Senior Commercial Counsel

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom World Courier Management Ltd. Full time

About the Role

The Senior Counsel position at World Courier Management Ltd. is a senior counsel role within the legal team, reporting to the Associate General Counsel. The key focus of the role is to support the company's contract negotiations, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and related activities.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements to ensure that these contracts accurately reflect the company's strategy and objectives and minimize exposure to legal and regulatory risk.
  • Provide support to the business on global contracting strategy, contract language review, and external risk assessment.
  • Promote the company's legal strategy and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations as the business expands into different jurisdictions and adjacent markets/services.
  • Independently handle complex legal projects, utilizing relevant technical legal skills and provide legal advice on legal matters and issues arising, with minimal supervision.
  • Represent the company and relevant client groups on regular business contract negotiations and other business matters, including NDAs, commercial services agreements, quality agreements, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance.
  • Demonstrate decision-making capability, in particular offering both business-oriented and legally compliant solutions to clients.
  • Manage multiple matters and effectively prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely and efficient manner.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Minimum of 3 to 4 years of post-qualification experience as a lawyer in the UK, an EU country, or US, combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas of legal practice (ideally, commercial law with experience of drafting and negotiating commercial services agreements).
  • Strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective, and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters or in a particular specialty practice area (ie commercial and contracts law).
  • Good working knowledge of corporate and commercial law, including contract drafting and negotiation and settlement of claims.
  • Adept at handling significant legal projects, matters, and issues with good to excellent technical legal skills and expertise.
  • Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
  • Comfortable supervising external counsel and monitoring associated legal spend.
  • Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively.
  • Ability to follow and interpret legal trends in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Ability to communicate fluently and effectively in English, both orally and in writing.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, negotiating skills, and leadership skills.
  • Strong organizational skills; attention to detail and strong presentation skills.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Additional language skills to a native or business fluent standard would be an advantage, given the global nature of World Courier's business.

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