Would you like to join our legal team? Reporting directly to our General Counsel, you would be responsible in this new role to provide support to Le Wagon’s teams in all legal matters.

Your main missions more specifically:

Corporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions

• Assist the CG in M&A projects (external growth projects and corporate restructuring: draft and review of transactional documentation)
• Liaise with external advisors on said projects
• Oversee governance matters and corporate record keeping
• Prepare documentation for Board approval
• Coordination with the Finance Department and lawyers for the preparation of the General Meeting Minutes of the holding and of the subsidiaries

Business Law / Commercial law (B2B/B2C)

• Supporting all commercial, operational and sales teams in contract review and negotiation / clarifying contractual aspects, including strategic partnerships, in multiple jurisdictions,
• Drafting, negotiating if necessary, and/or updating the various contractual intercompany agreements;
• Ensure the proper implementation of these contracts in collaboration with the key people of the various entities, including international subsidiaries,
• Assist in implementing standard processes and templates (letters, contracts, best practices, etc.).

Additional missions:

• Monitor the protection of the Le Wagon brand (IP law)
• Monitor RGPD compliance with the IP counsel
• Delivering legal trainings to the business

🌤️ What you can expect:

• Work in a fast-growing environment in a culture of continuous learning ;
• Work on various, stimulating and challenging topics;
• Work as involved in the business as possible as it gets for a legal team ;
• Work in a supportive team ensuring you understand how and why you are doing something ;
• Work in an international company, with teams in around 20 countries.

🤓Technical Skills

• You have at least 4/5 years of experience, either in a law firm or in a company (ideally a fast-growing one) as a foundation for transformation at Le Wagon into a high performing in-house counsel;
• You have proven competence in international Merger & Acquisition, Commercial and Corporate Law (knowledge in IP law is a real plus);
• Experience of operating in a multi-jurisdictional environment;
• You can communicate effectively (written and oral) in English and/or French, with a strong working knowledge of the other language (knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a plus).

🥎Soft Skills

• Driven/highly motivated, autonomous with enthusiasm for new areas of expertise, needs agility to work outside own comfort zone and pick up, analyse and become comfortable on new topics quickly on a regular basis;
• Gravitas to work and evolve in close collaboration with senior management on evolving strategic and sensitive international issues in a time-critical environment;
• Business-driven and pragmatic;
• Team player with ability to influence and federate across departments/the group;
• Communication skills and ability to challenge and be challenged;
• Integrity – trustworthiness is key due to dealing with confidential information on a regular basis;
• Tech savvy.