About the job
Company Overview
KKR & Co. Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management and capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of The Global Atlantic Financial Group.
KIOPL Management Solutions India Private Limited will provide best in class services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drive organization wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflect KKR’s global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office will contain multifunctional business capabilities and will be integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR.
Team Overview
KKR’s Legal team is involved in all matters of investment, fundraising, financing, trading, anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, etc. In particular, the KKR Legal team is involved in managing firm legal risks (including contract review and negotiations) and investment risks (including entity management and corporate governance of investment entities).
Position Summary
The current role in the Gurugram office is for a Legal Operations Paralegal who will be responsible for providing various support to KKR’s global Legal team based in the U.S. and Hong Kong
Roles & Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Maintain master KKR legal entity structure chart in PowerPoint (~300 pages) and master list of KKR’s majority-owned subsidiaries, updating for new legal entity formations, dissolutions and name changes on an ongoing basis.
- Assist with legal entity dissolution process, including reaching out to internal stakeholders for signoff to dissolve an entity and preparing Delaware Certificates of Cancellation.
- Answer inbound requests from KKR’s service provider who manages KKR’s entity management system (for example, provide monthly approval to renew Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) numbers for active entities that are up for yearly renewal, provide ad hoc approval to add individuals as new officer/director appointees within the entity management system, etc.).
- Answer inbound requests to provide legal entity signature blocks, confirm authority for KKR executives to sign on behalf of entities, and coordinate signature requests with executives’ assistants.
- Monitor the ad hoc mail forwarding that KKR’s registered agents receive at their offices and forward to the tax team or deal team or discard as appropriate.
- Maintain global records of KKR contracts by monitoring email inbox for receipt of newly executed contracts and uploading contracts to vendor-specific folders within KKR’s contract repository system.
- Lead the identification and management of a contracts repository solution for global commercial contracts.
- Assist with the maintenance of global KKR entity corporate documents by reviewing investment closing sets to identify corporate legal documents to which KKR managed entities are a party, uploading such documents to a specified record retention folder for processing by a KKR service provider.
- Maintain records of non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”), uploading NDAs to a specified folder, marking the expiration date within the file, maintaining an Excel tracking file, notifying the KKR Legal team of NDAs nearing expiry and organizing such NDAs in folders accordingly.
- Perform additional support functions for KKR’s global Legal team and ad-hoc legal administrative tasks as requested.
- Interact with U.S. and Hong Kong Legal teams on a frequent basis to understand their requirements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 3-5 years of work experience, preferably in legal field
- Experience in a multinational finance shared services organization, nationally recognized law firm and/or private equity firm/alternative asset manager preferred
- Ability to manage legal data, upload and store them in compliance with statutory and company regulations
- Be able to communicate clearly and concisely, along with excellent proficiency in English and ability to understand legal documents
- Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Excellent reading comprehension and organizational skills, and desire to learn and expand knowledge base to new areas
- Displays high intellectual curiosity and innovative mindset
- Self-starter who is able to manage and prioritize multiple demands and projects
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment
- Demonstrates highest levels of integrity
- Focuses on strong attention to detail and delivery excellence and accountability
- Displays team-work orientation and is highly collaborative
- Builds strong relationships with local and global colleagues
- Displays behaviors of self-reliance
- Team player, personable and approachable
