Senior Counsel

Overview

We are hiring a Senior Counsel to provide strategic legal counsel for FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation (HLUS) and its global chemicals and semiconductor materials businesses. The Senior Counsel, reporting to the Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, will be an experienced transactional lawyer, responsible for handling all legal affairs, including corporate governance, for FUJIFILM chemicals subsidiaries, and supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, and other general corporate matters.

The right candidate will be excited to join a growing company with a diverse portfolio of technology and manufacturing businesses. This attorney will work both independently and collaboratively and be a reliable legal resource and valued business partner for HLUS and its subsidiaries. Please include a cover letter and resume indicating your interest and expertise in this position. Applicants under serious consideration will be asked to submit a list of three supervisor references.

HLUS is the holding company for North American-based FUJIFILM companies operating in many states across the US, as well as in Canada, Brazil, and Colombia and engaged in the research, development, manufacture, sale, and servicing of FUJIFILM products. HLUS serves a broad spectrum of industries in the U.S. including chemicals, electronics, graphic arts, photography, medical and life sciences, information systems, and broadcast.

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Responsibilities

• Advise on day-to-day legal affairs, various domestic and cross-border transactions, contracts, and corporate matters of certain FUJIFILM chemicals subsidiaries, ensuring operational and regulatory compliance.   
• Draft, review, and negotiate a large volume of strategic and complex commercial and manufacturing contracts for chemicals subsidiaries, ensuring alignment with internal corporate policies and applicable laws.  These include domestic and international supply and distribution agreements, intra-company agreements, toll/contracted manufacturing agreements, quality agreements, partnership, joint venture agreements, joint development agreements, technology licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, facilities services agreements, logistics services agreements, real estate agreements, non-disclosure agreements, purchase orders, among others.
• Develop and update standard form agreements and templates of certain FUJIFILM chemicals subsidiaries, ensuring alignment with internal corporate policies and applicable laws.
• Advise and support FUJIFILM and its subsidiaries on general corporate matters, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, and other strategic corporate transactions and reorganizations.
• Prepare and maintain accurate and complete corporate records for domestic and international legal entities in compliance with applicable corporate governance requirements.
• Support pre-litigation, litigation, dispute resolution, and settlement matters, and handle other specialized matters with the assistance of external counsel resources, minimizing risks while maximizing FUJIFILM’s legal positions.
• Provide actionable and sound legal advice, prepare reports, and make recommendations to management on a variety of legal issues.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory changes that may affect HLUS and its affiliates.
• Provide training to HLUS and its affiliates on substantive legal topics, including contracts, antitrust, and other regulations specific to chemicals manufacturing companies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Education

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in corporate law firms and/or in-house legal department, preferably with a multinational company.  
• Legal experience or demonstrated interest in the chemicals or semiconductor materials manufacturing industry.
• Proven track record of handling domestic and cross-border commercial contracts, general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and corporate reorganizations transactions.
• Experience managing outside counsel and/or legal staff.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, including business communications with senior leadership, and ability to solve and explain legal issues.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively and timely complete multiple, concurrent projects with accuracy.
• Ability to collaborate with multicultural teams and companies operating across different time zones; some travel may be requested.
• Strong planning and prioritizing, organization, communication, multitasking, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Adept at collaborating across business divisions, functions, and geographies, wit