Head Legal - DIAL

JOB PURPOSE

This position is critical and significant from the organizational point of view since this position is responsible for leading & managing the legal department of GHIAL and all its subsidiaries and also providing legal support to joint ventures of GHIAL. Also, this position handles the very important issues with airport regulatory authority and with statutory authorities.

An effective leader, who leads from the front, to provide comprehensive legal advice, evolve effective strategies for resolving legal and regulatory issues, handle all litigations and business transactions, project financing and day to day contracts as well as provide necessary legal support for its joint ventures and concessionaires in airport business, so as to achieve business goals of the organization.    
 

ORGANISATION CHART

The Head Legal will have functional reporting to the Chief Legal Officer – North & West Sectors of Airport Business and also the dotted line reporting to the CEO of DIAL.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accountabilities	Key Performance Indicators
Litigation •    Strategize and handle all the litigation pertaining to DIAL including labour matters •    Handling of critical issues having higher strategic importance	Success Rate Quality of Performance
Regulatory and Project Contracts •    Evolve effective strategies from time to time for handling legal and regulatory issues having high financial impact and policy issues Business •    Support CEO and business heads on the issues involving Government & Regulatory Stake holders like MoCA, AERA, BCAS, DGCA, Customs, State Govt. etc.	Disposal of pending cases Success Rate in government and regulatory issues
Handle Commercial Contracts and Financing Documents •    Support Commercial Heads in devising tender strategies. •    Handle drafting of Concessions and commercial Contracts   •    Handle Contractual compliance and  •    Handle all financing documentations	%age of adherence to TAT Risk minimization and mitigation    Nill or minimal disputes from contracts Smooth fund raising
Digital Initiatives in Legal function  •    Develop and implement e-Litigation Management System •    Support Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) initiatives •    Design, compile and execute the legal compliance system during key project transactions.	%age of application and adherence to e-tools and CLM Compliance %age
Special Projects/Initiatives •    Contribute to Business Excellence – band change •    Department AOP •    Providing complete legal support to all the internal departments	BE Score Budget adherence %age No. of issues closed effectively
Team Development and Management •    Engage with the team to motivate and foster teamwork, understand and address their concerns and provide a collaborative environment for them to develop. •    Coach and train young legal professionals and ensure their competency development in associated areas.	Attrition Rates Employee Engagement Scores

 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES - Additional Details

EXTERNAL INTERACTIONS

• Regulatory Authority (AERA) ;  Various Statutory Authorities (both Central & State)
• Ministry of Civil Aviation
• Judicial and Quasi-judicial authorities, Law Firms and Senior Counsels (High Court and Supreme Court)
• Industry Associations, like APAO

INTERNAL INTERACTIONS

• Promoters
• Group General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer – Airports, North & West Sector
• CEO and all HODs
• Other Sectors’ Legal Heads and other HODs​​​​​​

FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS

• Protecting the interests of the organization in the potential financial litigation matters like UDF, PSF etc.
• Support  in recovery of receivable/debts
• Support in availing the legitimate entit
• The amount involved in arbitrations range between Ten – Hundreds of crores
• The transactions and project financing are generally high value

        The Dimensions of role of Head Legal will broadly cover the following areas:-

 The Litigations:

• Writ petitions by and against DIAL
• Matters before NGT
• Strategic and high sake litigations against government on key policy and contractual issues,
• Arbitrations involving claims and counter claims
• Regulatory litigations before TDSAT, Delhi High Court and Supreme Court
• Matters in labour courts
• Matters before District Court and Consumer Forums
• Criminal Complaints, by and against DIAL

 The Total listed Cases are around 225

• The Transactions:
• Concession agreements for aero and non aeronautical businesses
• License agreements for land and space
• License agreements for non-aeronautical businesses within airports terminals
• Development Agreements for permitted commercial activities on airport land
• Joint Ventures for airport business of DIAL
• Budget Management within AOP
• Team Management
• Handling Digital initiatives

OTHER DIMENSIONS

    DIAL Legal Team below the Legal Head comprises of about 12 members carrying experience ranging from 3-20 years with two senior legal leads and the members below each of them.

 

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Law from a law college of repute is a must and LLM is preferred
• PG Diploma / Diploma in IRPM is desirable
• PG Diploma/Diploma in Business Management would be an added advantage since business acumen will enhance the skills.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• More than 20 yrs. post qualification experience
• The person bears academically strong background with very good understanding of law and practice.
• The person should have been the legal head of at least medium size business conglomerate for at least the last 4-5 years with diverse experience of handling various types of litigations in all courts and tribunals.
• The person should have handled the varied type of transactions in his career
• The person should have handled fairly sized legal team of varied experience
• The person should have dealt with promoters and business heads in the course of his functions
• The person should have good networking with lawyers, tier 1 and tier 2 law firms and senior advocates in Delhi and Mumbai.

COMPETENCIES