Legal - Corporate Governance - Manager
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
COMPANY OVERVIEW
KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.
KKR Gurugram office provides best in class services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drive organization wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflects KKR's global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office contains multifunctional business capabilities and is integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR, globally.
TEAM OVERVIEW
KKR’s Legal & Compliance team is integral to all matters pertaining to trading, anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, etc., to protect the firm, our clients and investors, and our reputation. The team advises on agreements, fund related aspects, compliance, oversight, monitoring, and reporting of the firm’s trading platform and all activities. Additionally, the Legal & Compliance team drafts and updates KKR’s policies and procedures to ensure accountability for legal and regulatory requirements and adherence to our high ethical standards. The team provides support to KKR employees by advising on and creating precautions for personal conflicts matters including social media usage, personal investing, outside business activities, etc.
POSITION SUMMARY
The current role in the Gurugram office is for a generalist Paralegal to provide support on various CoSec and Corporate Governance matters, majorly in relation to entity lifecycle maintenance, documentation collection, handling meetings, and regulatory filings.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assist in managing KKR’s corporate entities, ensuring statutory meetings and filings are duly held and filed on time, record keeping for such entities are kept accurate and up to date.
2. Handle on-going legal administrative matters such as annual returns, tax returns, legal entity change of name, board of director changes, and signatory changes.
3. Monitoring KKR’s corporate entities’ business licenses and registrations to ensure they are kept current and valid.
4. Work closely with other internal business groups and external entity management providers and legal counsels, including acting as a point of contact for queries related to legal entity management.
5. Undertake required legal regulatory filings in various jurisdictions on deal related matters.
6. Perform ad-hoc legal administrative reporting and other tasks as required.
7. Manage KKR entities during their legal and corporate life cycle starting from entity creation until its disposal.
8. Timely and accurate execution of corporate secretarial functions, including the organization of board meetings, preparation of minutes and corporate resolutions, changes in directorships, and submission of regulatory filings to relevant authorities, such as Companies House, RCS, etc.
9. Draft and review of intra-group agreements such as interest bearing/ interest free loan agreements, profit participating loan agreements, credit/residual risk hedging agreements, capital contribution agreements, shareholder/share-purchase agreements, amendment agreements, etc.
10. Draft, review, and ensure the accuracy of legal documents with respect to the legislation, signing authority protocols, corporate details, etc.
11. Assist in restructuring and financing processes in collaboration with both internal and external teams and advisors.
12. Actively involve in management of company’s database in collaboration with various stakeholders.
13. Collaboration with clients, fund and product counsels, finance, tax, treasury, acquisition, and sales teams as and when required.
14. Work as a generalist and interact with service providers, advisors, broader KKR Legal and Compliance team as well as other KKR businesses for smooth running of all deals and entities corporate governance.
15. Interface with KKR’s third party entity management system service provider and outside counsel to provide guidance on legal entities.
16. Monitor and oversee the ad hoc mail forwarding that KKR’s registered agents receive at their offices and ensure that those are forwarded to the tax team or deal team or discarded as appropriate.
17. Ability to monitor and manage legal data, upload and store them in compliance with legal and statutory regulations.
QUALIFICATIONS
1. Qualified Company Secretary with a minimum of 5+ years of work experience having an in-depth knowledge and experience of CoSec/ Corporate Governance as a function.
2. Experience in a multinational finance shared services organization, globally recognized law firm and/or private equity firm/alternative asset manager preferred.
3. Experience with legal entity management globally is preferred.
4. Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office.
5. Proficiency in compliance monitoring tools and software.
ATTRIBUTES
1. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to educate and influence stakeholders at all levels.
2. Proficiency in managing projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
3. Well organized; consistently completes projects on-time and focuses on strong attention to detail.
4. Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
5. Exceptional analytical skills to identify challenges and implement effective solutions.
6. Flexibility to navigate changing environments and adjust strategies as needed.
7. Team player, who can also work independently, and work across different cultures and jurisdictions.
8. Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work independently under pressure and to tight deadlines.
9. Displays behaviors of self-reliance.
10. Ability to work with teams across various global office locations.
11. Demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
12. Focuses on delivery excellence and accountability.
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KKR is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable law.