Managing Counsel - APAC

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland.

About the Team:

AlphaSense has a great opportunity for a Managing Counsel, APAC based in India to join our growing legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company’s fast-paced environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial growth targets while managing risk and protecting our business.

About the Role:

This role can either be based in our Delhi, Bangalore, Pune offices or remotely in India. The Managing Counsel, APAC will be responsible for a wide range of legal matters with a focus on corporate governance and commercial matters. Familiarity or experience as a generalist dealing with labor and employment laws, dispute resolution, entity level-compliance(s), and other corporate governance legal matters a plus. The Managing Counsel, APAC will report to AlphaSense’s SVP of Legal based out of the United States but will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Sales, People, Security, Procurement, and others, to help AlphaSense achieve its high-growth goals. This role is essential to our growth and will have an immediate impact in our dynamic, fast-paced culture.

Who You Are:

• Fully qualified lawyer and admitted to practice law in India;
• Minimum of 6+ years’ experience with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial customer and vendor agreements and advising on corporate governance related matters for our Indian entities either in-house or with a nationally recognized law firm (or a combination of the two);
• Ability to review and negotiate wide range of commercial contracts including Master Services Agreements, Services Agreements, SOWs, Service Level Agreements, Orders Forms, NDAs; etc.;
• Experience with providing day-to-day legal support to cross-functional stakeholders, including Sales, Procurement, Finance, HR, and leadership teams;
• Strong knowledge of Indian employment and labour laws, including advising stakeholders on labour code compliance, workforce related matters, disciplinary actions, and HR policies;
• Ability to deliver practical, risk-based legal advice on general corporate, regulatory, compliance and operational matters while balancing business objectives and legal risk;
• Experience managing, developing and coaching team members;
• Superior business acumen with an unrivaled commitment and deep-seated need to provide responsive service to our team.