Job Description:

Airbus SAS is looking for Senior Corporate Legal Counsel (f/m) to join our Legal & Compliance department based in Toulouse, France.

You will be part of a multicultural team of around 20 people under the leadership of the Head of Governance Matters and Corporate Law. As part of the Corporate Law team you will work closely with various departments within the company, to provide strategic legal advice and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. 

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• ​Work / Life Balance:  Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.

• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.

• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects  with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly.    Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• Legal Advisory: Provide expert legal advice to the company's executive team and various departments on a wide range of legal issues, including corporate law, restructurings, corporate governance and as the case may be mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations and regulatory compliance.

• Conducting legal research and analysis on complex corporate matters.

• Preparing and reviewing corporate documents, such as board and shareholders’ resolutions, shareholder agreements and proxy statements.

• Restructurings: Provide legal support for intra-group mergers, carve out transactions, contributions of shares or assets, transfer of activities, incorporations, liquidations, including due diligence, structuring, legal documentation drafting, formalities.

• Intra-group agreements: Draft, review and negotiate intra-group agreements.

• Corporate Governance: Advise on corporate governance issues, ensuring that the company adheres to relevant laws, regulations, and best practices.

• Regulatory Compliance: Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, in coordination with any other relevant legal teams.

• Risk Management: Identify potential legal risks and support the development of strategies to mitigate these risks.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Work with external stakeholders, including regulators, auditors, and external legal counsels, credit servicers to ensure the company's interests are represented and protected; collaboration with legal teams within the company to align the company's legal strategy with broader corporate objectives and ensure consistency in legal practices across the organisation.

• Policy Development: Assist in the development and implementation of company policies, directives and procedures, particularly those related to legal and regulatory compliance.

Your boarding pass:

• Qualified French Solicitor (holds the CAPA)

• At least 12 years of relevant post-qualification experience in French corporate law / M&A and restructurings in a law firm and/or in-house counsel role in a large company with a proven track record in complex transactions and strategic projects

• Experience with cross-border transactions

• Excellent negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, ability to provide clear and commercially oriented legal advice

• Strong ability to structure, prioritise, analyse and deliver efficient legal solutions i