Job Description: Company Secretary (CS + LLB)

The company is an investment banking advisory firm that helps small and medium enterprises across India access growth capital, execute M&A; transactions, and prepare for capital markets, including SME IPOs. We are looking for a driven, detail-oriented professional to join our growing team.

Position Details

Position: Company Secretary

Experience: 3–4 years

A qualified Company Secretary (ICSI Member) with an LL.B. / B.A. LL.B. degree and 3–4 years of relevant experience in corporate secretarial practice, statutory compliance, and transaction-related documentation.

This is fundamentally a Company Secretary role embedded within an investment banking advisory practice — not an in-house legal counsel position. The LL.B. qualification is valued for the depth it brings to transaction documentation: a stronger grasp of corporate law and Companies Act provisions that makes deal documents, filings, and agreements more legally sound and water-tight. The candidate will not be expected to represent the firm as legal counsel, appear before any authority as an advocate, or handle litigation — the legal background is meant to strengthen document quality and interpretation, applied alongside the deal team, not in a standalone counsel capacity.

Job Role

A energetic, dual-focus role combining core Company Secretarial compliance work with active involvement in investment banking transactions. Strong command over regular CS compliance is a must and forms the foundation of this role. However, the candidate should not expect the position to be restricted to routine compliance work — it demands an adaptable,



deal-oriented mindset, with core CS and legal expertise applied first-hand across live transactions, evolving in scope and complexity from one deal to the next.

Key Responsibilities

1. Company Secretarial Practice & Compliance (Core Foundation)

●Independently preparing, reviewing, and filing MCA/ROC forms (e.g., PAS-3, SH-7, MGT-14, CHG-1), with a clear understanding of the compliance implications behind each filing.

●End-to-end coordination of Board, Committee, and General Meetings — including agendas, notices, board notes, and minutes.

●Managing share capital changes, allotments, and dematerialisation of shares with depositories (NSDL/CDSL).

●Maintaining statutory registers, records, and the annual compliance calendar across client and group entities.

2. Transaction & Deal Advisory (Core Differentiator)

●Supporting Merger & Acquisition deal structuring, including entity and capital structure design.

●Preparing Information Memorandums for investment banking mandates.

●Conducting research across public domain sources, legal databases, and the MCA portal, and drawing strategic conclusions to support deal evaluation and due diligence.

●Drafting term sheets, Share Purchase Agreements (SPAs), Shareholders Agreements (SHAs),



Share Subscription Agreements (SSAs), and other transaction-related documents.

3. Legal Documentation Support

●Reviewing and strengthening transaction documents from a corporate law and Companies Act standpoint, ensuring they are legally sound and enforceable.

●Working closely with the deal team to identify and mitigate legal and compliance risks embedded in transaction structures.

●This is a documentation-support and advisory function — the role does not involve representing the company as legal counsel or acting as an advocate in any proceeding.

What We Expect From You

●An open mindset, with the willingness to move beyond routine compliance and take on dynamic, deal-driven responsibilities as they arise.

●Comfort working across multiple live transactions simultaneously, with the ability to adapt as each deal's requirements evolve.

●A genuine interest in investment banking, deal structuring, and transaction documentation, not just secretarial compliance.

●Strong research orientation — comfortable drawing conclusions from public domain, legal, and regulatory sources to support deal decisions.

Qualifications

●Qualified Company Secretary (Associate/Fellow Member of ICSI).

●LL.B. or B.A. LL.B. degree.

●3–4 years of relevant post-qualification experience in corporate secretarial practice and/or transaction documentation.

●Working knowledge of the Companies Act, corporate law provisions, and MCA21 portal ecosystem.

●Strong drafting, research, and analytical skills, with clear written and verbal communication.

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