Head — Legal & Compliance | Vantrock Real Assets Private Limited | Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Not a general counsel with a department, and not a land-law seat. One qualified lawyer who commands outside counsel, runs the secretarial calendar for every entity through a small team, and holds the compliance line — for a real assets platform forming a dozen entities and building rapid.

A note before you read on. The team structure, reporting lines, direct reports, seat titles and hiring entity described in this brief reflect the platform's current plan and may change as the platform builds out. Compensation and incentive structures are confirmed in the offer, not here.

REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer · EXPERIENCE: 8–14 years as a qualified lawyer, a meaningful part of it in-house at a real estate or real-assets business

ABOUT VANTROCK

Vantrock is India's independent, operator-led real assets platform — real assets only — with logistics and industrial as the first phase of its growth.

Founded by Anshul Singhal, Founder & CEO — three institutional platforms built from zero, the fourth on his own capital; 52 million sq ft delivered (32 million as developer, 20 million as contractor) across his three prior platforms.

THE FINANCE & ACCOUNTS TEAM

Vantrock keeps its books in-house. The finance function owns every number from the site to the board.

Twenty-one seats when fully built; sixteen live now, one of them already filled. Small enough that every person in it is known by name to the founder; large enough to run a platform properly. Every seat in the team is a builder's seat: the function does not exist yet in the form described here, and the people who join it now are the ones who will decide what it becomes.

JUDGMENT IN-HOUSE, DRAFTING OUTSIDE

Vantrock does not run a legal department in the conventional sense, and it does not intend to. Formal opinions come from external firms. Transaction documents are drafted by the counsel retained for the transaction. Litigation, where it arises, is run by litigators. What the platform keeps in-house is the one thing that cannot be bought by the hour: the person who knows the business well enough to decide what to ask, whom to ask, when the answer is wrong, and when to say no.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS A platform forming a dozen entities, signing construction contracts, taking on lenders, bringing in institutional co-investors and preparing a fund vehicle generates a volume of legal and secretarial work that cannot be run out of the founder's inbox and a handful of law firms' engagement letters. Today it is. The question of who owns the contract before it goes to counsel, who tracks the ROC calendar across a dozen entities, who tells the founder that a clause he has agreed in principle is a problem — has no answer inside the building.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

1. Corporate legal, commanded. Every contract, transaction, structure and dispute scoped by you before counsel is engaged, briefed by you, reviewed by you before it is signed — and the internal view formed first, so that outside counsel is answering the right question.
2. The empanelled firms. Choose them, brief them, hold them to fee and quality, and know which firm to use for what.
3. The secretarial calendar for every entity. Board and partner meetings, resolutions, statutory registers, ROC and LLP filings, annual compliance — for the development company, the investment manager,



the sponsor vehicles and every project entity.
4. The compliance line. A single register of what the group must do, by when, under which law or contract — statutory, regulatory, investor undertakings, with lender covenants mirrored from the corporate finance team's calendar — with an owner and a status against every line, reviewed monthly with the CFO.
5. Construction and commercial contracts. The platform's standard forms — contractor, consultant, project-management, lease, facility-management — built once with counsel and then held, so that the tenth contract is negotiated from the platform's paper, not the counterparty's.
6. The boundary with land. Working with the investments team's land lawyer so that every land transaction hands over cleanly into an entity, a contract and a filing calendar — with nothing dropped between the two seats.
7. The team. Recruit, direct and develop the company secretary, the CS-intermediate and the paralegal; add the second paralegal when volume demands it; and build a seat that a Chief Compliance Officer can be added alongside without a turf line.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

ESSENTIAL

– A qualified lawyer, enrolled with a Bar Council, with 8–14 years in practice — of which a meaningful part in-house at a real estate developer, an institutional platform, or a business of comparable entity count and contract volume.

– Corporate and commercial law as your core: contracts, entity formation and governance, transactions, employment, the Companies Act and the LLP Act in daily use.

– Having commanded external law firms as the client — scoping, briefing, reviewing, pushing back on the advice and the bill — rather than as the associate drafting for them.

– Company-secretarial practice understood well enough to supervise it: you know what a filing calendar for a multi-entity group looks like and what breaks when it slips, even if you have never filed a form yourself.

– Comfortable telling a founder no, in writing, with the reason — and being right often enough to be listened to.

– Based in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, or relocating before joining.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

– Not a general counsel's seat with a large department beneath. The team is a company secretary, a CS-intermediate and a paralegal. The judgment is yours; the drafting is bought.

– Not a land-law seat. Title, land acquisition and land litigation belong to the investments team's land lawyer. If land is your first love, that is the seat to look for.

HOW YOU WILL WORK

– Judgment in-house, drafting outside. You form the view, then engage counsel; you never engage counsel to form the view.

– Everything runs on the platform's dashboards. The compliance register, the secretarial calendar, the contract library and the panel-firm scorecard live on the operating layer, not in a private folder.

COMPENSATION

Vantrock benchmarks compensation against the upper quartile for the role and market, weighted toward equity for candidates who want to build with us long-term.



We discuss specific numbers in the first conversation rather than anchoring either side prematurely.

CULTURAL FIT

We're building Vantrock over a decade, not a funding cycle. We're looking for people who treat technology as the default answer rather than a supplement, who want to be co-builders of the platform rather than employees executing instructions, and who are comfortable saying "I don't know" and "I was wrong." If you want a defined role with defined edges, this isn't the right seat. If you want to help build an institution from zero, it might be.

AI proficiency is a standing requirement in every Vantrock seat. You work fluently with AI tools for research, modelling, drafting and analysis, and you build on the platform's dashboards rather than around them. A supervised AI Proficiency Test is part of the process for every seat, at every level of seniority, and we say so openly.

Partner command is the second standing requirement. The books are ours, but auditors, banks, the fund administrator, valuers, law firms and system vendors are commanded by this team — briefed, held to a standard, integrated — never deferred to. We hire for judgment and accountability.

HOW WE WILL ASSESS

Everyone who applies hears from us within two working days. It carries two links: a fixed set of six questions answered by AI interview — about forty minutes, and the first work sample; we review it before the CV — and the Vantrock AI Proficiency Test, which every hire takes at every level. From there:

1. The Matter conversation. The matters on your sheet: the one where you overruled outside counsel and were right, the one where you were wrong, and how you built a compliance register the first time. With the CFO — or, until that seat is filled, the Founder & CEO.
2. A 90-minute supervised case. A contractor's standard-form construction contract with planted problems, and a two-page group structure — from which you produce the issues note you would send to counsel, the three clauses you would refuse, and the filing calendar the structure implies. Defended to the Founder & CEO and the CFO once in seat.

Once we have received your application, your AI interview and your test, we will reach out with next steps. Your application is confidential: it is seen only by the Founder's Office and the hiring lead, and nothing is shared with your current employer or referenced without your consent.

TO APPLY

Write to [email protected] with the subject line "Head — Legal & Compliance — [your name]", and attach:

– Your CV. This is mandatory — a LinkedIn profile alone is not an application; we will read your LinkedIn as well.

– Your Matter Sheet — one row per matter or transaction you led in-house: type, entities involved, counsel commanded, value or stake in ₹ crore where relevant, year, outcome, your role. The template is available on request. Every row will be discussed.

– Your notice period and what you would need to see to move.

– One short paragraph: the clause that most often gets past a founder in a construction contract, and how you would make sure it never gets past this one. That paragraph matters more than the CV.

We read everything that arrives with a Matter Sheet and a paragraph — properly, not skimmed. If this sounds like your seat, write to us.

We don't hire roles. We build the platform. · Ownership, not employment. · Builders hire builders.

Founder & CEO, Vantrock

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