Overview
Legal Counsel Jobs in France at Thomson Legal Recruitment Company
Title: Legal Counsel
Company: Thomson Legal Recruitment Company
Location: France
Excellent opportunity for a Corporate/ Commercial Lawyer to join an award-winning global technology company. This role will be based in France and can be fully-remote working.
Role Profile:
- As Associate Corporate Counsel West Europe, you will play a key role in the EMEA legal team. You will provide cross-regional internal legal support, with a focus on France.
- There will also be opportunities to expand the reach of this role to other EMEA countries based on the team's needs.
- The Associate Corporate Counsel will also be expected to provide strategic input to all France businesses, assessing their needs and putting in place appropriate processes and procedures to ensure they are receiving the legal support they require.
- The Associate Corporate Counsel will therefore be required to have considerable skills in risk assessment and process improvement and be able to work with senior leadership to achieve these goals.
Role Responsibilities:
- Advice, draft, negotiate various types of agreements (sales agreements, collaboration agreements, IT agreements, co-marketing agreements, license agreements, procurement agreements, MSAs, etc).
- Ensure compliance with laws (including MedTech Europe and French anti-gift and sunshine laws), policies and processes.
- Assist with settlements and dispute resolution matters.
- Provide legal advice on matters including healthcare compliance.
- Act as a cross-functional partner on competition law, regulatory, data privacy and intellectual property topics.
- Contribute to the team's harmonization and digitization strategies.
- Align with leadership on priorities and goals.
- Educate and train employees regarding templates, laws, processes and procedures, etc.
- Mentor more junior employees in carrying out contract reviews, negotiations and amendments.
- Be the main legal representative on France leadership teams, including the Country Commercial Leadership team for France as required.
Candidate Requirements:
- Qualified and admitted as a lawyer in France.
- Proven experience of more than 10 years in-house (or in international law firm) in general commercial/transactional legal work (in life science, pharma, biotech industry an advantage).
- Strong experience in the key responsibilities described above.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and negotiation skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and business sense (including the ability to influence business teams).
- Ability to develop processes, to find pragmatic solutions to problems and to prioritize work.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to work in a matrixed, fast paced and changing environment.
- Possess flexibility and ability to think laterally.
- Fluent in English and French.
On Offer:
- On offer is a highly competitive salary and benefits package including bonus and pension.
To Apply:
For a confidential discussion about this position, to request the full job description or to apply, please contact:
David Thomson- Director
London: +44 (0) 203 174 2482
Email: [email protected]
