Director - Legal

About Tres Vista:

Tres Vista is a global enterprise whose business model is built to deliver enduring value. Tres Vista combines best practices, technology enabled execution, and industry-leading talent to drive meaningful results. By integrating advisory capabilities with scalable delivery, Tres Vista helps clients operate smarter and grow stronger. Tres Vista’s services include investment diligence, industry research, valuation, fund administration, accounting, and data analytics.

About Department:
The Legal department at Tres Vista is responsible for ensuring agreements entered into with its clients, vendors and third parties are compliant with Tres Vista’s contracting requirements, applicable local regulations as well as providing advisory support to stakeholders, research into applicable laws and regulations in geographies where Tres Vista operates, negotiating terms of engagement with vendors and drafting legal documents as required by the company.

The Role & Responsibilities:

Contract Management:

▪ Draft, review, negotiate, and advise internal stakeholders and negotiate with external counterparts on various commercial agreements, including third-party agreements, operations and services agreements etc.

▪ Provide time-sensitive support on a wide array of legal inquiries in connection with the contracts

Legal Strategy and Advisory:

▪ Collaborate with the Senior Leadership and Management of Tres Vista to develop and lead the implementation of legal strategy

▪ Provide educated legal advice to senior management, board members and other executives on various legal matters

▪ Review and drive the policies in compliance with legal regulations (e.g. Code of Ethics, HR compliance, POSH, Etc.) Entity Management, Formation and Structure:

▪ Advising on the formation and structuring of potential new legal entities, such as corporations, partnerships, and LLCs. This includes selecting the appropriate entity type and jurisdiction

▪ Ensuring the firm complies with all relevant laws, regulations, and corporate governance requirements. This involves overseeing board meetings, maintaining corporate records, and filing necessary reports Risk Identification and Management:

▪ Identify and consult on legal risks in connection with any external partnerships, regulatory, cyber security, intellectual property requirements, and any other matters as needed

▪ Serve as lead counsel on strategic deals, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries

External Counsel Management:

▪ Liaise with specialist external global counsel (UK, USA, etc.) ▪ End-to-end management and coordination of legal notices to be sent or received by Tres Vista

Leadership and Managerial:

▪ Driving improvements in productivity and efficiency using appropriate efficiency metrics (KPIs) defined for department success

▪ Devising new strategies for hiring and training the Legal team

▪ Working with internal teams to determine staffing requirements, budgets, and forecasts for the team ▪ Improving the service quality by establishing new processes, steps, checks, and balances

▪ Guiding, mentoring, and training the VPs in their role and bringing them up to speed

Prerequisites:

▪ Understanding of a wide variety of laws applicable to financial services firms ▪ Well-versed with corporate legal compliance, policies and framework

▪ Good in anticipating and identifying legal issues of the Company and proactively developing effective legal strategies and practical solutions

▪ Proactive and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail

▪ Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills

▪ Highly collaborative with team orientation

▪ Ability to handle ambiguity

Experience:

▪ 20+ years of experience as part of an in-house legal team of a corporate company

Education:

▪ Graduate/Postgraduate in Law

Compensation:

▪ The compensation structure will be as per industry standards