In-House Legal Counsel & Compliance Lead
Olee.Space - Pune | Full-time, In office

About us
olee.space is a Pune-based deep-tech defence startup building next-generation photonics systems - Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC), and Wireless Power Transfer (WPT). We work with DRDO, ISRO/SAC, and global partners, and are gearing up for our Series A./

The role
We're hiring our first in-house counsel - a hands-on lawyer who can own commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, and corporate secretarial work end-to-end, working directly with the founders and finance leadership. You'll be the single point of ownership for everything legal, with external specialists retained for niche matters (patents, export-control opinions, litigation).

What you'll own
Commercial & Contracts (core)
Draft, review and negotiate NDAs, MSAs, vendor and supply agreements, MoUs, JV/partnership agreements, employment and consultancy contracts, ESOP documentation
Support government and defence tenders - RFP compliance, bid documentation, terms review (DRDO, ISRO, TIDCO and similar)




Manage IP hygiene - coordinate patent/trademark filings with external agents, protect our photonics IP
Regulatory & Cross-border
FEMA/FDI compliance including FC-GPR filings, ODI, and cross-border structuring (we have inbound foreign investment)
Defence-sector regulatory work - DPIIT/industrial licensing, and export-control/SCOMET awareness for dual-use technology
Track and manage sectoral compliance as we scale
Fundraising
Support Funding Round - assist on term sheets, SHA/SSA, due-diligence data room, and investor documentation alongside external counsel Corporate Secretarial & Compliance (secondary)
Companies Act / MCA compliance - board and shareholder meetings, minutes, statutory registers, annual filings (ROC), maintaining the compliance calendar
Coordinate with auditors, CS professionals and consultants
What we're looking for
LLB with 2-4 years experience, ideally in-house at a startup/tech/manufacturing com

📌 Legal Counsel (Pune)
🏢 Olee Space
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