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Junior Legal Counsel

Type Contract

Salary Negotiable

Location Cork (All)

Ref # 7988

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Barden has been engaged by a leading Irish business who is seeking a solicitor to join its legal team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a solicitor who is looking to develop their career in a progressive in-house legal team.

This business is Cork based but this role can be worked on a hybrid basis of 1 day onsite per week during the initial period and largely remote thereafter.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The position will be offered as a 2 year contract for a new project that has come up in the business. The role will work predominantly within the project group, with the support of the head of legal and wider legal team but working very autonomously.

Responsibilities of the role will include:

  • Providing advice to the business across a range of legal issues (to include commercial, property, employment and competition issues).
  • Managing effective Due Diligence processes.
  • Preparing and negotiating transaction-related agreements such as confidentiality agreements, heads of terms, etc. as well as reviewing and negotiating transactional documents developed by external lawyers.
  • Advising and providing guidance to the business on all required transactional documents. 
  • Effective project management of case load. 
  • Attending to all governance related issues to allow transactions to move to completion.
  • Maintaining up-to-date records and filing of executed documents.
  • Managing external legal advisors and legal budgets.
  • Maintenance of legal trackers and reporting on same to relevant internal stakeholders

*Full job description available.

ABOUT THE PERSON

  • You will be a qualified solicitor with a minimum of 2 years’ PQE in corporate, commercial, banking or commercial property;
  • You will have excellent commercial acumen and be comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.

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Hi, we’re Barden.  We’re the Partner Led Talent Advisory & Recruitment Firm that puts Talent first. With practices across Accounting & Tax, Business Support, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Legal, Supply Chain, and Technology, we help build world-class teams for Ireland’s top companies and we help top Talent achieve their ambitions.Simple.

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