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Job Description

Singhania & Partners LLP is recruiting a Senior Commercial Attorney in our Contracts - Managed Services team. As a Senior Commerical Attorney you will be a member of the legal service delivery team for one or multiple global client(s), working closely with client’s in-house counsel teams in different geographies, including in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. You will provide commercial and transactional support, working both independently on assigned projects, and collaboratively with the client’s in house team and the Elevate legal delivery teams across the globe. You will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating various contracts and other transactional documents as well as conducting general and legal research and drafting well written memorandums.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Specifically, you will required to

• Review contracts against established standards and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
• Compare contracts and highlight differences and similarities in memorandum format.
• Facilitate escalation of unresolved issues, approval and signature.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates.
• Research and analyse areas of commercial law as relevant to the company’s business and future prospects, and prepare memos or position statements for different audiences.
• Provide high level legal research and memorandum drafting support for other simple to high complexity legal research assignments.

Experience

• Experience with Microsoft products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• 5-8 years of total experience with at least 3 years of relevant experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.

Skills For Success

• Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
• Vision - highly detail oriented, with good analytical skills, financial acumen, and business judgment.
• Excellent drafting skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Professionalism in both verbal and written work.
• Keen understanding and ability to comply with confidentiality obligations.
• Excellent listening as well as communication skills.
• Integrity and ability to own mistakes.

Technical Skills

• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Participated in M&A procedures.
• Some experience with contract management software.

Qualification

• LL.B. (LL.M. is preferred, but not mandatory)

Job Opening ID: SNP0031

Practice Area

Litigation/Arbitration/Dispute Resolution

Post qualification experience

Minimum 7 years work experience

Qualification

Law Graduate from reputed University

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of continuous work experience in Court in litigation and handling matters pertaining to commercial contracts, infrastructure, arbitration/legislative/land acquisition matters and research work.
• Should be well conversant with legal issues in contractual matters and arbitration claims, have experience in vetting/drafting of legal opinion and related drafts/case notes with respect to contract agreements, infrastructure related disputes
• Well versed with the rights and obligations arising out of Contract models of NHAI such as Build-Operate-Transfer BOT (toll), BOT (Annuity), Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM).

Job Opening ID: Job#00029