Business Lawyer (M/F)

Job Description:

Your Mission

Reporting to the Group CFO, you will join a legal department composed of three employees (two lawyers and a legal assistant/paralegal).

Within this team, you will intervene on all issues regarding corporate law, business law, and Group compliance, both in France and internationally. You will support operational and functional departments in securing the legal aspects of their activities and participate in the Group's development projects.

Your Main Responsibilities

Corporate / Company Law***Ensure the legal monitoring of the day-to-day and exceptional life of the Group's French companies (approval of accounts, governance, appointment of officers, amendments to articles of association, capital operations, mergers, TUP, demergers, transformations, delegations of authority) Coordinate the legal monitoring of international subsidiaries with local correspondents and law firms.

• Ensure the proper application of governance rules within the Group's companies.
• Participate in projects to simplify and optimize the legal organization of the companies (restructurings, rationalization of shareholding, structural evolutions) Support specific operations (company formation, joint-ventures, acquisitions, approvals, restructurings) Supervise, with the paralegal, legal and administrative formalities (registries, publications, powers of attorney as well as the administration of the Group's legal document database.

Contracts and Legal Support***Analyze, draft, negotiate, and secure various types of contracts in France and internationally: real estate contracts, confidentiality agreements, partnership agreements, subcontracting, service agreements, intragroup agreements, general terms and conditions, etc.

• Advise operational departments on legal issues relating to business law.
• Perform legal monitoring and draft analysis notes on legislative and regulatory developments of interest to the Group.

Compliance***Participate in the deployment and monitoring of the Group's compliance programs, particularly regarding anti-corruption (Sapin II), international sanctions, and KYC/UBO mechanisms.

• Contribute to the updating of internal procedures and support teams in their implementation.
• Ensure regulatory monitoring and participate in awareness-raising actions on compliance topics.

Profile Description Higher education such as a Master II in business law, corporate law, DJCE or equivalent training (LLM, IEP, business school with a legal specialization) Confirmed experience of at least 6 to 8 years acquired within a corporate legal department or a business law firm.

• Excellent mastery of corporate law and corporate operations.
• Good practice of contract law.
• Knowledge of main compliance topics (Sapin II, international sanctions, KYC) Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Mastery of Office 365 tools, legal management solutions (such as Invoke Partner), as well as DocuSign constitutes an asset.