Legal Counsel

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom McDonald's Limited Full time

**The Opportunity**:
**The Opportunity**
McDonalds is looking to recruit a highly motivated, proactive and effective real estate lawyer to join a dynamic and focussed inhouse Legal team known for having a friendly and supportive culture and wide-ranging and interesting workload.

**What will my accountabilities be?**

The role will report into Head of Real Estate Practice and will involve the following:

- Undertaking acquisition transactional work and providing legal advice to the business on all matters connected with new restaurant acquisitions
- Supervising and supporting external lawyers on acquisition transactions, and working closely with acquisition surveyors and other members of the Legal team
- Helping the Legal and Development teams achieve targets for new store openings and transactional acquisition work
- Providing day to day advice to colleagues in the Acquisitions, Estates and Construction teams on a variety of queries, both general and transactional
- Working closely with external specialist planning and construction lawyers as appropriate
- Monitoring and reviewing best practice, standard documents, policies and precedents used on acquisitions
- Providing training on real estate legal matters to Real Estate colleagues and others
- Identifying and communicating risks consistent with the both the risk appetite of the business and the legal department and advising accordingly
- Helping to develop the legal skills of more junior members of the team
- Proactively identifying market trends and regulatory changes to improve company policies and procedures, develop communication and training programmes and ensure awareness and compliance across the business.

**What Team will I be a part?**

The Senior Legal Counsel will be a member of the Real Estate sub-team (which consists of four lawyers and one paralegal) and will report into the Head of Real Estate Legal Practice.

**Who are my customers?**
- McDonalds teams including Acquisitions, Construction and Estates


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