Senior Legal Counsel — Arcot Group
- Locat
ion: Mumbai, India (Lower Parel & Vashi)
- Type: Full time, In-office
- Budget: 5,00,000 - 8,00,000 LPA
- Experience - 5+ yrs

About the Role

Arcot Group is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel
to lead the complete legal function for a fast-growing, multi-country technology group. This is the senior-most legal role in the organization and will report directly to the CEO.

The role will cover
intellectual property, trademarks, patents, commercial contracts, corporate compliance, employment law, partnership structuring, dispute resolution, data protection, governance, and CEO advisory
across entities in
India, UAE, and the USA
.

This is not a narrow specialist role. We are looking for a commercially minded legal leader who can work across multiple legal areas, make practical judgment calls, support fast business decisions, and build a legal function that enables growth while managing risk. The role will be supported by a
Junior Legal Counsel / Paralegal
, but legal strategy, final review, deal structuring,



and senior advisory will sit with this position.

Key Responsibilities

Intellectual Property & Brand Protection
- Manage the Group’s IP portfolio across multiple brands, software products, and jurisdictions.
- Conduct trademark audits and manage trademark filings, renewals, registers, and enforcement across India, UAE, and the USA.
- Identify patentable software / AI innovations and work with engineering and product teams to document them in patent-ready format.
- File or manage patent applications through external patent counsel.
- Establish an invention disclosure process for technology teams.
- Monitor and act on IP infringement, brand misuse, and trademark conflicts.
- Clear new brand names before launch and support defensive domain registrations.
- Ensure employee and contractor agreements include strong IP assignment clauses.
- Advise teams on open-source license compliance.

Commercial Contracts
- Own the full contract l

📌 Senior Legal Counsel (Mumbai)
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