Legal Specialist
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in company secretarial roles, including managing international corporate maintenance matters, at a law firm or in-house legal department.
Preferred qualifications:
- Associate Member/Graduate of The Chartered Governance Institute or equivalent.
- Ability to work on a broad variety of legal and non-legal matters.
- Excellent analytical skills, with a strong ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters.
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills, attention to detail, and ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple projects/requests that are time sensitive.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
About the job
In this role, you will execute complete tasks and provide support to the Legal Department on various legal and administrative matters within the scope of a larger project. You'll act as a point person for internal or external clients, prepare preliminary drafts of legal documents, create process documentation, and lead training sessions. You'll own well-defined projects and handle legal and business/non-legal matters of low to moderate risk of complexity with some guidance including managing information and documentation, conducting legal reviews, advising clients on risks and solutions, and improving processes. You will interact with multiple groups within the Legal Department, with internal stakeholders across Google, and with external parties and articulate legal and operational needs with parties who may have competing priorities.
Responsibilities
- Handle corporate expansions, liquidations, integrations, and coordination of corporate compliance, governance, and maintenance for Alphabet subsidiaries in EMEA.
- Plan and coordinate board/shareholder meetings in accordance with local statutory and regulatory requirements, including attending meetings, preparing board/shareholder documents, taking minutes, maintaining corporate records and internal databases. Monitor and handle required corporate and regulatory filings.
- Act as the point person for internal/external clients, prepare preliminary drafts of legal documents and process documentation, and lead training sessions.
- Ensure compliance to processes and procedures, provide guidance to ensure conformity and consistency in the application of Alphabet’s policies/practices. Perform corporate housekeeping tasks, including tracking of documents, routing documents for signature and distribution, filing, data organization, and handling logistical matters such as corporate chopping, certification, notarization and the likes.
- Contribute to other special projects as requested.
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