Senior Legal Counsel - India

Analog

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • FULL_TIME
  • Hyderabad
  • India
  • Verified 2026-10-13
  • Source: Analog public ASHBY source

Original job description

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India. On site at the offices of Unseen Realities.

Employment Type: Full Time

Reporting To: Chief Legal Officer, Analog

About Analog and Unseen Realities

Analog is pioneering the era of physical intelligence. Where digital intelligence transformed our online lives, Analog is transforming the lived world, making cities more adaptive, industries more resilient, services more human centered, and experiences more extraordinary.

At the heart of our approach are living world models, continuously updated, enriched by every capture point, every device, every interaction. Within them resides Ana, the Analog Neural Agent. Ana perceives, adapts, and guides, transforming raw data into foresight and orchestration that improves outcomes across sectors, from safeguarding high value assets to enhancing human performance.

Unseen Realities, based out of Hyderabad, Telangana, is part of the Analog group, and serves as Analog's operating entity in India supporting customers and partners in the region. It will also serve as Analog's research and development hub in India, building engineering and applied AI capabilities that feed the global Analog platform. Everyone joining Unseen Realities works as part of the wider Analog group, and has the opportunity to shape how physical intelligence takes root in one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Legal Counsel to lead the full spectrum of Unseen Realities’ legal needs, and serve as the primary legal point of contact for Analog’s business, operations, and opportunities in India. As the first India-based counsel at Unseen Realities, you will work independently and will be the India law and market expert for the Analog legal team. At the same time, you will be a full member of the Analog legal team, working closely with and supported by your colleagues in the Abu Dhabi office.

The successful candidate will take end to end ownership of Indian corporate law and governance, company secretarial processes, commercial contracting, regulatory compliance, and the management of Unseen Realities’ interests in its India joint venture and its participation in wider Analog group arrangements, which together form the core of the role. This is a unique opportunity to shape key business decisions and drive Analog’s growth within a fast evolving technology market in India.

In this highly visible role, you will also lead intellectual property licensing and technology transactions in India, ensuring the protection and proper use of Analog’s intellectual property in customer, supplier and joint venture-facing arrangements, safeguarding Analog’s legal interests while fostering strategic relationships with our partners, as Analog expands its portfolio of physical intelligence-driven products into India.

You will also oversee legal risk management, employment matters, disputes, and legal operations, including the supervision of external counsel and the project management of legal matters across the business.

What You’ll Do

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will own a broad range of legal matters, with a critical focus on Indian corporate law and governance, corporate processes, joint venture management, commercial contracting, regulatory compliance, and a working understanding of intellectual property and technology transaction issues.

You will:

India corporate law, governance and corporate actions

  • Own, with support from external company secretarial providers where appropriate, all corporate and company secretarial processes for Unseen Realities, including convening board and shareholder meetings, preparing agendas, notices, board and shareholder resolutions, circulation resolutions and minutes, and supporting board / committee governance processes.

  • Manage key corporate actions, including share issuances and transfers, dividends and other distributions, amendments to the constitutional documents, maintenance of share capital and shareholding records, and the creation and satisfaction of charges.

  • Manage director and officer appointments, resignations and removals, including director identification number (DIN), know your customer (KYC) requirements and related filings.

  • Oversee the maintenance of statutory registers, statutory filings, and the compliance calendar under the Companies Act, 2013.

  • Coordinate exchange control and foreign investment reporting for inbound investment into Unseen Realities and for any joint venture shareholding, including FC-GPR / FC-TRS filings, and downstream investment reporting under the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules 2019, working with the authorized dealer bank and external counsel where required.

Commercial contracting

  • Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including master services agreements, technology and software arrangements, intellectual property licenses, supplier and subcontractor terms, procurement and services agreements, non-disclosure agreements, data processing / privacy terms, and customer facing terms.

  • Review and negotiate channel, reseller, distribution, system integrator, consortium and joint bidding arrangements, including arrangements entered into in order to respond to requests for proposal, public procurement processes, and tenders in India.

  • Provide legal expertise on memorandums of understanding (MOUs) and partnership agreements, and advise business stakeholders on contractual risk, liability, and compliance considerations.

  • Develop and maintain Indian law contract templates, playbooks and fallback positions for use across the business, streamlining the contracting process and reducing reliance on external counsel.

Analog group and joint venture arrangements

  • Manage Unseen Realities’ interests in its India joint venture or partnership arrangements, including the exercise of its rights and the performance of its obligations under any joint venture or shareholders’ agreements and joint venture constitutional documents, reserved matter approvals, delegation of authority implementation, and support for the directors and shareholder representatives appointed by Unseen Realities.

  • Negotiate and administer the corporate and commercial arrangements between Unseen Realities and its joint venture partners or joint venture entities, and between Unseen Realities and other Analog group companies, including product sales agreements, intellectual property licenses, branding arrangements, technology arrangements, and services arrangements, in each case on arm’s length terms.

  • Coordinate with your colleagues in the Analog legal function on Analog group corporate governance and related party transaction requirements.

Regulatory, risk management and compliance

  • Provide legal advice on Indian regulatory matters and ensure that all agreements and business activities comply with applicable Indian laws and regulations, including the Companies Act, 2013, exchange control and foreign investment rules, data protection under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, labour and employment laws, competition law, anti-bribery and anti-corruption legislation, and sector-specific regulations, as applicable.

  • Support the design, implementation, and maintenance of compliance programs and internal policies, including adapting the Analog group’s compliance and other policies to address local law deviations where necessary.

  • Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate legal and compliance risks to protect Analog’s business in India.

  • Monitor legal and regulatory developments in India to assess impact on the business.

Intellectual Property and licensing

  • Advise on intellectual property ownership and manage intellectual property licensing arrangements in India, ensuring the protection and proper use of the Analog group’s intellectual property, including in customer, partner and joint venture facing contracts.

  • Manage, through external agents, Indian trade mark, patent, copyright and design filings and prosecution, and manage brand use, enforcement, and domain name issues.

Legal operations, cross functional collaboration and management of external counsel

  • Work closely with your colleagues in the Analog legal function and with the India business to ensure that legal considerations are aligned with business strategies and embedded into business operations.

  • Instruct and manage Indian external counsel, company secretarial providers and other advisers, ensuring cost effective and comprehensive legal support and control of legal spend.

Employment and HR legal support

  • Advise the Analog People team on employment matters, including hiring, terminations, disciplinary matters, investigations and employee relations, coordinating with external legal counsels for specialist or sensitive matters.

  • Draft and review employment contracts, consultant and contractor agreements, policies, and internal guidelines.

Litigation and dispute management

  • Manage and oversee, with external counsel, litigation, arbitration, regulatory matters, notices, and pre-litigation correspondence in India.

  • Develop dispute-resolution strategies aligned with business objectives and escalate material disputes to the Analog CLO and relevant business stakeholders.

What You’ll Bring

  • LL.B. or B.A. LL.B. from a recognized Indian university, or an equivalent legal degree enabling enrolment with a State Bar Council in India.

  • Minimum of 10 years of post-qualification experience (PQE), with demonstrable depth in both (i) Indian corporate law and processes, including board and shareholder matters, corporate actions and statutory filings, and (ii) commercial contracts governed by Indian law.

  • Strong background in contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, risk management, and external counsel management, including budget and performance oversight.

  • Ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical business advice in support of business objectives.

  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English.

  • Ability to work independently as, initially, the sole legal resource based in India, and to collaborate as part of a geographically distributed team in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

  • Qualified to practice law in India, including enrolment with a State Bar Council under the Advocates Act 1961, whether current or suspended for the duration of full time salaried employment.

  • Based in Hyderabad, or willing to relocate to Hyderabad, and able to work from the offices of Unseen Realities. Ability to travel within India, and occasionally internationally, as business needs require, would be helpful.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior in-house experience, preferably in a technology business.

  • Experience advising an India subsidiary or India joint venture of a foreign-headquartered or multinational group.

  • Strong experience in Indian intellectual property law, particularly intellectual property licensing, ownership, brand use, and India market technology transactions.

  • Strong working knowledge of technology law, data protection, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the regulatory framework applicable to technology businesses in India, including procurement and tendering by government and public sector customers.

  • Experience of joint venture governance, including exchange control and downstream investment requirements.

  • Experience advising on AI-related legal issues and understanding of the ethical, regulatory, and commercial implications of AI.

  • Proven ability to manage complex legal projects and advise senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.

  • High level of integrity, judgment, discretion, and professionalism.

  • Experience of company secretarial processes, and of working with company secretaries, registrars and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs portal filings.

  • Working proficiency in Hindi or Telugu, in addition to English, would be an advantage but is not essential.

What Working at Analog Offers

Culture: A collaborative, globally minded team building the future of physical intelligence. We value curiosity, courage, and creativity, and we’re united by a belief that technology should amplify human potential rather than replace it.

Impact: The opportunity to work on projects with national and global significance, from adaptive cities and resilient infrastructure to next generation sports, entertainment, healthcare, and energy. Every product you help build contributes to shaping a safer, smarter, more human centered world.

Growth: Outstanding opportunities for learning and career development. You’ll collaborate with leaders across AI, robotics, mixed reality, and systems engineering, while working on industry first, frontier scale solutions.

Rewards: A competitive compensation package.

Unseen Realities is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in accordance with applicable law and without discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic under applicable laws of India.

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