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About the Role
Smiths Detection is seeking an experienced Senior Corporate Counsel to join their Legal team. This role will support strategic growth initiatives, lead legal support for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and provide oversight of legal entity governance and ethics investigations.
Responsibilities
- Act as the lead legal adviser on acquisition, divestiture and strategic partnership opportunities.
- Manage the legal aspects of transactions from initial engagement through to completion and post-acquisition integration.
- Coordinate and oversee external legal advisers and specialist providers.
- Review, assess and advise on legal due diligence findings and transaction risks.
- Draft, review and negotiate transaction documentation, confidentiality agreements and strategic partnership arrangements.
- Work closely with Finance, Corporate Development and business stakeholders throughout the deal lifecycle.
- Oversee legal entity management activities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Coordinate annual compliance requirements, board and director changes, and corporate restructuring initiatives.
- Manage external providers supporting company secretarial and governance activities.
- Act as a key point of contact for ethics-related matters.
- Support the management and coordination of internal investigations.
- Ensure appropriate case documentation, reporting and governance processes are maintained.
- Assist with ethics and compliance awareness initiatives and training activities.
Requirements
- Qualified Solicitor with a law degree.
- Significant post-qualification legal experience gained within an in-house legal team and/or a leading law firm.
- Strong M&A and corporate transactional experience, including due diligence, negotiations and deal execution.
- Experience managing external counsel and coordinating complex legal workstreams.
- Ability to identify and communicate legal and commercial risks to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Previous in-house experience supporting acquisitions and strategic investments.
- Exposure to international or cross-border transactions.
- Experience working within industrial, manufacturing, engineering, technology or other global corporate environments.
- Experience supporting legal entity governance and corporate compliance activities.
- Familiarity with ethics, investigations or compliance processes.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate transactional
- Due diligence
- Negotiations
- Deal execution
- External counsel management
- Legal risk assessment
- Commercial risk assessment
- Drafting
- Stakeholder management
- Legal entity governance
- Corporate compliance
- Ethics
- Investigations
- Compliance processes
Location
- Chancery Lane, London
Work Type
- Temporary
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Law degree
- Qualified Solicitor
Benefits
- Excellent training
- Opportunities for career growth
- Inclusive environment
- Strong leadership
- Focus on safety and wellbeing
- Flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits
- Health and wellbeing support
- Financial support
- Lifestyle support
About the Company
- Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place.
- Smiths Detection, a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place.
- Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.
- Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.
- This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics.
- We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.