Legal consultant – Entity Set-up & Compliance

Taylor Root Dusseldorf; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known legal consulting firm in London is seeking a contractor/legal consultant to support a carve-out project within a major PE firm. The role involves coordinating legal entity setup and compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in legal compliance and stakeholder management. Competitive day rate and immediate start offered.

Qualifications

• Experienced solicitor with company secretarial experience.
• Experience in carve-out projects and associated legal work.

Responsibilities

• Support design for target corporate stack, coordinating with advisors.
• Build detailed corporate stack set-up implementation plan.
• Track implementation during sign-to-close, managing timing risks.

Skills

Experience in legal entity set up and compliance

Stakeholder management

Organization skills

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

This is a contractor/ legal consultant position to support an operating partner within a well known PE firm to conduct asset transaction an carve-out project and set-up work for a global corporate business.

Contract duration will likely be 3-6 months.

Situation

• Carve-out of a mid-sized software business from large global corporate
• Asset deal work support (legal entity set-up and transfer preparation led by the buy-side, over the sign to close phase)
• Business operating in 15+ jurisdictions

Scope / Role

Global legal entity set-up and compliance to include but not limited to:

• Entity registration & documentation
• Cosec / registered address
• Legal requirements
• Tax registrations
• Statutory filings
• Tax compliance direct & indirect
• Payroll compliance

• Support design for target corporate stack, in coordination with advisors (lawyers, corporate service provider)
• Build detailed corporate stack set-up implementation plan, factoring in local lead-times
• Track implementation of the set-up plan during sign-to-close ; actively manage timing risks
• Map and track entity compliance status (legal, tax, filings, payroll..) and coordinate work with external partners and internal functions to fill gaps
• Be the single point of contact for the external corporate service provider
• Coordinate the work with the internal functions (Finance, HR, Legal)
• Centralise and organise the business data required to run the stack going forward (eg cosec docs, local vendors contacts, etc)

Experience Required

• Experience in legal entity set up and compliance
• Experience of carve out projects and the legal, risk and compliance work that comes with such projects
• Experienced solicitor with company secretarial experience and experience in corporate transactions/ asset transactions
• Excellent stakeholder management experience required
• Organisation and communication skillest to be a key strength

Day rate: Competative – use the above quoted rate as a likely guide

Start date: ASAP

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