About the Role
Serve as a senior legal counsel for the global Corporate Legal Affairs team, delivering complex strategic projects alongside corporate transactions, governance, reorganizations, intra-group arrangements, board secretarial functions, and entity management.
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Responsibilities:
- Drive the development and implementation of group legal strategy and contribute to the organization’s general business strategy.
- Provide proactive, in-depth, business-focused advice and execution.
- Manage and assist with legal responses to corporate and wider matters encountered by the company and internal stakeholders, providing sound and robust legal advice and support, including leading external communications on legal matters and negotiations with external parties.
- Lead, advise, and support a diverse range of transactional, reorganization, and corporate governance initiatives.
- Assist in transactional activities, including M&A, majority and minority investments, joint ventures, and restructurings globally.
- Draft and review legal documents and provide holistic risk assessments and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk across multiple areas of the company.
- Partner with cross-functional and regional teams to provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility.
- Provide training and counsel to non-legal colleagues to promote greater awareness and risk management across the company.
- Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws.
- Identify legal framework developments and promote consistency of approach in legal matters among internal stakeholders.
- Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, advising and implementing solutions to address identified issues.
Requirements:
- Qualified to practice law in a leading jurisdiction with significant corporate legal experience.
- Typically 8+ years of post-qualification experience (as a guide) at a top law firm and/or in-house at a well-established corporate or high-growth company.
- Ideally trained in a reputable law firm within the corporate practice with a focus on corporate transactional work and general corporate governance.
- Proven expertise in managing complex projects across multiple jurisdictions globally.
- Strong legal technical expertise, exceptional business acumen, and excellent people skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced in-house environment is essential.
- Strong team player with good business sense.
- Hands-on approach with the ability to independently manage complex projects while collaborating as part of a team.
- Ability to devise and execute creative solutions to meet current and evolving business needs.
- Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.
Why Join Us
- Shape the future of finance.
- Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
- Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment with autonomy.
- Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
- Competitive salary and company benefits.
- Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).
The organization is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, believing that having a diverse workforce is fundamental to success.
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