Sr. Manager/ DGM - Corporate Legal

About Bharti Enterprises:

Founded in 1+76, by Sunil Bharti Mittal, Bharti is one of the largest and most respected business groups in India. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company, is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. With our entrepreneurial spirit and passion, we have diversified into areas such as financial services, real estate, hospitality, agri and food, training and capacity building and distribution of telecom/IT products. Bharti Foundation, the group’s philanthropic arm implements and supports programs in the field of primary, elementary, senior secondary and higher education. What sets us apart from the rest is our ability to forge strong partnerships and focus on execution for profitable growth in the operating markets. Over the years some of biggest names in international business, SingTel, IBM, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Del Monte among others have partnered with us.

About the Job:

The purpose of this role is to be a key support to the Group General Counsel by providing advice and independently manage a wide range of legal activities including MA and financing transactions, drafting, reviewing, and commenting on legal transactions documents. Proactively advise senior stakeholders on key commercial and legal risks in high value, complex contracts and transactions.

Impact this role will make:
• Work on diverse transactions across multiple jurisdictions (often cross-border) including merger and acquisition, treasury related transactions.
• Drafting and negotiating the key transactional documents, control of due diligence and managing projects to a budget.
• Highlight risks and strategize to mitigate the risks.
• Identifying key legal issues and ensuring that the concerns of the business team and external counsels are streamlined to achieve the desired results.
• Augment legal advice/ opinion for cross-functional and cross-jurisdictional transactions to derive value for business.
• Advise the Company on matters of Company governance and policy.

Key stakeholders (Internal /External)
• Corporate office teams : Senior Group Management, MA, BD, IR, Treasury teams
• Group Companies
• External Counsels

The ideal candidate:
• Post-graduate in law from a reputed institution having post qualification experience of 6-10 years in a law firm/ in-house in fields of MA, investments and debt financing.
• Well versed with mergers acquisition, drafting documentation. MA exposure is preferable, ideally experience in end-to-end process for conglomerates/ diversified group of companies.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of transaction types (e.g., public company, private company, joint venture, share purchase, asset purchase, capital raises, bond issuances cross-border, etc.)
• Must be able to work autonomously on deals with limited supervision and have credible experience of doing so.
• Experience mix of corporate and law firm is desirable
• Sound understanding of business practices, corporate governance and reputation risk
• Excellent communication interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure and within tight timelines. Read more