Senior Legal Counsel

Maxsearch; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 160.000 - 200.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading legal services organization is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel in São Paulo, Brazil. This role involves managing complex commercial contracts, supporting corporate development activities, and ensuring compliance with local laws. With over 8 years of legal experience required, candidates must possess strong negotiation and communication skills, along with fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. This position offers a dynamic work environment within an international legal team.

Qualificações

• Excellent interpersonal skills are necessary.
• 8+ years of full-time practice as a licensed attorney.
• Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Responsabilidades

• Handle all legal matters pertaining to the region.
• Directly support the VP, Region South America.
• Manage complex commercial contracting matters.

Conhecimentos

Negotiation

Contract management

Communication

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Formação académica

Graduate from a top-tier law school

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Description

Legal department is responsible for providing legal support and assistance to the Group, including more than twenty subsidiaries.

The work is carried out in close cooperation with the other functions within the company and active participation in the day-to-day business.

The legal department has offices in Stockholm, U.K., Hong Kong, Beijing, China, ATLANTA, and Sao Paulo.

The Senior Legal Counsel, Brazil is an emerging legal leader with demonstrated expertise in

• (1) sophisticated transactional matters, including negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts;
• (2) general corporate legal and business matters within the assigned region / territory; and
• (3) litigation management.

Reports to the SVP Legal Affairs, Americas with a dotted line to the V.P., Region South America.

This position is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil and is part Americas Legal Shared Service Center (SSC), which provides Legal support for Elekta's activities within North America and South America.

Responsabilidades e atribuições

• Handles all legal matters pertaining to Region South America and Brazilian legal entity.
• Directly supports the VP, Region South America and is a member of the RSA Management Team.
• Works closely with all attorneys in the legal group and shall be part of a dedicated, productive, high quality, and high energy international legal team.
• Incorporates CIA Values and quality systems into all department functions and responsibilities.
• Responsible for advising assigned clients with regard to any and all other legal issues.
• Interacts with senior leadership on key corporate transactions by providing prompt, practical, and commercial oriented advice.
• Handles complex commercial contracting matters, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing a variety of contracts for various business units.
• Manages litigation, arbitration, settlement negotiations and outside legal resources.
• Assists with acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings.
• Collaborates, facilitates, and implements legal and risk management strategies to assigned business units.
• Develops and implements best practices, including the proactive development of forms, templates, and training materials to streamline transactional processes.
• Acts as a resource / mentor for other members of the team.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested by senior management.
• Develops and provides training to business clients.

Requisitos e qualificações

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required.

Employees must be able to read, speak, write, and comprehend the English language.

• Graduate from a top-tier law school with strong academic credentials.
• Member in good standing with the relevant local bar association (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of full-time practice as a licensed attorney with a mix of top-tier law firm and in-house legal experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and efficient.
• Strong sense of ethics, integrity, and sound judgement.
• Must have an attitude that no job is too big or too small, must be client / customer focused, and must accept responsibility for and own outcomes.
• Must be able to strike sensible and practical balance between legal risks and the need to do business.
• Adept at working in a fast-paced, high activity environment with smart and creative people.
• Must work well with all functions and at all levels within Elekta.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to find practical solutions and provide practical guidance.
• Must be a team player.
• Superb oral and written communication skills.
• Self-starter with strong inter-personal skills, and the ability to efficiently prioritize and handle multiple requests from several internal clients.
• Strong negotiation, oral and written communication, presentation, training, organizational, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as the ability to lead with strong organizational, time management, and project management skills, including experience developing creative solutions to transactional problems.
• Strong commercial transactions experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in sophisticated transactional matters, negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts.
• Experience managing litigation and outside counsel.
• General understanding of laws and regulations relating to patient / data privacy, corporate compliance, anti-corruption and anti-competition.
• Knowledge of the Medical Device Industry, including Regulatory knowledge (FDA, MDR, etc.) is a plus.
• Sound and relatively broad knowledge of general business and commercial, contract, and commercial law.
• Must speak and write Portuguese, Spanish and English fluently.