Corporate Counsel

IHG; Región Centro; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts in Spain (Castilla-La Mancha) seeks an experienced legal professional to provide counsel and support for hotel development and operational matters across MLAC. You will draft and negotiate pivotal agreements, structure transactions, and coordinate due diligence with external counsel across jurisdictions.

The role requires 3–4 years of relevant experience, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and fluency in English and Spanish (Portuguese a plus).

Qualifications

• Law degree and authorization to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction.
• 3–4 years of relevant legal experience, preferably in corporate, commercial, real estate, franchising, or hospitality matters.
• Transactional experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Fluent in English and Spanish; Portuguese is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary legal support for hotel development across MLAC, including managed, franchised, conversion, mixed-use, and branded residential projects.
• Draft and negotiate letters of intent, franchise agreements, hotel management agreements, key money agreements, guarantees, confidentiality agreements, amendments, side letters, and related documents.
• Support development transactions from initial deal structuring and internal approval through due diligence, negotiation, signing, and closing.
• Advise the Development team on ownership structures, commercial terms, project milestones, fees, guarantees, financing arrangements, termination rights, and other transaction matters.
• Coordinate legal and compliance due diligence and manage local outside counsel across MLAC jurisdictions.
• Support franchise disclosure and other regulatory requirements applicable to development transactions.
• Provide additional legal support to hotel operations and internal business teams on commercial contracts, owner matters, operational issues, and other day-to-day legal needs.
• Identify and escalation material legal, commercial, compliance, and reputational risks.

Skills

English

Spanish

Portuguese

Education

Law degree & bar admission

Job description

Role Purpose

Under the guidance of a Vice President -Associate General Counsel or Senior Counsel, provides legal counsel, support and representation to the department or division served. May perform complex legal assignments in area of specialization

Key Accountabilities

• Provide primary legal support for hotel development across MLAC, including managed, franchised, conversion, mixed-use, and branded residential projects.
• Draft and negotiate letters of intent, franchise agreements, hotel management agreements, key money agreements, guarantees, confidentiality agreements, amendments, side letters, and related documents.
• Support development transactions from initial deal structuring and internal approval through due diligence, negotiation, signing, and closing.
• Advise the Development team on ownership structures, commercial terms, project milestones, fees, guarantees, financing arrangements, termination rights, and other transaction matters.
• Coordinate legal and compliance due diligence and manage local outside counsel across MLAC jurisdictions.
• Support franchise disclosure and other regulatory requirements applicable to development transactions.
• Provide additional legal support to hotel operations and internal business teams on commercial contracts, owner matters, operational issues, and other day-to-day legal needs.
• Identify and escalation material legal, commercial, compliance, and reputational risks.

Key Skills & Experiences

Education

• Law degree and authorization to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction

Experience

• 3 to 4 years of relevant legal experience, preferably in corporate, commercial, real estate, franchising, or hospitality matters.
• Transactional experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Practical business judgment and ability to communicate legal issues clearly to business teams.
• Ability to manage multiple transactions across different MLAC jurisdictions.
• Professional fluency in English and Spanish. Portuguese is an advantage.
• Hospitality, franchise, hotel management, or real estate development experience is preferred.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated ability to draft a variety of legal documents.
• Demonstrated project management experience in organizing, planning and executing large-scaleprojects from conception through implementation.
• Demonstrated experience in leading, advising and developing people.
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, outside counsel, vendors and other third parties, senior management and staff.

Company

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You'll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there's Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we've transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That's why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance - working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that's why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.