GMR GroupGreater Hyderabad AreaOn-siteFull-time7–12 years
Listing expiry: 23 October 2026
About the role
Role Overview
Manage contracts and transactions relating to Airport Land Development, including transaction structuring, legal advice, risk mitigation, and documentation and negotiations for retail lease and licence agreements, letters of intent, CAM agreements, amendments, renewals, and tenant-specific matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements relating to project financing, joint ventures, and development transactions, including shareholders' agreements, share transfer agreements, and term loans.
- Apply a risk-mitigation approach when drafting and reviewing agreements, lease deeds, and other contractual documents.
- Coordinate with cross-functional departments and deliver drafts on time.
- Prepare internal legal opinions and provide legal advice.
- Review documents, letters, and agreements for compliance with applicable rules and legislation.
- Obtain relevant information from cross-functional departments.
- Periodically review and standardise agreements and lease deeds.
- Review and improve base drafts to mitigate organisational risk and reflect newly notified compliance requirements and rules.
- Identify newly notified government rules and laws and communicate relevant information to cross-functional departments.
- Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions and streamline legal processes across the Airport Land Development business.
Qualifications & Experience
- LL.B. is mandatory; LL.M. is preferred.
- Have 7-12 years of post-qualification experience.
- Demonstrate excellent drafting and oratory skills.
- Have excellent MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and other computer skills.
- Be conversant with contractual laws, corporate laws, financing-document standards, and local laws relevant to business functions.
- Have strong experience drafting contracts, especially lease agreements, licence agreements, concession agreements, revenue-sharing agreements, joint-venture agreements, development contracts, tender documents, and financing documents across jurisdictions.
- Be familiar with basic civil aviation regulations.
- Be comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
Additional Details
- The role involves coordination with Airport Land Development business development, operations, people and culture, finance, the GHIAL Legal Team, and the Secretarial Team.
- External interactions include law firms and advocates, sub-registrar offices, and courts.
- The role involves handling multiple projects, registrations before sub-registrar offices, and EPC contracts for facility construction.
- Relevant competencies include personal effectiveness, social awareness, entrepreneurship, problem-solving and analytical thinking, planning and decision-making, capability building, strategic orientation, stakeholder focus, networking, execution and results, teamwork, and interpersonal influence.
- Practitioner-level competencies include banking and finance management, legal research and analysis, direct taxation law, indirect taxation law, regulatory compliance and governance, and corporate and regulatory affairs.