Company Lawyer 2YRS PQE + (Top 100 Comp)
- Recruiter
- Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
- Location
- Northern Ireland, County Antrim, Belfast
- Salary
- negotiable
- Posted
- 12 Nov 2020
- Closes
- 10 Dec 2020
- Ref
- 3866429
- Contact
- Patrick McDonald
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- PQE Level
- 2-4
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Your new company
Our client is a leading Top 100 company with offices based in Belfast City. They're recruiting for a Company Lawyer 2Yrs PQE+ to join their team on a 1 YR Fixed Term Contract.
Your new role
- In your new role you will be accountable primarily to the Senior Company Lawyers and the following reflects typical duties but is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties:
- Commercial legal agreements with suppliers and stakeholders, assisting the Senior Company Lawyers concerning matters of employment, fraud, defence of actions and litigation recovery actions.
- Particular responsibility for the provision of legal services for property, assets and estates (including intangible property rights), and services required to support the compliant and cost-effective delivery of the estates function - holding an ongoing objective to reduce external legal service dependency and increase internal knowledge, skill and efficiency (especially when dealing with routine or repeat legal issues).
- From time to time deputise for the Senior Company Lawyers or General Counsel and to engage at a high level on complex, corporate, legal and governance issues for the Board, GCE and the Executive team directly (occasionally at Executive Committee meetings, project meetings or possibly at the Board).
- Manage the external legal panel more generally, and provide administrative support to billing and commissioning of work. Help to ensure the smooth, properly governed commissioning and delivery of legal service and onward communication or interpretation of technical and often sensitive
- advice.
- Draft Group policy documents, advise on company secretariat matters, data protection and information law, familiarity with procurement matters, major development projects, corporate governance, and provide advice on regulatory law and related EU requirements e. public service agreements, the MSFM with government, EU transport packages and their implications for the company and NI industry sector.
- Ensure appropriate consideration is given to the organisations equality duties as well as specific commitments associated with your job role.
What you'll need to succeed
- A qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 2 years' post qualification experience.
- Currently hold or are eligible to apply for and hold a Practising Certificate issued by the Law Society of Northern Ireland
- Comprehensive knowledge and a minimum of 2 years' experience of company and commercial law.
Experience of providing legal advice to a large multi-faceted client or commercial organisation.
Possess experience in two of the following four areas:
- Experience of general commercial agreements;
- Experience of law relevant to business organisations;
- Experience of law relating to commercial property/developments/estates matters (not solely domestic conveyancing);
- Experience of corporate governance matters.
- Experience of advising on transport law.
- Experience of public/constitutional law or European law.
What you'll get in return
An competitive salary, pension and other benefits are on offer for you here.
What you need to do now
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