Senior Counsel - Anti-trust & Competition
Our Client, a global leading technology company is looking to bring on a Senior Counsel, Anti-trust and Competition to their Legal team. This individual will provide strategic guidance and legal support to senior management & c-suite, leading complex high-dollar value business deals with distributors and channel partners. This individual will also handle legal matters such as anti-trust and competition, commercial contracts, corporate governance, compliance, and IT projects.
Title: Senior Counsel
Directly Reports to: VP and General Counsel of EMEA
Location: Remote, strongly preferred in Chicago, IL
Compensation: 210k - 220k with bonuses and benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Master knowledge of the overall business, with an intimate understanding of the region or business unit, and becomes embedded with key business team as a trusted partner
- Serves as primary legal representative for the region or business unit, offering proactive solutions and risk mitigation strategies
- Acts as senior subject matter expert on all country-specific legal requirements and provides legal counsel on a wide array of areas, including Commercial strategy, anti-trust & competition, data privacy, and corporate governance
- Bring creative and strategic ideas to C-suite executives to continue to grow the company
- Keeps abreast of legislative changes with a focus on antitrust/competition law, and proactively drives understanding across legal teams
- Ensures proper due diligence and compliance with corporate policies and applicable laws
- Drafts contracts of varying complexity, including contracts for which there are no existing templates and that require significant creativity
- Promotes common tools, processes, practices and is a strong participant in departmental IT projects.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience, including anti-trust within an in-house legal department
- JD from accredited law school
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