Corporate Legal Counsel

EA First; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Corporate Legal Counsel to provide effective legal support, particularly in mergers and acquisitions. This role involves advising on company law and managing various legal risks while collaborating closely with the Head of Legal. The ideal candidate will have around 5 years of PQE, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to manage multiple work streams effectively. This position offers hybrid working and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Around 5 years PQE or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of mergers and acquisitions and company law.
• Ability to draft and negotiate various legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Advise the board on mergers and acquisitions, finance, and commercial law.
• Negotiate contracts with external parties.
• Manage risks and provide legal advice in meetings.

Skills

Mergers and Acquisitions

Company Law

Contract Negotiation

Risk Management

Commercial Law

Job description

Looking for a new legal counsel role which includes M&A?

This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Head of Legal on a variety of interesting projects where you'll be providing an effective and efficient legal support function to the business and its customers.

As Corporate Legal Counsel you'll provide robust advice and representation, assist with mergers and acquisitions, have a good understanding of company law and be able to draft and negotiate a full suite of first class, clear, concise and appropriately balanced contractual documents. This includes documents such as disclosure letters, loan agreements, security documents and ad-hoc pieces of work including insolvency and pre-action litigation issues.

The key areas of the role include:

• Provide advice to the board and wider business in relation to mergers and acquisitions, finance and associated company and commercial law
• Support with negotiating with external parties
• Ensuring risks are appropriately managed
• Conduct or contribute to meetings - advising colleagues with regard to commercial and legal risk, new legal issues that may arise and ensuring they understand the duties and responsibilities set out in agreements
• Provide regular and bespoke reports to the Head of Legal and others, in respect of legal and contractual lessons learned and identifying ways to avoid similar issues arising in the future

We're ideally looking for around 5 years PQE, or the equivalent in experience.

This role is one where you'll be a trusted advisor, collaborative and someone who can build rapport and develop effective relationships.

Prioritising and managing multiple workstreams is important along with experience in creating the relevant suite of contractual and working document templates as well as negotiating small, medium and multi-million pound contracts and contract variations in the B2B finance space ideally.

Overall this is a great opportunity to work closely with, and learn from, the Head of Legal, in this Corporate Legal Counsel position which is offering hybrid working, along with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Location:

Near Ely, Cambridgeshire (Hybrid working available)

Hours:

Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

Salary:

Up to 70,000 per annum + competitive benefits

EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancy.