Acquisitions and Merger Legal Counsel Associate Manager

Accenture; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in the Philippines is seeking a senior legal professional to provide support for mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments. You will assist in due diligence, identify risks, and help negotiate and review transactional documents in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The role requires coordinating with M&A stakeholders across geographies, drafting terms, and ensuring compliance with policies.

Qualifications

• Law degree with a minimum of 8 years experience in law firm or as in-house counsel.
• Experience in M&A practice with due diligence and contracting.
• Ability to coordinate teamwork or work as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support to Accenture’s M&A and strategic investment transactions, supporting due diligence and risk mitigation.
• Support key M&A stakeholders across geographies, including deal attorneys and contracting teams.
• Draft, review and negotiate terms of agreements and other documents for target/acquired companies.
• Collaborate with deal attorneys and Legal Integration teams on data room materials and key agreements.
• Train team members and develop checklists and process documents for pre- and post-acquisition support.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and deal teams on legal and commercial issues.
• Ensure contract compliance with company policies and resolves issues.

Skills

Time management

Problem solving

Detail oriented

Specialized expertise

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Law

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Ventures & Acquisitions (V&A) assists in the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic investment transactions, including due diligence, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating acquisitions documents, the target’s agreements and other documentation, advises on legal risks and mitigation alternatives associated with the transactions.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

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JOB SUMMARY:

Complexity:

• Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures.

• Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.

• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or team leads. Generally, interacts with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture.

Authority:

• Requires minimal guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments.

Impact or Decision:

• Decisions often impact the team in which they reside and occasionally impact other teams.

Scope:

• Manages medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide legal support to Accenture’s M&A and strategic investment transactions, supporting legal due diligence exercises, identifying risks and mitigation plans, supporting Accenture’s M&A deal attorney in the negotiation of the transactions and the review of transactional documents in collaboration with legal and non-legal professionals supporting M&A and strategic investment transactions.

• Responsibly provide support to key Accenture M&A stakeholders including M&A deal attorney, Procurement Plus V&A, Contracting, Legal Integration teams and other Legal teams in different geographies.

• Document, review and draft the terms and conditions of different types of agreements and other documents relating to various target/acquired companies in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws, and stakeholders’ requirements.

• Collaborate and coordinate with Accenture’s M&A deal attorney, Legal Integration Managers and Procurement Plus V&A Leads on the review of data room materials, in particular executed client, alliance and supplier agreements of the target companies.

• Train the team members and develop checklists and process documents for pre- and post-acquisition legal support.

• Directly liaising with internal stakeholders and deal teams on various legal and commercial issues.

• Maintain contract / subcontract compliance in line with company policies and procedures and ensures issues are resolved.

• Responsibly works at smaller engagements and/or works within team at a large, complex engagement.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education:Bachelor’s degree in Law.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience at law firm and/or as in-house counsel and experience in coordinating teamwork (or as individual contributor).

• Experience in M&A practice with strong knowledge of M&A transactions, due diligence exercises, general corporate business practices, commercial contracting regulations, subcontracting practices and ability to apply skills creatively to diverse stakeholder needs.

• Demonstrates ability to consistently and responsibly undertake contract drafting to a reasonable standard.

• Strong time-management, prioritization, organizational, problem solving skills.

• Displays a high level of responsiveness and follows through on commitments.

• Detail-oriented, sound judgement, organized, and flexible.

• Demonstrates a specialized subject-matter experience.

WORK REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel may be required.

• Fluency in English and/or any other language(s) depending on geography supported.