Deputy General Manager - Legal - Real Estate - LLB/LLM

About the Company:

Our client is a leading real estate developer renowned for its legacy of trust, excellence in design, and commitment to sustainable development. The company has consistently delivered iconic projects across India and has received numerous accolades for its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. It remains at the forefront of India's real estate sector with a sharp focus on innovation, transparency, and value creation.

Role Overview:

We are seeking an accomplished legal professional with 10 to 20 years of experience in real estate.

Job Purpose

The incumbent will be working in the Legal team and conducting TDDs for acquisition of lands in and around the Bangalore region and handling other real estate assignments including RERA/customer litigation.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Determine the approach in managing litigation cases through discussion and follow up with external consultants /advocates.

- Deal with litigation cases

- Provides timely advise to other departments on concerns/queries having a legal impact

- Examine contracts made by Contracts team to provide legal controls and checkpoints

- Generate a knowledge repository for updates on laws, regulations, ordinances, by- laws relating to real estate industry and make the same available to the team.

- Review and approve all legal formalities for the formation of Society/Association e.g - Complete registration process of the society/association/ drafting the conveyance /Sales deeds/Lease deeds.

- Interact with the Society/Association for finalization of respective deeds , if required

- Conduct due diligence of properties and ensures that the title of the property is clear and marketable

- Review documents utilized by the BD team at the preliminary stage of the project - MoU, terms & conditions and lays out terms and conditions for the same

- Ensure that all commercial terms of the agreement are in place

- Proficient in independently drafts transaction documents for land purchase / development agreement / joint venture agreements and negotiating with counter party for closure

- Conduct discussions with JV Partners on legal aspects

- Hand over project files to the regional team once the agreement has been entered into

- Directly monitor regions which do not specifically appointed legal person

- Mentor, guide and monitor the activities of Regional Legal teams to ensure work as per plan

- Review, discuss and resolve issues in documents submitted by the Regional Legal team for approval

- Distribute projects amongst reportees

- Assign duties to direct reports for litigation roles and for coordination with regional office

- Ensure proper data management and storage of all records

- Create a standard framework for drafts pertaining to legal issues, basis past experiences, and modifies it as per project requirement

- Set guidelines to ensure that the Agreement to Sales document is prepared on time and is error-free

- Compile with company defined guidelines and processes

- Adhere to project timelines

- Identify processes/procedures in own work area that need improvement

- Recommend process improvement ideas to streamline efficiency/costs/productivity

- Undertakes process improvement activities in own work area

- Recommends manpower for the region

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