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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, based in Mumbai.
We are looking for a strong commercial lawyer with excellent communication and analytical skills, who is self-motivated, able to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision, and has the skillset and leadership mindset to effectively interact with business units and other support functions at all levels across Visa to influence business directions and bring about 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:
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.
Qualifications
What you will need:
We are looking for a strong leader who can bring a breadth of experience and knowledge to our business. As a candidate, you should have:
What will also help:
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.
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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