Posted Nov 23, 2020 22 views
Reports To:
The Legal Manager will report to the Head of the department.
Job Overview:
This position will look after all the legal matters of the company.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- To draft and negotiate the legal and financial terms of a contract.
- To mitigate all legal risks involved during and after the execution of a contract.
- To take the advice of external legal counsels before the execution of a contract.
- To have sufficient knowledge of civil and criminal laws/procedures.
- To effectively manage the cases at different legal foram.
- To engage external legal counsels.
- To appraise the management on the ongoing progress of all the cases.
- To manage the IP Portfolio of the company.
- To effectively follow up the process of registration of trademark and copyright.
- To timely prepare and file opposition/objection against trademark/copyright applied by other parties, which may hurt the legitimate interests of the company.
- To prepare letters/documents for tackling the menace of counterfeiting of trademarks of the company.
- To provide internal legal advice on different issues raised by the management and by different departments of the company.
- To take advice from external legal counsel, if required.
- To conduct policy work of the tobacco sector, specifically related to the annual budget of the country.
- To monitor amendments in the relevant laws governed by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Ministry of Health etc.
- To attend meetings at FBR, Standing Committees etc. and to present the viewpoint of the company on different policy issues.
- To provide input in preparing proposal by the company for the annual budget of the country.
- Any other task assigned by the management from time to time.
Qualification:
Master of Laws degree (preferably from abroad having common law jurisdiction)
Experience:
Minimum 8 years of professional experience.
License:
The incumbent should be enrolled with the Bar Council / Association.
Skills
Job Details
Samsons Group of Companies
pSamsons Group of Companies, a fast growing National Group involved in many businesses like Education, Mines, Textile, Tobacco, Beverages, Snacks and Confectioneries, invites all dynamic and professional people to be a part of our team. Group has a very well established sales network in Pakistan and are involved in Exports to UAE , West and South African Countries also. The main sponsors of the company belong to Rehman family, which is in business since pre-partition. The attractive point in the group of companies is that all the units established were only equity based and no finances for capital expenditure were obtained from any bank. We have an excellent team and popular figures at all tiers. We consider talented employees as an asset and appreciate productive individuals in our organization. Also we believe in learning, improving and self development along with organizational growth. We recognize the employees who take ownership of their responsibilities as a member of the team and welcome positive minds in our Organization. Hope you would like to be the part of highly motivating and self driven team./p
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