Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nexcess provides specialty cloud solutions for organizations where performance and compliance have to coexist. They are seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and cross-functional teams, managing legal, commercial, and compliance risks with a focus on contract negotiation and corporate governance.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of complex agreements, including but not limited to terms and conditions, consulting agreements, marketing, lease, intra-group contracts, employment agreements, vendor contracts, and customer agreements to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards and own the full contract lifecycle: drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, and archiving
- Maintain and evolve contract templates and playbooks for key commercial and corporate agreements
- Advise on employment law matters, including hiring, terminations, and restructurings
- Identify legal risks across data privacy, security, employment, anti-bribery, and artificial intelligence and provide practical legal advice to business partners on risk mitigation and regulatory compliance
- Support litigation, dispute resolution, corporate due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions in partnership with internal and external counsel
- Handle corporate governance matters of the entities in our group worldwide, including coordination of corporate approvals, documentation, and record-keeping and manage statutory, regulatory, and internal compliance matters for the group entities, including timely filings, corporate records, and ongoing alignment with applicable legal and governance requirements, often in collaboration with external corporate service providers, agent and external counsel as applicable
- Create, implement, and maintain internal corporate policies regarding data retention, surveillance, employment, AI and privacy to optimize business outcomes while managing risk
- Keep up with developments in applicable laws which may require amendments to existing policies and/or creating new policies to ensure compliance
- Create, implement, and maintain internal corporate policies regarding a variety of topics
- Partner with senior leaders on key initiatives and compliance, advising on legal and regulatory matters and providing practical solutions
- Coordinate and oversee external legal counsel when required
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Law (LL.B., LL.M., or equivalent)
- Minimum 5-7 years of post-qualification legal experience with strong expertise in corporate and commercial law, with proven experience drafting and reviewing contracts and solid knowledge of corporate governance, compliance, and employment law matters. Main experience with US/UK and other EU legal frameworks
- Proven mastery of corporate law and regulatory compliance
- Demonstrated contract negotiation abilities across a variety of agreement types
- Strong analytical skills, detailed-minded and ability to work independently
- Strong attention to detail, ownership, accountability, flexibility and adaptability
- Strong expertise in GDPR and other EU related privacy laws and regulations
- Strong business acumen, critical thinking, and the ability to solve complex problems creatively
- Collaborative spirit and the agility to thrive in a fast-changing corporate landscape
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; comfortable operating in a multi-national, cross-border environment
- Industry experience in hosting, cloud infrastructure, or technology companies
- Multi-jurisdictional exposure and hands-on experience supporting companies across multiple jurisdictions worldwide would be an advantage
- Prior in-house legal experience an advantage
- Knowledge of DORA obligations and the AI Act and experience in litigation support and dispute resolution
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