About the job
About Amber:
Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing). Amber helps 80M+ students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process. We are the largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, with 1M+ units listed in 6 countries and across 100+ cities. We are growing rapidly and targeting $2B in annual gross bookings value by 2024.
If you are passionate about making international mobility and living seamless and accessible, then – Join us in building the future of student Housing! (We are amongst the fastest growing companies in the Asia Pacific as per Financial Times https://www.ft.com/high-growth-asia-pacific-ranking-2022)
Roles Overview:
To strengthen our India Legal team, we are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, self-
propelling Legal Counsel to cater to business needs as well as to other departments.
Requirements:
- Excellent knowledge of all the corporate laws including Companies Act, RBI compliance, etc.
- Honesty and integrity with the highest standard of ethics is essential.
- Brings a proactive, team-oriented approach
Key-responsibilities:
Company Secretarial (10% of scope)
- Support at Board Meetings, Annual General Meeting, Extraordinary General Meeting and
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) meetings.
- Maintenance of statutory registers.
- Filing of necessary forms with Registrar of Companies.
- Act as a Company Secretary under Companies Act, 2013 if required to be appointed
mandatorily.
Corporate & Commercial (90% of scope)
- Provide commercial and practical legal advice and support and advise on day-to-day commercial matters including issues arising with customers, vendors and other partners
- Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial contracts and agreements keeping in mind the best interest of the company, internal requirements and local laws
- Review, update and create precedent agreements and legal processes as need and appropriate
- To advise and support dispute resolution processes
- Provide training to the business on applicable legal and contractual issues.
- Ensure company is functioning in compliance with applicable laws
- Support and assist for handling of claims and/or internal investigations.
- Researching and anticipating unique legal issues that could impact the Company in its operating area /sector and industry
- Assistance and working on protecting Intellectual properties of the company
- Ensure compliance with foreign exchange laws for transactions outside India such as with RBI
- Ensure compliance with ESG and CSR policies (if applicable)
- Engaging with stakeholders to implement, manage and ensure timely statutory compliances by the Company and its subsidiaries overseas
- Ensure compliance with various contracts entered by the Company with investors/lenders
- Assisting and supporting various internal stakeholder meetings, corporate governance issues, etc.
- Analyze requirements in relation to setting up any company overseas as per business requirement
You bring:
- Min. qualification – LLB+ CS
- Min/ 3 years of relevant experience as in-house legal counsel and/or at a law firm handling company matters.
- Knowledge of contracts with governing laws of UK/US is preferred
- Strong proficiency in the English language.
- Excellent knowledge of all the corporate laws including the Companies Act, RBI compliance
