Senior Counsel, Transactions & Market Compliance

🕒 September 3

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage legal workstreams for domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, collaborations, and joint ventures from strategy and diligence through negotiation, signing, closing, and post-closing integration • Draft, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements and transaction documents, including purchase, joint venture, shareholder, supply, service, manufacturing, technology, strategic collaboration, and licensing agreements • Lead complex commercial transactions involving Ford’s global supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing teams • Participate in senior-level planning and strategy development and negotiate directly with counterparties and joint venture partners worldwide • Balance legal risks with business goals through creative, compliant, risk-calibrated solutions • Counsel senior management and business unit leadership on transaction risk, deal alternatives, governance, and execution strategy; prepare and present recommendations to executive leadership • Champion responsible uses of artificial intelligence, automation, and legal technology while maintaining legal judgment, confidentiality, privilege, compliance, and human oversight • Lead, manage, mentor, evaluate, and develop attorneys, paralegals, and other legal professionals • Coordinate cross-functional legal teams worldwide • Oversee outside counsel, including scope, staffing, budgets, work-product quality, and cost management • Develop and improve templates, playbooks, and precedent libraries • Support enterprise initiatives in electrification, software and connectivity, energy, autonomy, and government or defense-related programs

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school • Active member in good standing of at least one U.S. State Bar, with the ability to register as in-house counsel if relocating • Minimum of 15 years of demonstrated and deep leadership experience negotiating and drafting significant complex commercial agreements and U.S. and global mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and collaborations • Substantial experience leading complex commercial transactions relating to a global supply chain for manufacturing • Demonstrated experience negotiating and closing transactions with counterparties located outside the United States • Demonstrated experience advising senior company management on significant legal and business matters • Demonstrated experience leading, managing, mentoring, and developing a team of attorneys and legal professionals • Exceptional drafting, negotiation, and business judgment • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable, business-friendly advice • Strong interpersonal skills and professional maturity to advise, influence, and build trust with senior executives and stakeholders • Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as business necessities require • Experience providing legal support within the automotive or energy sectors (may also have) • Combination of major law firm training and subsequent in-house corporate legal experience (may also have)