Job Opening: Senior Lead- Legal at Airtel, Guwahati

Job Responsibilities

Legal activities involved the follows:

Activities involved handling of Court Cases in all seven states (liaisoning with Advocates, getting feedback from internal teams, getting para wise comments, preparation of drafts, visiting Courts in important cases). Also handling of all Pole Site/Site sharing/Site up-gradation/Extra Space documents/agreements. Handling of all legal and other notices and replying to them. Handling of all franchisee /RDD PVR applications and submission, liaisoning with all the TERM Cells on daily basis for clearance. Handling of all Sales and Distribution Agreements for the Companies, onboarding process by agreement execution and code generation. Indexing and sending all executed agreements under DAR Project. Drafting of important communications/notices/representations, etc. for all functions. Sending all litigation/other reports to Central Legal Team on monthly/weekly/Quarterly basis and case updating as well in LMS. It also includes providing of agreement /details of the franchisees on the sudden police investigation, etc. Regular validation of USOF site documents, agreement execution and uploading in the portal.

Regulatory activities involved the follows:

Sending all required reports to the TERM Cells within given time along with other regular BTS Report, MIS Report, Action was taken Report on CAF Audit, CLIR, Foreign National, Suspected Subscriber, Monthly report on new activation, Multiple connections scanned images, HLR/VLR Count, etc. Handling all TERM Audits every quarter in TERM Cells on CAF verification doing the reconciliation. Handling all Penalty issues/reconciling/filing replies/representation/payment processing etc. Handling and supporting all EMF issues. Handling of all TRAI and other reports such as Complete Subscriber Data, MNP, Tariff data, Mobile cloning report, Report on Blackout days etc. Submission of all quarterly data/Report to TRAI. Submission of New connection/multiple connections/scanned images fortnightly to the TERM Cells. Supporting all MRO related activities and submission of final reports at TERM Cells and doing registration of the Sites and obtaining final certification.

What specific skills and traits should this person possess?

Skills Required:

A peoples manager having experience as an advocate and also having experience in dealing with the telecom regulators and other DoT/TERM Cells/TRAI/LAW & Order, officials
Having full knowledge of court processes and practices. Having experience of independently handling high exposure litigations

PQE:

7-12 Years

Educational Qualification

Minimum LL.B. (Professional) or equivalent

Additional business or law related qualifications/degrees would be an advantage

Purpose & Impact

To handle the entire litigations, contract management and regulatory related matters. This will involve drafting and conveyancing, liasoning with Advocates, visiting different Courts, dealing with all regulatory matters including liasoning with DoT, TRAI, Government Offices, etc. Also, the person should be instrumental in creating an environment for speedy and fair resolution of all legal and regulatory escalations.