Senior Legal Counsel – Litigation

About the company:

A leading multinational within industry is looking to appoint a Senior Legal Counsel – Litigation. The business is looking for a disputes lawyer with a wide variety of experience of cross-border litigation or arbitration to provide a broad range of high-quality legal advice on highly strategic and sensitive matters. You will be dedicated to the resolution of material disputes and investigations across the Group.

About the role:

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Manage high-value or sensitive litigation and arbitration matters across Europe, Americas and Africa.
• Pre-action advice to business stakeholders, support with negotiating, evaluating and documenting settlements.
• Help identify problem areas and spot trends to minimise exposure to litigation risks.
• Work alongside other key business functions and stakeholders to ensure effective management.
• Partner with regional and global legal teams to ensure alignment with group-wide legal strategies and best practices.

About you:

• UK or US qualified disputes lawyer with a minimum of 4 PQE, with a wide variety of experience of cross-border litigation or arbitration.
• Trained at an international law firm with some in-house experience gained on secondment or in a position at a multinational.
• Comfortable working on an autonomous basis, strong business acumen, high quality drafting and comfortable reporting to C-suite are all paramount to perform well in this function
• Business-oriented mindset with the ability to provide pragmatic and solution-focused legal advice.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a global business in a high calibre legal team with direct access to senior stakeholders.

To explore this exciting opportunity further, please apply or get in touch directly at [email protected]

Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

Please note that your personal information will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.