Lead Corporate Counsel

Location:   Gurgaon

Industry: Real Estate

About Shubhashray Housing

Shubhashray Housing is a mission driven company. It is a professionally run, debt free company with over 185 employees and projects across 9+ locations in NCR, Gujarat and Rajasthan.  

Learn more:
Website: https://shubhashray.com/about-us/
Impact Video: https://youtu.be/Rd8cLpBq5NU

Our Culture 

We maintain the highest standards of integrity with all stakeholders and partners: our customers, employees, contractors and our site workmen. We take pride in enhancing our customers’ lives even after we have handed over the homes. We have zero tolerance for politicking. We like low-ego and conscientious people whose life mission is to constantly learn. We practice a culture that rewards initiative, a low-cost mindset and deliverability, with little regard for hierarchy or centralisation.  

 If you have the right mix of intelligence, passion and high integrity needed to help us accomplish our goals, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Role Summary 

As the Lead Corporate Counsel, you will own all legal affairs including customer, vendor, and regulatory correspondence and documentation, corporate advisory, fund raising, project financing and complaints handling/litigation for  Shubhashray (and its soon-to-be-launched premium housing brand).

You will brief and coordinate with leading external counsels, including Senior Counsel and former ASG Mr. Paras Kuhad, while reporting directly to the CEO and Directors.

For exceptional performers who demonstrate strategic and business acumen, this role offers a defined path to evolve into P&L-linked leadership—taking charge of a business vertical or project. If you aspire to grow from legal stewardship to business leadership, this opportunity is designed for you.

Key Responsibilities 

• Drafting
• Draft, review and negotiate sale deeds, development agreements, JDAs, PoAs, lease deeds and related documentation for land and development.
• Approvals, compliance and regulatory
• Ensure compliance with applicable real estate, municipal and township laws (including RERA and local building/planning regulations) across all projects.
• Maintain a legal calendar and MIS for all regulatory compliances including licences, sanctions and renewals.
• Contracts and commercial support
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of contracts: customer agreements, vendor/contractor agreements, consultant agreements, service contracts, NDAs and MOUs
• Proactively identify legal and commercial risks in contracts, propose practical solutions and balance legal protection with business speed.
• Customer, sales and collections
• Standardise and periodically update sales documentation 
• Support the sales and collections teams on customer disputes, delay claims, cancellations and settlements, aiming for fast, fair and legally sound resolutions.
• Disputes and litigation
• Manage all litigation and prelitigation, including RERA, consumer, civil, criminal and labour matters relevant to the projects.
• Coordinate with external counsel, prepare briefs, review pleadings/written statements and track hearings and outcomes in a structured manner.
• Business partnership and leadership track
• Work closely with the founder/management on deal structuring, riskreward analysis and strategic decisions for new projects and partnerships. 
• Over time, take ownership of a defined business vertical or project (e.g., one city, one line of business), going beyond pure legal to P&Llinked responsibilities. 

Candidate Profile 

Must have qualifications 

• A.LLB. from a toptier law school; CA/LLM or additional qualifications are a plus. 
• At least 5–7 years of post-qualification experience, with significant time in real estate/ corporate commercial work (law firm or strong inhouse role). 
• Strong academic record.

Skills and attributes:

• Exceptional written and spoken English, with precise drafting. 
• High IQ and problem-solving ability: ability to quickly understand new structures, laws, and business models and simplify complexity for non- 
• High energy and ownership mindset: comfortable handling a high-intensity, multistakeholder environment across sites, HO and external parties. 
• Strong business sense: able to see the commercial picture behind every legal issue and suggest solutions that enable, rather than block, business.
• Impeccable integrity and judgment, especially in dealing with government authorities, customers, vendors and internal teams.

What This Role Offers 

• End-to-end ownership of all legal work in a fast growing, founder-led real estate platform in NCR and Rajasthan.  
• Direct exposure to land deals, project launches, sales, financing and disputes rather than being limited to a narrow subfunction.
• A defined path to grow into a broader business leadership role (e.g., project head / business vertical owner) for someone who demonstrates capability beyond legal.

CTC:  Up to 25 lacs per annum 

If you thrive in high-ownership environments & want to build, not just manage systems, this role is for you. Be part of a transformation journey where business growth and meaningful impact go hand in hand.