Legal Counsel

Job description

Legal Counsel

  

Job Description:

   

At HPE, we bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions and advance the way people live and work. Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world.

HPE's Legal division applies legal knowledge to complex business transactions. Our mission is to contribute to HPE's success by providing proactive, practical and timely legal advice and contractual support to enable our clients to achieve profitable growth and customer satisfaction. An integral part of HPE, we work in areas such as Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions, Ethics, Antitrust, Commercial Law, and Litigation to name but a few.

The Legal division is currently looking for a Legal Counsel to act as primary legal support to regional and country management, business units and functions for sales and marketing, distribution, supply chain, and operations.

Responsibilities

·  Provides legal subject matter expertise for commercial, antitrust, employment, real estate, pensions, company secretarial, post-acquisition merger and acquisition (M&A), litigation, and local regulatory compliance matters.
·  Provides first-line support for all US extra-territorial regulatory compliance.
·  Participates in senior regional and country management teams. Provides institutional knowledge, support, and fiduciary oversight in relation to corporate and local governance standards, policies, process, and reporting requirements.
·  Provides legal expertise to support client decisions in a country or sub-region, including performing commercial transactions and program review, drafting, and negotiation.
·  Manages local external legal counsel and associated budgets.
·  Promotes legal awareness and leads legal training activities for clients in a country.
·  Identifies, analyzes and resolves complex local legal issues.
·  Concurrently works on multiple legal issues and projects for various client organizations within a country.

Required Professional Skills

·  Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB).
·  Meets local legal license requirements.
·  Typically 4-6 years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.
·  Well-developed level of business experience supporting clients or advising on legal matters.
·  Well-developed breadth of practical legal and business knowledge, as well as in-depth knowledge in one or more practice areas.
·  Good knowledge of local/regional laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
·  Awareness of international legal environmental law.
·  Well-developed competence and experience in negotiating or advising on legal and business matters, or focused competency in particular practice areas.
·  Able to translate complex legal or factual issues into plain language communications.
·  English language skills to business standard preferred.

We offer:

·  A competitive salary and extensive social benefits
·  Diverse and dynamic work environment
·  Work-life balance and support for career development
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Job:
Legal

Job Level:
Specialist

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to the use of arrest and conviction records, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws and will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.