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Senior Legal Counsel
Senior Legal Counsel
Our client is a global leader in precision engineering, manufacturing, and technology innovation. With a strong heritage in advanced manufacturing and metrology, we deliver cutting-edge solutions across industries including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and electronics.
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Legal Counsel at the UK head office to become part of the global legal, compliance and secretarial team (“L&S”).
Person specification
As part of the L&S team, your focus will be providing pragmatic legal advice and support across a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, while supporting our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity and Involvement.
You will have superior interpersonal skills to influence and inform your stakeholders, both within the L&S team and the wider business.
Key responsibilities
- Support the business by leading on a range of specialist corporate legal matters, including corporate M&A and strategic transactions
- Review, draft, and negotiate high-value, complex commercial contracts with customers, sales intermediaries, suppliers, service providers, and other key business partners
- Support the business with responses to tenders and customer queries
- Support L&S change and process improvement projects that underpin the business’s key objectives across multiple disciplines
- Support the business with day-to-day legal queries and issues
- Assist in maintaining templates, playbooks, procedures, and other know-how materials
- Provide practical solutions to complex legal problems as a key business partner
- Procure and manage external specialist counsel (as required)
- Support the wider legal team as required, both in the UK and internationally
- Contribute to the growth of the L&S team by sharing knowledge, delivering training, mentoring, supervising or managing more junior colleagues
- Conduct legal research as necessary
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- Qualified solicitor with a minimum of 6 years PQE and experience in delivering pragmatic legal advice in a demanding environment
- Highly experienced in advising on corporate M&A matters and various strategic transactions
- Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills
- Excellent attention to detail and drafting skills
- Superior analytical skills and a creative, flexible approach to problem solving
- An ability to interact with people at all levels in the business
- Impeccable integrity, a ‘can do’ attitude, and a willingness and ability to lead by example
- An appetite to learn continually and share your experience and knowledge.
Desirable
- Experience in any of the following areas of law:
- Real estate and property
- Construction
- Employment
- An understanding of the challenges of a fast-moving, revenue generating business (ideally in the technology, manufacturing and/or engineering sectors).
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