Lead Counsel, Transactions – Market Compliance

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Ford Motor Company

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Support and, where appropriate, lead legal workstreams on domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, collaborations, and joint ventures from diligence and negotiation through signing, closing, and post-closing integration • Draft, review, and negotiate transaction agreements and related documents • Provide legal support for Ford’s global supply chain, including initial sourcing, supplier disputes, template and process improvements, and financially distressed supplier matters • Negotiate directly with counterparties, suppliers, and joint venture partners in the United States and internationally • Help business teams balance legal risk with commercial objectives by identifying practical, compliant, and risk-calibrated paths to execution • Advise business clients and support senior attorneys in counseling management on transaction risk, deal alternatives, governance considerations, and execution strategy • Prepare clear recommendations and leadership briefing materials • Identify responsible opportunities to use artificial intelligence, automation, and legal technology while preserving confidentiality, privilege, compliance, and human oversight • Collaborate with legal colleagues, paralegals, and other professionals to deliver coordinated legal support • Coordinate with cross-functional legal teams around the world on transaction, regulatory, compliance, and governance matters • Help manage outside counsel workstreams, including scope, staffing, budgets, timelines, and work product quality • Contribute to templates, playbooks, and precedent libraries that improve transaction execution

🎯 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 • At least 5 years of relevant experience in U.S. and global mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and complex commercial transactions • Experience advising on complex commercial arrangements involving global supply chains, including production, manufacturing, services, or technology-related transactions • Demonstrated experience negotiating and closing transactions with counterparties located outside the United States • Experience providing practical legal advice to business clients and supporting senior attorneys on significant legal and commercial matters • Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, problem-solving, and business judgment skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable, and business-friendly advice • Strong interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and maturity to build trust with business clients, legal colleagues, and external stakeholders • Collaborative team player • Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as business necessities require • Preferred: Experience supporting transactions or legal matters in automotive, mobility, technology, manufacturing, energy, or advanced manufacturing sectors • Preferred: Combination of rigorous major law firm training and in-house corporate legal experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement / home-based work in Michigan • Full-time salaried position • Opportunity to support enterprise priorities in electrification, software and connectivity, energy, autonomy, and government or defense-related programs • Opportunities to use artificial intelligence, automation, and legal technology in legal service delivery