Corporate Legal Counsel

EA First; Ely; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Corporate Legal Counsel to provide robust legal support in M&A and company law. The role involves drafting contracts, advising on legal risks, and working closely with the Head of Legal. Offering hybrid working and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Benefits package

Qualifications

• Around 5 years PQE or equivalent in experience.
• Good understanding of company law.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating contracts.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support for M&A transactions.
• Draft and negotiate a full suite of contractual documents.
• Advise the board on commercial and legal risk.

Skills

Legal advice

Contract negotiation

M&A

Company law

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Job description

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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

Up to £70,000 per annum + competitive benefits

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Legal Services

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