Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mace is a company dedicated to redefining the boundaries of ambition, creating transformative impacts globally. The role of Americas Lead Lawyer involves providing legal support across the Americas hub, focusing on contract negotiation, risk assessment, and embedding governance programs within the business.
Responsibilities
- Review of appointment contracts received with client tenders to identify risks to Mace
- Negotiation and drafting of appointment contracts and joint venture agreements, drafting supply chain step-down contracts
- Close liaison with commercial teams to manage the process of contract review through to signing of contracts and ad hoc advice through the life of the project
- Contribute to legal department training sessions for commercial colleagues
- Updating precedent documents
- Assisting commercial colleagues in managing and mitigating potential dispute situations, raising and managing insurance notifications
- Work with Mace’s insurance brokers and occasionally with external counsel
Skills
- Mid-level construction or general commercial lawyer, qualified in any jurisdiction relevant to the role
- 3-7 years' relevant experience in a legal role
- Legal qualification in-house or in a private practice construction team or other relevant discipline
- Risk reviews, negotiation and drafting of bespoke forms of consultancy appointment and all ancillary documentation such as LOAs, NDAs, PCGs, performance bonds, sub-consultant contracts, and collateral warranties
- Understanding of insurance, public procurement law, and dispute avoidance
- Fluent business and legal English (spoken and written)
- Experience of dealing with performance-based contracts, joint venture agreements, joint ventures and teaming arrangements
- International legal or commercial experience
- Experience with commercial digital contracts and data governance matters
- Understanding of regulatory compliance issues including anti-bribery, data privacy, modern slavery, etc
- Familiarity with industry standard forms of contract eg FIDIC, NEC
- Business and legal Spanish (spoken and written)
Benefits
- We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.
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