Job Opening: Elevate
Job Role: Contract Attorney
Location: Gurgaon
PQE: 5-8 years
Elevate is recruiting a Senior Contract Attorney to join Legal Team and work closely with client’s in-house counsel team in different geographies(America, EMEA, APAC) to provide them commercial and transactional support.
As part of the team 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 memorandums.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Specifically, you will
- 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 the area 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
- 5-8years of total experience with minimum experience of 6 years with commercial transactional support, drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements
- Experience with Microsoft products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint
- Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting
- Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements
- Some experience with contract management software
Skills For Success
- Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment
- 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
- Have experience providing transactional contracts support including reviewing, redlining, drafting, managing various types of contracts for a multinational company
- Highly organized, excellent researcher and writer who is passionate about delivering high quality analysis and written work product
Qualifications
- LL.B. (LL.M. is a plus)
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