Legal Associate

Overview

Review, negotiate, and close commercial agreements at Emergent, working closely with business, product, sales, procurement, and legal teams in a fast-moving technology environment.

What you'll do

• Review and redline commercial contracts end-to-end, including customer agreements, enterprise MSAs, vendor and SaaS agreements, consultant agreements, and NDAs.
• Work through a high volume of contracts every day, keeping turnaround fast while flagging the risks that matter.
• Mark up clauses such as liability, indemnity, IP ownership, confidentiality, data protection, and termination against standard positions.
• Take contracts from first review through counterparty comments to signature, and track status.
• Review data processing terms and privacy clauses with an eye on India's DPDP Act and GDPR.
• Give business, sales, and procurement teams clear, quick answers on contract questions.
• Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, and playbooks, and suggest fixes when the same issue keeps coming up.
• Keep contract trackers and records accurate across India and US entities.
• Spot recurring issues in contracts and flag them early so the team can update standard terms.

What you'll need

• 1 to 3 years of experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• LLB from a reputed law school.
• Hands-on experience marking up NDAs, MSAs, vendor and SaaS agreements, and customer contracts.
• Working knowledge of data privacy terms, including the DPDP Act and GDPR.
• Basic IP and confidentiality concepts.
• Sharp attention to detail, with the judgment to spot the risks that matter and move quickly on the rest.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and the confidence to push back politely and explain legal risk in plain language.
• Curiosity about AI and technology contracts, and a willingness to learn quickly.
• Ownership mindset: take a contract, see it through, and ask for help early.

Nice to have

• Experience reviewing commercial contracts at a technology, consumer, or SaaS company or a strong law firm.
• Bar Council enrolment.
• Comfort working at speed in a startup or high-volume contracts environment.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.