In-House Counsel

Legal

• Serving as a legal advisor on all matters facing the E&A business, including coordinating with other in-house and external counsel, to offer pragmatic legal and business advice to leadership and corporate functions.
• Providing legal advice to the business and contracts professionals on work with the European Union/Commission and the variety of Directorates-General (DGs) particularly including advising on EC procurement matters, challenges to EC procurement decisions, client and subcontractor disputes, meeting EU regulatory requirements, conflicts of interest, hiring of former government employees, and helping to defend the company's business, legal, and contractual interests.
• Familiarity with managing cross-border legal matters and providing legal and corporate governance support to remote offices: Exploring legal entity registrations in new jurisdictions; evaluating legal and employment implications of short-term projects in foreign jurisdictions; providing general support on local governance matters; issue-spotting cross-border compliance matters (anti-corruption, sanctions, trade, tax, etc); and obtaining local counsel advice.
• Supporting with any litigation, legal demand letters, legal disputes, or similar that may arise within the business, and utilising the assistance of external litigation counsel and OGC leadership as appropriate.
• Providing high-level employment law advice or comfortable in coordinating employment-related legal matters with strong internal Human Resources team and external employment counsel, as appropriate
• Where needed, supporting the strong Contracts, Subcontracts, Procurement, Facilities, Human Resources, and other corporate teams in their review of a wide-range of business agreements, lease agreements, consortium agreements, non-disclosure agreements, employment-related agreements, subcontract documents, and client contracts with commercial, government, and inter-government clients.
• Supporting corporate transactional matters, including M&A due diligence and integration activities and coordinating corporate governance matters.
• Staying current on assigned regulatory and legal issues affecting the company.

Compliance

• General support to the overall execution of the Ethics and Compliance program, particularly in relation to UK and EU government compliance (strong familiarity with UKBA), and applicable inter-governmental compliance requirements (ie EC).
• Where appropriate, assisting HR and Compliance teams on internal reviews of employee misconduct.
• Working with leadership to develop legal policies and procedures.
• Providing targeted live training on key legal, regulatory, and compliance topics.