Assistant General Counsel - Strategic Deals

Job Title: Assistant General Counsel – Strategic Deals

Job location: Various Cities (Hybrid)

Job description:

Capgemini America has an immediate opening in its Strategic Deals Legal Team for an in-house attorney with 7+ years of relevant legal experience. To be successful in this role, you should have experience handling complex IT and technology-related transactions in a leading law firm and in-house legal department. You will be directly involved in the structuring and negotiation of complex transactions and will be expected to work directly with client teams and senior business leaders. The candidate will work primarily in a hybrid model.  Preferred locations for this position include Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, or Dallas areas.

Key Responsibilities: 

•  Structure, draft, negotiate and manage legal aspects of large and strategic transactions.

•  Negotiate and draft services agreements, outsourcing agreements, SLAs, software licenses, alliance agreements, and other commercial agreements.

•  Expertise with complex legal issues involving intellectual property, privacy, cybersecurity and technology.

•  Excellent legal and interpersonal skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks (prioritizing as necessary), have a strong work ethic and have excellent communication and organizational skills

Required Skills: 

• 7+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally with a combination of law firm training and at least one in-house role.

•  Demonstrated experience with contract drafting and legal negotiation of large technology-related transactions. 

•  Strong familiarity with drafting and negotiating complex intellectual property, licensing, warranty, indemnity, and liability clauses.

•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.

•  Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects, and to effectively communicate legal issues and policies to senior management.

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

·    Flexible work

·    Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs

·    Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan

·    Paid time off and paid holidays

·    Paid parental leave

·    Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation

·    Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring

·    Mentoring, coaching and learning programs

·    Employee Resource Groups

·    Disaster Relief

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.

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Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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