Group Legal Counsel

🕒 September 9

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Modaxo

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1001 - 5000 employees

🚗 Transport

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Transport • SaaS • B2B

Modaxo is a global acquirer and operator of vertical-market software companies that power people transportation. The company provides a permanent, long-term home for transport-focused software businesses, offering financial backing, collaborative autonomy, and a people-first culture while keeping brands and teams independent. Modaxo’s portfolio covers software for buses, rail, demand response, taxis, private cars and aviation, and it focuses on scaling solutions that improve planning, payments, safety, and operational efficiency across public and commercial transport.

📋 Description

• Serve as Aczel Group’s lead legal advisor and strategic business partner • Work with the Group Leader, Group Team, and BU General Managers on commercial, contractual, legal, strategy, and risk matters • Participate in group- and BU-level strategy reviews, deal reviews, and key initiatives • Provide legal, contracts, and general risk assessments to business leaders and BU legal teams • Lead a team of lawyers and contract managers across six business units • Ensure the quality, consistency, and efficiency of group-wide legal support • Drive shared tools, processes, best-practice adoption, and automated legal processes across business units • Drive adoption and improvement of HighQ and mandatory AI tools across the legal function • Enforce and update policies, governance documents, and procedures • Develop legal talent through performance management, career frameworks, individualized development plans, succession planning, coaching, and mentoring • Partner on talent reviews, compensation benchmarking, and recruiting for legal and contract management roles • Manage group compliance and quarterly reporting obligations • Provide ongoing legal support for contracts, litigation, high-risk matters, and multi-BU matters • Coordinate contract-manager work and provide fill-in and overflow legal support across business units • Support M&A diligence, purchase agreement negotiation, integration, and legal resourcing • Work with Modaxo’s General Counsel on global M&A and initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading legal functions across multiple business units • Experience advising senior business leaders on legal, commercial, contractual, and risk matters • Experience with commercial contracts, litigation, compliance, governance, employment law, and intellectual property matters • Experience managing lawyers and contract managers • Experience developing legal talent, career frameworks, succession plans, and performance management processes • Experience implementing legal tools, automated processes, and contract workflows • Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, including diligence, purchase agreement negotiation, and integration • Ability to establish and manage external specialized legal support • Ability to manage compliance and quarterly reporting obligations • Ability to lead legal risk review and escalation • Experience with HighQ and mandatory AI tools adoption is required or expected within the legal function