Legal Counsel

Summary

Audax is hiring a commercially-minded Legal Counsel to support commercial contracting and governance activities for the business, based in India and reporting to the Lead, Legal. This is a hands-on role and will primarily support the procurement function, providing day-to-day legal advice on a broad range of procurement and commercial contracts, and supporting corporate governance and company secretarial matters. The role operates within established legal frameworks and escalates higher-risk or non-standard matters to the Lead, Legal.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of agreements including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and IT supply agreements.
• Pragmatic and able to exercise sound commercial judgement and provides practical risk based solutions that enables the business objectives while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risks within approved frameworks.
• Support governance activities, including preparing agendas, papers, minutes, and resolutions for board and general meetings.
• Support company secretarial obligations, including statutory filings, HQ reporting requirements, and adherence to corporate governance policies.
• Negotiate standard and bespoke agreements in adherence to the companys policies, procedures and regulatory requirement
• Sound stakeholder management skills, with experience supporting procurement, finance, and teams to align contractual solutions with operational needs.
• Track relevant regulatory and industry developments in commercial law and governance, flagging changes to the wider legal team.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 57 years' post-qualification experience, ideally including in-house exposure to commercial law.
• Experience supporting procurement, sourcing or vendor-management in a high growth technology, fintech, or financial services organization, ideally across multiple jurisdictions
• Able to manage competing priorities, balancing strategic initiatives with day-to-day advisory responsibilities
• Working knowledge of corporate governance and company secretarial support activities.
• Familiarity with financial services outsourcing rules and guidance (desirable).
• Strong knowledge of intellectual property, outsourcing, offshoring, software licensing, privacy and related regulatory and risk environments
• Ability to apply standard legal positions, templates, and fallback language across a range of agreement types.
• A self-starter with the ability to independently identify issues, analyse issues and provide solutions which support the business objectives
• Contract negotiation skills, balancing business needs with legal risk protection.
• Clear legal drafting skills for moderately complex commercial agreements.
• Stakeholder communication skills to advise non-legal business teams on contract and compliance matters.