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** Position Overview
** Regal Rexnord is seeking a seasoned, business-minded attorney to serve as Senior Corporate Counsel, supporting the Automation & Motion Control (AMC) segment, the Company’s fastest-growing business. Reporting to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC, this role serves as the primary legal partner and second-in-command for segment legal matters, providing day-to-day legal leadership across commercial, operational, and regulatory issues.
This role is suited for a senior commercial attorney with experience advising industrial manufacturers, particularly aerospace, defense, or government‐facing businesses. The Senior Corporate Counsel will understand the demands of operating as a government supplier and will provide practical, execution‐oriented legal guidance that supports growth, manages risk, and drives efficiency and consistency across the segment. The role is primarily U.S.
-focused, with regular interaction across global operations, suppliers, and customers.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Commercial & Segment Legal Leadership
*** Serve as the primary day-to-day legal advisor to the AMC segment and as second-in-command to the VP, Deputy General Counsel – AMC.
* Act as a trusted legal and business partner to segment leadership, sales, supply chain, quality, operations, and engineering teams.
* Serve as a go-to legal resource for routine and complex legal questions across six AMC divisions.
** Commercial Contracting & Protection
*** Lead and support negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of customer, supplier, distributor, and strategic commercial agreements — including large, cross-division and cross-segment agreements.
* Advise on contract structure, pricing, risk allocation, liability, warranty, quality, delivery, indemnification, and termination provisions.
* Support contract execution and lifecycle management, including active enforcement of contract rights on pricing, IP, delivery, and quality obligations.
* Lead and support commercial enforcement matters, including collections on overdue customer payments and enforcement of contractual rights through demand letters and escalation.
* Advise on and support alignment of customer contract risk with downstream supply chain obligations — a growing and increasingly complex area as AMC scales cross-division commercial programs.
* Provide guidance to and support the contract specialist team to drive consistency, efficiency, and adherence to standard processes and playbooks.
** Aerospace, Defense & Government Contracting Support
*** Support commercial and operational matters involving aerospace, defense, and government-facing customers across AMC’s five divisions.
* Demonstrate a working understanding of the government contracting environment, including FAR/DFARS concepts, flow-down requirements, audit exposure, and supplier obligations.
* Advise the business on risks and expectations associated with being a government supplier, including compliance, recordkeeping, pricing, delivery, quality, and termination considerations.
* Partner with Trade Compliance, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, and Operations teams to address regulatory, export controls, sanctions, CMMC compliance, and other trade-related considerations impacting government and defense programs.
** Risk Management, Disputes & Litigation Support
*** Serve as first-line legal advisor on segment-related commercial disputes, claims, quality issues, warranty matters, supply chain disruptions, and customer escalations.
* Partner with head of litigation, internal business stakeholders and outside counsel on segment-specific pre-litigation matters, contract-related matters, litigation support, and government contracting matters, commercial disputes, government contracts, including strategy, fact development, and resolution.
* Provide practical, risk-based guidance that balances legal exposure with business objectives and customer relationships.
** Operational Partnership,…
Title: Senior Corporate Counsel
Company: API Delevan, Inc.
Location: Rockford, USA
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