Legal Counsel

2 months ago

Bengaluru, India IBM Full time

**Introduction**
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**

**Purpose of the Job**

**Responsibilities**:

- Preparing, reviewing, negotiating, and advising on all aspects of M&A transactions and their terms. This includes assisting relevant business lines with performing due diligence, drafting, preparation and responses to transaction terms, coordinating the closing across multiple jurisdictions, and integrating the resulting business.
- Providing advice on a broad range of corporate, commercial, regulatory, compliance, data privacy, employment, litigation, and other legal issues of relevance to IBM.
- Working with various business lines and functions, including IBM’s regional legal, finance, human resources, regulatory and risk management teams, to provide solutions consistent with IBM’s corporate policies.
- Ensuring documentation is maintained, and organizational memory is retained within the corporate business group.
- Providing education on various matters.
- Handing claims by and against the company and assisting with the preparation for litigation or arbitration proceedings, including the coordination of efforts by corporate staff and outside counsel. Develop ongoing and future strategies to avoid potentially damaging legal situations regarding M&A activities, which often involves working closely with internal management teams and IBM counsels representing other countries to ensure appropriate implementation.

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Absolute commitment to business integrity and ethical conduct.
- A degree in law and legal qualification in India.
- Around 10 years of legal experience, preferably in a top-tier or leading international firm or with solid in-house counsel experience with a multi-national corporation or a combination with a strong understanding of corporate transactions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making.
- Demonstrated success in negotiating large and complex M&A transactions.
- Ability to handle multiple matters concurrently.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills.
- Ability to give advice with an eye as to the commercials of a matter.
- Able to work in an agile, dynamic, and fast-paced environment and to meet critical deadlines.
- Able to work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Able to communicate well and work in a cross-functional team to achieve common goals.
- Able to identify and escalate issues timely and appropriately.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Independent and self-motivated.

**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Previous exposure in IT-related industry is an advantage.

**About Business Unit**

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

**About IBM**

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At IBM, we pride ourselve

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