Lead Corporate Counsel

Role Summary

As the Lead Corporate Counsel, you will own all legal affairs including customer, vendor, and regulatory correspondence and documentation, corporate advisory, fund raising, project financing and complaints handling/litigation for Shubhashray (and its soon-to-be-launched premium housing brand).

You will brief and coordinate with leading external counsels, including Senior Counsel and former ASG Mr. Paras Kuhad, while reporting directly to the CEO and Directors.

For exceptional performers who demonstrate strategic and business acumen, this role offers a defined path to evolve into P&L-linked leadership, taking charge of a business vertical or project. If you aspire to grow from legal stewardship to business leadership, this opportunity is designed for you.

Key Responsibilities

Drafting

• Draft, review and negotiate sale deeds, development agreements, JDAs, PoAs, lease deeds and related documentation for land and development.

Contracts and commercial support

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of contracts: customer agreements, vendor/contractor agreements, consultant agreements, service contracts, NDAs and MOUs
• Proactively identify legal and commercial risks in contracts, propose practical solutions and balance legal protection with business speed.

Customer, sales and collections

• Standardise and periodically update sales documentation
• Support the sales and collections teams on customer disputes, delay claims, cancellations and settlements, aiming for fast, fair and legally sound resolutions.

Disputes and litigation

• Manage all litigation and pre-litigation, including RERA, consumer, civil, criminal and labour matters .
• Coordinate with external counsel, prepare briefs, review pleadings/written statements and track hearings and outcomes in a structured manner.

Business partnership and leadership track

• Work closely with the founder/management on deal structuring, risk reward analysis and strategic decisions for new projects and partnerships.
• Over time, take ownership of a defined business vertical or project (e.g., one city, one line of business), going beyond pure legal to P&L linked responsibilities.

Candidate Profile

Must have qualifications

• B.A.LLB. from a top tier law school.
• At least 5-7 years of post qualification experience, with significant time in real estate/ corporate commercial work (law firm or strong in-house role)
• Strong academic record.

Skills and attributes:

• Exceptional written and spoken English, with precise drafting.
• High IQ and problem solving ability: ability to quickly understand new structures, laws and business models and simplify complexity for non lawyers.
• High energy and ownership mindset: comfortable handling a high intensity, multi stakeholder environment across sites, HO and external parties.
• Strong business sense: able to see the commercial picture behind every legal issue and suggest solutions that enable, rather than block, business.
• Impeccable integrity and judgement, especially in dealing with government authorities, customers, vendors and internal teams.

What This Role Offers

• End-to-end ownership of all legal work in a fast growing, founder- led real estate platform in NCR and Rajasthan.
• Direct exposure to land deals, project launches, sales, financing and disputes rather than being limited to a narrow sub function.
• A defined path to grow into a broader business leadership role (e.g., project head / business vertical owner) for someone who demonstrates capability beyond legal.