This Legal Counsel will be a member of the Asia-Pacific Region legal team and will work closely with the senior management teams of several business units based in India. This position also will support other general commercial, corporate and contractual matters, and will advise on intellectual property, regulatory compliance and dispute matters.
Specific accountabilities and responsibilities are expected to include the following:
- Serve as legal advisor to Wolters Kluwer’s customer-facing Health and Tax & Accounting businesses in India, including direct negotiation of contracts with customers and vendors and advice on regulatory issues applicable to that business.
- Provide legal and compliance support to Wolters Kluwer’s India-based internal software-development and business-support functions.
- Advise people managers and India-based Human-Resources teams on issues pertaining to Wolters Kluwer’s 4,000 approx. employees in India and support Human Resource team on ensuring compliance with the Labour Codes in India.
- Manage external counsel supporting Wolters Kluwer’s businesses in India, including in the context of regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, employment law and real estate;
- Work closely with contract managers, corporate secretary and compliance professionals in India to ensure effective and effective support for those functions;
- Providing comprehensive legal counseling regarding a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters impacting the businesses, including matters and legal issues related to on-premise and cloud-hosted software and software-related services.
- Counseling on regulatory and compliance matters impacting the businesses.
- Helping to educate the business teams about Wolters Kluwer’s Code of Business Ethics and related policies, contracting forms, intellectual property rights and obligations, data privacy and data protection laws, commercial and l