BMW Group
Senior Legal Counsel
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Summary of Role
This is a broad-ranging in-house legal role providing maternity cover within the UK & Ireland Legal Department. The role supports BMW Group companies, focusing on corporate law and corporate transactions, company secretarial, governance and board administration matters, corporate real estate, project-based real estate and construction matters, commercial contracts, legal operations, SRA compliance, ISO certification and environmental matters.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Law, Company Secretarial & Governance
- Provide legal and governance support to BMW Group companies in the UK and Ireland.
- Advise on company law, corporate governance, directors’ duties, corporate approvals and signing authorities.
- Manage board and company secretarial matters, including proactive administration of board meetings, minutes, resolutions, director changes and statutory filings.
- Support corporate transactions, pension projects, securitisation programmes and governance-related initiatives.
- Act as a key contact for auditors and support statutory reporting and governance disclosures.
- Monitor, interpret and implement developments in corporate law and corporate governance, including the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), Companies House reforms, corporate transparency requirements and other regulatory developments.
Real Estate, Construction & Environmental
- Provide legal advice and strategic support in relation to the BMW Group’s UK and Ireland property portfolio and associated real estate law matters.
- Support property transactions, lease matters, strategic real estate projects and construction-related work.
- Review, draft and negotiate property and project documentation and coordinate external advisers.
- Advise on environmental and sustainability matters affecting the business.
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Legal Operations & Compliance
- Support legal operations, legal technology and AI initiatives.
- Oversee SRA compliance, ISO certification and legal function governance requirements.
- Contribute to legal procurement and manage legal subscriptions for the team.
Commercial Contracts
- Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts across the business.
- Provide practical legal advice on contractual, governance and risk matters.
Skills and experience
- Qualified solicitor or senior in-house lawyer with substantial relevant experience.
- Strong corporate law, company secretarial, corporate governance, board advisory and corporate transaction experience.
- Strong corporate secretariat management skills overseeing many legal entities with experience of managing hybrid board meetings with multiple stakeholders joining virtually. Ensuring timely provision of board papers.
- Experience advising on commercial contracts, real estate and/or construction-related matters.
- Ability to advise senior stakeholders confidently and independently across a broad range of legal and governance matters.
- Experience managing a high-volume, varied workload across multiple legal disciplines.
- Excellent drafting, judgement, organisation and stakeholder management skills.
- Pragmatic and commercially focused, with the ability to identify legal risk and provide proportionate, business-oriented advice.
- Experience of Irish company law, legal operations, pensions, securitisations, SRA compliance, ISO, audit and/or environmental matters would be advantageous.
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About BMW Group
At BMW Group, we are committed to offering our employees the right balance between work and personal life. We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer and for most roles, it could be possible to agree flexible hours, job share, compressed hours or part-time working hours and so please discuss your individual requirements as part of the application process so we can try to agree a suitable arrangement. [For this role, we also support a hybrid model which combines remote and office working.] #LI-Hybrid
We also have several employee resource groups. If you’d like to speak confidentially to any of these groups before applying for a role, please email us directly at Recruitment.Farnborough@bmwgroup.com and we can arrange an informal discussion.
Successful candidates will be required to complete background screening checks and the offer of employment will be subject to results which we consider are satisfactory. Checks will include references, right to work, IT system Compliance Integrity Check (COIN), CV and relevant qualifications. Checks may also include criminal records, adverse financial (credit), directorships, address, internet research and/or driving licence. If you have any queries on any of these checks, please discuss with us and we will be happy to go through with you in more detail.
We are proud to be a part of the Disability Confident scheme. The scheme supports employers to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to the workplace.
At the BMW Group, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruiting decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants.
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