Legal Counsel, Commercial Transactions

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

 

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.  

Legal Counsel, Commercial Transactions

Job Summary

We are more than legal professionals protecting Equinix’s interests. We are valued business partners, known as responsive, consistent and proactive. We take customer service seriously and strive for excellence in our execution. Equinix’s dynamic growth trajectory keeps us on our toes and constantly learning. Our strong relationships with our internal clients, fueled by our solution-driven orientation and creative yet practical advice, bring us to the table early and often and lead to interesting and rewarding work directly in support of Equinix’s overall business objectives.

Our global Legal department may span four continents, but we are One Legal - a true team working together across borders in support of our shared strategic objectives.  We work hard but take time to celebrate our accomplishments – both professional and personal, with a healthy dose of fun thrown in along the way. We look forward to coming to work every day to support Equinix and each other and highly value the “team first” culture we have created. We are proud that our collective effort has led to Equinix One Legal being named as one of the Top Innovative Law Departments in North America by the Financial Times (FT, December 2015).

This position of Legal Counsel, Commercial Transactions in EMEA Legal team will be responsible for supporting Commercial Transactions in EMEA with a primary focus on France and Germany in connection with the  preparation and negotiation of customer contracts for data centre services, advising on associated contractual issues affecting customers and providing general support for customer contracting. The successful candidate will work closely with and have a reporting line to the Legal Director EMEA Commercial Transaction who is based in Amsterdam. 

Proactiveness, exceptional attention to detail, discretion, problem-solving skills and ability to manage competing priorities on daily basis are strongly desired.

Principal Job Responsibilities

The role is to provide senior leadership of the EMEA Legal team in a full range of tasks, including the following:

• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates complex customer contracts to promote Equinix’s commercial interests whilst ensuring contracts properly balance risk
• Oversees development of and approvals for potential solutions to customer requests, working with and coordinating activities between various departments (e.g., sales, deal management, finance, tax, and insurance), to ensure deals generate the optimal outcome for all Equinix stakeholders
• Analyzes customer requests for information (e.g., RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs), advises commercial leaders on how best to respond, and drafts responses to ensure quick, accurate, and comprehensive follow up
• Partners with the Sales and Commercial managers to develop strategies for customer requirements based upon in-depth business and risk analysis
• Supports the Global Sales team in closing regional or global tasks quickly and working with regional counsel
• Advises on and assists customer related disputes and claims
• Advises on and assists in insurance claims related to customer contracts
• Conducts due diligence related to customer agreements in M&A transactions as assigned by deal team
• Provides legal advice related to customer contracts
• Identifies when customer contracts, negotiations, and interactions do not comply with Equinix policies, processes, and procedures and escalates to appropriate party so they may address non-compliance
• Prioritizes work, based on deal size and complexity, to generate the most sales and profit for the company
• Responds to inquiries regarding contract obligations to provide contractual language
• Responsible for any other customer contract related issues as may arise or be assigned by the Legal Director, EMEA Commercial Transactions(or, Vice President, Legal)
• Completes custom