About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and commercially astute Director – General Counsel to lead the organization’s legal, compliance, governance, and enterprise risk functions.

As a strategic partner to the founders, leadership team, the General Counsel will provide legal guidance on business strategy, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, investor matters, and IPO readiness. The role will be responsible for strengthening the organization’s governance and compliance frameworks while enabling sustainable growth and protecting its long-term interests.

The ideal candidate will bring 8–12 years of experience across corporate and commercial law, strategic transactions, governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management. Prior experience working in a startup or high-growth environment is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities :
• Strategic Legal Leadership: Define and lead the organization’s legal strategy, advising the founders, leadership team, on key business decisions, current ventures, investments, and potential legal and regulatory risks.




• Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Transactions: Lead the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, business transfers, and corporate restructuring, including transaction structuring, due diligence, documentation, negotiation, closing, and post-transaction integration.
• Fundraising and Investor Matters: Support equity and debt fundraising, investor negotiations, cap-table matters, shareholder agreements, rights issuances, ESOPs, and related legal documentation and compliances.
• IPO Readiness: Lead legal and governance preparedness for a potential IPO, including corporate restructuring, legal due diligence, remediation of compliance gaps, review of material contracts, litigation assessment, statutory-record readiness, and coordination with merchant bankers, auditors, company secretaries, and external counsel.
• Corporate Governance : Strengthen governance f

📌 Director - General Counsel (Bengaluru)
🏢 Masai
📍 Bengaluru