Corporate Legal Counsel
Location: Dublin
Contract: Permanent
TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide.
Responsibilities
Identify requirements, prepare and negotiate contracts, perform legal due diligence and research, advise management, and ensure ongoing compliance with the company's responsibilities for monitoring, reporting and meeting contractual, statutory and legal obligations in customer engagements.
Provide legal counsel, coordinate and manage other legal activities relating to a variety of business corporate or risk management functions/issues as they arise.
Review, negotiate, and/or draft business agreements/contracts relating to a wide variety of general business and/or regulatory issues to the best advantage of the company.
Identify and mitigate risks associated with various business practices and operations.
Review statutes, regulations and company contracts and provide advice on resolving legal, business and/or regulatory issues.
Supervise, coordinate or direct projects and/or legal staff as assigned.
Provide legal review, analysis, and advice to business partners/functional areas as assigned, as well as provide legal review, analysis, and counsel relating to contract negotiation and draft related agreements.
Provide assistance to and manage the work activities of other legal staff, as may be assigned.
Provide regular written reports and ad‑hoc verbal reporting to Head of Legal in relation to own responsibilities.
Qualifications
Requires a LLB/LLM/J.D (or equivalent) from an accredited law school and current practicing certificate or equivalent.
Requires extensive professional experience – ideally at least 5 years in outsourcing/IT contracts/license matters providing legal counsel on business issues and contractual issues in the legal field, demonstrating good negotiating and drafting skills.
Requires strong analytical ability and knowledge of the relevant governing laws.
Requires good team spirit and the ability to motivate and supervise assigned personnel.
Requires excellent oral and written communication ability to effectively communicate with all levels of personnel within the company, vendors and clients, and an understanding of working across cultures.
Requires project management and time‑management skills and the ability to effectively prioritise work activities to accomplish assigned duties under deadline pressure.
Requires strong interpersonal ability to effectively work with internal business clients, vendors and external clients.
Requires word‑processing skills and the ability to perform in a self‑sufficient manner with minimal secretarial and administrative support.
Benefits
TCS offers competitive salary packages featuring pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We also provide health & wellness initiatives and sports events, and are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability‑inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long‑term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: "Adjustment Request" or to Rebecca.mcclelland@tcs.com to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
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