Industry - IT-Software / Software Services
Category - Legal
Job Type - Permanent
Description:
- The general counsel is responsible for leading corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives.
- The general counsel provides senior management with effective advice on company strategies and their implementation, manages the legal function, and obtains and oversees the work of counsel. The general counsel is directly involved in complex business transactions in negotiating critical contracts.
- Serves as key lawyer/legal advisor on all major business transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.
- Judges the merits of major court cases filed against or on behalf of the company, works with the appropriate executive(s) to define a strategic defense and approves settlements
- Structures and manages the company's internal legal function and staff.
- Oversees the selection, retention, management and evaluation of all outside counsel.
- Advises on legal aspects of the company's financing, including assessing and advising on current and future business structures and legal entities.
- Preferred academics from Tier I colleges
- Experience working on matters of corporate governance and with a board of directors.
- Experience managing other attorneys and supervising support staff in a corporation; experience with cost-effective management of outside legal resources.
- Experience in directing strategy and managing complex cases
- Broad, overview experience in intellectual property law, including patent law, licensing of IP rights and IP due diligence.
- Exposure to or familiarity with the following areas of law: securities, antitrust, computer law and privacy.
- Create vendor contracts and contractor agreements
- Ensure that the company is in compliance with all current business process laws
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