Senior Counsel, Legal Senior Counsel, Legal with verification
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
Team Summary
The Visa India & South Asia Legal team manages Visa's legal affairs in the India & South Asia region. Our team provides advice and services to ensure business goals are successfully met and that Visa's brand and reputation are protected while minimizing legal liability and regulatory risk. Our vision entails each legal professional living the guiding principles to be a proactive partner who never loses sight of his/her responsibility to protect the company.
What a Senior Counsel does at Visa:
This position is for a seasoned business/commercial lawyer to join Visa's growing legal team who would be responsible for all commercial legal matters in the India & South Asia region, including but not limited to complex incentive, partnership, product, interchange, marketing agreements. The position will be based in Mumbai and will report to a senior lawyer in the Visa India & South Asia Legal team.
We are looking for an accomplished commercial lawyer with excellent communication and analytical skills, who is motivated, able to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision and has a leadership mindset to effectively collaborate with business units and other support functions at all levels across Visa to influence business directions and bring positive outcomes.
The applicant should ideally have experience in commercial business law and management, and have excellent legal drafting skills. The applicant must have technical legal expertise with good commercial/legal risk judgement and be able to juggle multiple priorities with tight deadlines in a fast paced and challenging, but inspiring and rewarding, environment. Prior payments experience is not required, although the candidate must be willing to learn Visa's business model and the payments industry.
In this role, you are expected to:
Provide counsel and advice to business teams regarding deal structures and approaches to addressing issues
Be a trusted strategic advisor to and an integral part of the India & South Asia team to help navigate complex business and commercial issues in the ever-changing payments/fintech industry
Work closely with different functional business teams to review and advise using exceptional risk-based judgement on commercial and contractual enhancements, as well as day to day commercial related matters
Draft, negotiate and drive to completion complex commercial, marketing, technology, and strategic partnership agreements that achieve business objectives
Be an effective representative / stakeholder for the India & South Asia Legal team, liaise and cooperate with other members of the global and regional Visa legal teams
Perform such other responsibilities as may be assigned by the India & South Asia legal leadership team
The role may entrail business travel, as required.
Why this is important to Visa
The Senior Counsel provides legal advice, counsel and support to Visa’s business operations in the India & South Asia region and serves as a trusted and respected advisor to senior management and a variety of business units. The incumbent has responsibility for enabling Visa’s business and protecting Visa, through drafting agreements, managing negotiations, and advising on diverse areas of law for strategic partnerships and commercial transactions, technology and intellectual property-related matters as well as daily operations of the business.
Projects you will be a part of:
You will be a member of a regional legal team that works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space.
Qualifications
What you will need:
We are looking for a leader who can bring a breadth of experience and knowledge to our business. As a candidate, you should have:
12 to 15 years of post-qualification legal experience; qualified to practice law in India
Solid corporate/commercial law experience in drafting and negotiating strategic and complex cross-border deals in a top-tier law firm or multinational company; hands-on experience in advising on legal issues in India
Strong academic background with good commercial sense and analytical skills
Excellent command of written and spoken English
Ability to work independently and interface with executive level stakeholders and be a collaborative team player
Practical and proactive problem-solving skills; strong business acumen and be confidently manage stressful situations
Demonstrated ability to manage and drive complex cross-border commercial and technology transactions, strong understanding of complex legal issues in multiple jurisdictions
Excellent legal analytical skills with the ability to integrate legal advice and business knowledge, while providing balanced advice regarding risks and benefits
Genuinely interested in technology and the payments industry
Good attention to detail; strong EQ and resilience
What will also help:
International experience preferred, but a desire to expand knowledge of regional laws and legal systems can substitute
Good knowledge of antitrust law, anti-bribery laws, privacy law and intellectual property law preferred
Additional Information
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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