Executive: Legal

This role shall support all legal, contractual, and compliance requirements for the company’s logistics operations. Also review and manage contracts, handle claims and disputes, ensure statutory compliance, and provide actionable legal advice to the operations, commercial, procurement, and finance teams.

This role acts as the primary internal point of contact for operational legal issues across depots, transport vendors, shipping lines, and customers.

• Container leasing agreements
• Storage/yard agreements
• Customer service agreements (CSA/SLAs)
• Handle demurrage/detention disputes with customers and shipping lines.
• Coordinate with external lawyers on litigation, arbitration, and recovery matters.
• Support operations teams during disputes on shortages, misdeclaration, accidents, or cargo contamination.
• Maintain MIS for all open and closed cases.

• Provide legal guidance on container repairs, vendor liabilities, loss/damage disputes, and insurance claims.
• Review operational SOPs, ensuring legal safeguards are included.
• Work with procurement to legally vet all vendor onboardings.
• Review customer credit terms, penalty clauses, and payment risks.
• Support business development with compliant contract templates and proposal review.
• Identify legal risks across container operations, CFS/ICD processes, and transport networks.
• Draft internal regulations, DoA (Delegation of Authority), and risk-control processes.
• Conduct legal training for Ops/Commercial teams on documentation standards and liabilities.
• Ensure company assets (containers, yards, equipment) are legally protected.

The candidate should be capable of handling vessel claims in addition to container claims and should have proven expertise in managing cargo liability matters.

• Timely contract review and legal support delivery.
• Effective handling of claims and disputes.
• Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Reduction of legal and contractual risks.

• LLB or BA LLB mandatory
• 6–8 years of experience in logistics, shipping, container leasing, freight forwarding, or related domain
• Experience managing contracts, compliance, and claims in a logistics environment.
• Knowledge of legal compliance with regards to SOLAS, MARPOL, MLC, flag state requirements etc.
• Exposure to arbitration, negotiation, and vendor/customer dispute management