- Legal Counsel - must have French Bar
- Must live in the Paris area
- Must be native French
Legal Counsel,
Paris,
France
Please ensure your CV clearly shows that you have the French Bar. This is a mandatory requirement for this position.
Job Type:
On-site
Job Description:
We're looking for a talented and highly motivated legal counsel to support our client's rapidly growing and evolving business in France. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with broad, generalist responsibilities, but with
specific legal expertise in commercial law and regulatory/compliance matters pertaining the consumer electronics sector (smartphone, PC, and wearables distribution and E-commerce, digital services).
Main Responsibilities
- Support business operations in France, by giving pro-active, professional, competent, cost-effective, and creative legal support:
- Review and negotiate contracts in procurement, sales, administration, and other business-related areas.
- Review compliance of business projects, promotions & campaigns, features and functions of products.
- Handle external disputes.
- Provide advice on legal risks, business strategies, compliance, and regulatory issues.
- Provided legal support to HONOR France R&D center, including but not limited to support technical cooperation projects.
- Reports to Regional Legal Head of European Region, dotted line to Country CEO of France.
- Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with external legal resources.
- Legislative tracking and employee legal awareness training.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Native French candidates are needed and MUST have French BAR.
- LL.B. or LL.M. degree, PLUS French BAR.
- 3+ years of experience in a multinational company or law firm. Familiar with handling company legal affairs and procedures.
- Be familiar with competition law, data protection law, consumer right protection law, corporate law, and labour law.
- Great judgment, very strong written and verbal communication skills, and great attention to detail.
- Results and customer oriented and continuous improvement mindset
- Practical business judgment and ability to qualify actual practical risk. Occasional travel to consult with internal or external customers.
- Native French and fluent English