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About:
EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
Role Name And Description:
Associate/Senior Associate – Abstraction
The CLM team provides end-to-end assistance on all types of commercial contracting to the legal and business teams of large MNCs and law firms. The Pre-execution arm (or Drafting team) is set up to function as an extension of the in-house legal team and assist the contracting process from the point business requests a contract, to when the contract is approved and signed.
They review and negotiate transactional contracts based on our client’s organizational policies and guidelines, get the necessary approval and get the contracts signed. Complexity or deal value are not a bar in any sense for them – they provide these services for contracts ranging from bespoke and complex to more standardized or even related administrative work.
Their Post-execution arm (or Abstraction team) support the due diligence of transactions contract through abstraction, summarization and risk analysis. This is critical to clients in M&A situations or to get an insight into their risk profile or just to ensure better day-to-day business operations.
They also work in collaboration with various client stakeholders and key decision makers to operationalize legal functions for large MNCs through automation and process engineering.
The opportunity:
They work with clients across industries and business lines that cover direct procurement, indirect procurement, sales and other ancillary functions.
Your key responsibilities:
- The role involves using legal skills to review, analyze and abstract information from a wide range of commercial, legal and/or financial contracts including but not limited to Patent License Agreements, IT Procurement Agreements, Web Hosting Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Software and Data License Agreements, Vendor Services Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Statements of Work, Purchase and License Agreements, Sponsor Research Agreements, Inter Institutional Agreements, Supply and Distribution Agreements, Staffing, Consulting and Teaming Agreements, Lease Agreements, Estoppels and SNDAA, Data Processing Addendums, ISDAs, CSAs, Loan Agreements, Security Agreements and other commercial and financial contracts.
- Act as a team player while working with a team of lawyers on several abstraction, deviation analysis and due diligence projects involving the agreements described above.
- Be proactive and provide professional, timely, and prompt service and responses to the Delivery Managers so that they can support the Client Contact and the onshore team .
- Track personal performance metrics, thrive to achieve goals set for themselves in discussion with the counsellor and periodically seek feedback to ensure progress.
- Manage deadlines without delivery delays and consistently re negotiate deadlines (when necessary) well in advance of originally scheduled deadline; escalate client issues promptly and appropriately; consistently complete real time client call notes.
- Attend and participate actively in mandatory and non- mandatory training and certification courses.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Good analytical and logical skills
- Attention to detail
- Must be computer savvy and able to learn and adapt to different contract management platforms Good written and verbal communication skills enabling efficient comprehension of clients’ documents, codes, abstracts and other deliverables
- Responsiveness – Sensitive to client deadlines
- Team Player – Ability to co-operate and work as a team and encourage colleagues; maintains positive attitude contributing to team morale
- Proficiency in MS-Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelors/Master’s degree and Law degree (LLB or LLM) from accredited, reputable institutions
- Attorney with 0-2 years of relevant contract review (preferably in a multinational corporation, in-house legal team or law firm handling similar work)
Ideally, you’ll also have:
Contract Lifecycle Management technology is attractive, but not essential.
What they Look For:
They look for candidates with proven capabilities in driving multiple projects, with exception client management and project management experience.
How to Apply:
Candidates may apply here (click here)
