types of commercial agreements required for the business.
- Managing litigation, both in-house and through instructing and managing external counsel, and representing the Company before the appropriate courts.
- End to End accountability and tracking of legal dossier along with provisions and contingent liabilities next actions and timelines. Review and challenge provisions based on legal precedents.
- Managing the Company's contracts database on a day-to-day basis, including migration from the current provider to an internal system.
- Supporting implementation of Company policies aimed at meeting regulatory obligations.
- End to End accountability and tracking of legal dossier along with provisions and contingent liabilities next actions and timelines.
- Advising management on industrial relations matters, including coordination with legal advisors to defend various cases before Central and State Government Authorities in respect of direct and indirect tax and excise matters pertaining to its mill/office/depot locations.
- Liaising with the Accounts team to process legal services invoices and maintain updated legal records.
- Filing legal cases and police complaints against customers, employees and suppliers (e.g., for recoveries, breaches of contract, trademark violations),



and against local authorities.
- Assisting management on intellectual property matters, coordinating with external counsel and business, and working with legal advisors and trademark attorneys to file or defend infringement and passing-off cases.
- Providing legal support on large-scale corporate projects, including assisting external counsel in sourcing relevant legal documents and helping meet regulatory obligations.
- Act as a Legal Business Partner for the allocated region, supporting the Company in achieving its commercial objectives while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.
- Managing relationships with external counsel and law firms.

Preferred candidate profile:

- Minimum 10-16 years of post qualification experience of working with law firms along with a corporate exposure.
- Strong background in commercial law with an excellent knowledge of contract law, with knowledge of English contract law desirable.
- Business insight - clearly understands the sources of growth and the integral dynamics of the business.
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills.
- Excellent drafting, negotiating and influencing skills.
- Ability to deal with high volumes of work from different stakeholders quickly, effectively and to
- a high standard.
- Able to work autonomously, and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability.
- Robust work ethic and enthusiasm displaying a positive winning attitude.

📌 Manager- Legal (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Uberlife Consulting
📍 Tamil Nadu