Senior Legal Counsel - India

Listing expiry: 21 October 2026

About the role

Role Overview

The Senior Legal Counsel will lead the legal function for Unseen Realities, Analog’s operating entity in India, and serve as the primary legal contact for Analog’s Indian business and operations. The role covers Indian corporate law and governance, company secretarial matters, commercial contracting, joint venture management, regulatory compliance, intellectual property licensing, employment matters, dispute management, and legal operations. The counsel will work independently in India while collaborating with Analog’s wider legal team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own corporate governance and company secretarial processes, including board and shareholder meetings, resolutions, minutes, statutory registers, filings, and compliance calendars under the Companies Act, 2013.
• Manage corporate actions, director and officer appointments, share capital records, and related statutory requirements.
• Coordinate foreign investment, exchange-control, and downstream investment reporting, including applicable FC-GPR and FC-TRS filings.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including services agreements, technology and software contracts, intellectual property licences, supplier agreements, procurement contracts, non-disclosure agreements, data-processing terms, and customer-facing terms.
• Advise on channel, reseller, distribution, system-integrator, consortium, joint-bidding, tender, and public-procurement arrangements.
• Develop and maintain Indian-law contract templates, playbooks, and fallback positions.
• Manage the company's interests in Indian joint ventures and partnerships, including shareholder rights, reserved matters, governance arrangements, and contractual obligations.
• Manage corporate and commercial arrangements between the Indian entity, its joint venture partners, and other Analog group companies, coordinating group governance and related-party transaction requirements.
• Advise on Indian regulatory requirements, including corporate law, foreign investment, data protection, employment, competition, anti-bribery, and sector-specific regulations.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of compliance programmes and internal policies, identify legal risks, and monitor regulatory developments.
• Advise on intellectual property ownership, licensing, brand use, enforcement, domain names, and Indian trademark, patent, copyright, and design filings through external agents.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and Analog's legal team, and manage external counsel, company secretarial providers, advisers, legal budgets, and legal spend.
• Advise on employment matters, including hiring, terminations, disciplinary issues, investigations, employee relations, employment contracts, consultant agreements, and workplace policies.
• Oversee litigation, arbitration, regulatory matters, legal notices, and pre-litigation correspondence with external counsel, developing dispute-resolution strategies and escalating material disputes.

Qualifications & Experience

• LL.B., B.A. LL.B., or an equivalent legal degree from a recognised Indian university that enables enrolment with a State Bar Council in India.
• Minimum of 10 years of post-qualification experience, with demonstrable depth in Indian corporate law and processes and commercial contracts governed by Indian law.
• Strong background in contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, risk management, and external counsel management, including budget and performance oversight.
• Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical business advice aligned with business objectives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently as the initial sole legal resource in India and collaborate with a geographically distributed team in a fast-paced environment.
• Qualified to practise law in India, including enrolment with a State Bar Council under the Advocates Act, 1961; the source states that enrolment may be current or suspended during full-time salaried employment.
• Based in Hyderabad or willing to relocate there, and able to work from the company's offices.
• Prior in-house experience, preferably in a technology business, is desirable.
• Experience advising an Indian subsidiary or joint venture of a foreign-headquartered or multinational group is desirable.
• Strong experience in Indian intellectual property law, technology transactions, licensing, ownership, and brand use is desirable.
• Working knowledge of technology law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and regulatory requirements affecting technology businesses, including government procurement and tendering, is desirable.
• Experience with joint venture governance, exchange-control requirements, downstream investment rules, company secretarial processes, and Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings is desirable.
• Experience advising on AI-related legal issues and understanding their ethical, regulatory, and commercial implications is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex legal projects and advise senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams is desirable.
• High integrity, sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism are expected.
• Working proficiency in Hindi or Telugu, in addition to English, is advantageous but not essential.
• Ability to travel within India and occasionally internationally as business needs require is helpful.

Additional Details

• The role reports to Analog's Chief Legal Officer.
• The position is the first India-based legal counsel role and is supported by colleagues in Analog's Abu Dhabi office.
• The role includes collaboration across Analog's wider group and its India operating entity, Unseen Realities.