Senior Associate Legal Counsel (Legal Contracts)

Role: Senior Associate Legal Counsel / Legal Counsel Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Mumbai Responsibilities:

• Drafting and reviewing of complex commercial IT contracts, governed by various Indian laws and Middle eastern laws, e.g. IT outsourcing agreements, IT service agreements, alliance agreements, subcontracting agreements, license agreements and other agreements relevant to the business of an IT service provider.
• Provide end to end support to sales/ business in reviewing, vetting, seeking internal approvals and responding on proposals and requests for proposals (RFPs) including govt. and private sector RFPs, for submission of deviation/ no deviation RFPs
• Participating in negotiations with customers and subcontractors, teaming partners across India, Middle East and Africa and ensuring conformance with internal contracting requirements and policies as well as risk mitigation requirements, managing and controlling the internal escalation and approval procedures.
• Analyzing legal issues and issues related to commercial risks, and presenting clear recommendations to the business teams and to the senior management; acting as an interface between the local offices and the global headquarters.
• Performing Legal advisory functions and local interface to the global legal team in relation to general corporate compliance.
• Tracking laws and regulations that are relevant to the Company’s business and policies.
• Sharing knowledge about local laws and business trends within a global community of the Infosys legal department.
• Adopting and ensuring internal process and procedures are complied with

• 2 to 8 years of prior experience in handling high value and complex, multi-layered transactions.
• Excellent contract drafting / writing and negotiation skills.
• Well organized, stress-resistant, and autonomous – able to work both independently as well as in multidisciplinary teams.
• Very good domain expertise in contracting and legal matters related to the IT industry and the various industry verticals related thereto.
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written to effectively manage the stakeholders
• Preferred knowledge and understanding of common law principles; preferable gained through an LLM or similar Masters’ degree.
• Approachable & responsive to business requirements.
• Must be able to demonstrate/show examples of solutions provided to complex commercial and legal issues.
• Basic knowledge of Litigation is preferable.

• LLB / Equivalent Law Background
• LLM would be preferred.
• 2-8 years of relevant experience.