Senior Counsel

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 1. Commercial Legal Advisor for Certain Industrial Business Units: - Serve as initial US legal commercial counsel for assigned industrial business units. - Develop a deep understanding of business strategy, commercial objectives, products, customers, and operating risks. - Provide proactive, practical, and business-focused legal advice to business leaders. - Participate in business planning initiatives and strategic projects, as applicable. - Identify legal risks and develop solutions that enable business growth while protecting company interests. 2. Commercial Contracting and Strategic Business Support: - Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements. - Develop contracting strategies that balance business objectives and legal risk. - Advise management regarding contractual disputes and pre-litigation claims. - Drive continuous improvement of contracting processes, playbooks, templates, legal technologies, and other legal operations initiatives to enhance efficiency and business responsiveness. 3. Risk Management, Compliance, and Governance: - Identify emerging legal, regulatory, and operational risks affecting supported businesses. - Provide guidance regarding antitrust laws affecting commercial operations and acquisition activities. - Assist with development and implementation of antitrust compliance programs and training initiatives. - Conduct legal research and develop practical solutions to manage legal and business issues. 4. Corporate Transactions, and Mergers & Acquisitions: - As assigned, support Corporate Strategy and Development on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, and other strategic transactions. - Draft, negotiate, and review confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, transition services agreements, and related transaction documents. - Manage and coordinate legal due diligence activities. - Support business leaders, finance, tax, environmental, employment, compliance, intellectual property, treasury, and other subject matter experts throughout transactions. - Assist with transaction structuring, signing, closing, integration planning, and post-closing matters. - Assist support on merger control and antitrust regulatory review processes, including Hart-Scott-Rodino filings, foreign competition law filings, agency inquiries, second requests and responses to regulatory authorities. - Manage external legal transaction counsel, as applicable. 5. Strategic Business Partnership: - Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership teams of assigned business units. - Provide timely legal guidance regarding corporate planning, strategic initiatives and operational decisions. - Communicate complex legal concepts in a practical and understandable manner. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business objectives and promote efficient decision making. - Develop an in-depth understanding of supported businesses' markets, competitive dynamics, products, sales channels, customers and strategic objectives. 6. Leadership and Professional Excellence: Manage outside counsel in an effective and cost-conscious manner. Lead or support legal department operational excellence projects. Mentor junior attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, and legal staff as appropriate. Promote a culture of integrity, compliance, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Stay abreast of relevant legal developments. Drive continuous improvement in contract lifecycle management, legal technology utilization,