The Senior Legal Counsel is responsible for managing a number of projects related to Accenture’s entity structure, including entity restructurings, post-acquisition integration entity transactions, elimination of entities, divestitures, other ad hoc projects, including coordination of complex entity transactions involving multiple countries across Accenture, and supervise outside counsel as necessary.

Scope of the Role

• Manage corporate entity matters work (e.g., intra group reorganizations, share transfers, in-kind distributions/contributions, business transfers, mergers and liquidations, etc.)
• Assist in managing global corporate programs such as entity eliminations, and in some cases governance including corporate secretarial activities in support of shareholder- and board meetings (e.g., prepare board briefing packages, presentations, minutes and instruct external advisers on any filings with the relevant corporate authorities)
• Manage due diligence for entity/corporate transactions and projects
• Collaborate with members of Legal, HR, tax, treasury, controllership and other teams
• Coordinate entity transactions related to the acquisition of target groups and their integration into Accenture entities across multiple countries
• Assume Market Unit specific assignments on an ad hoc basis
• Supervise outside counsel and manage legal budgets for different projects
• Leverage internal and external resources with reusable and industrialized knowledge, including curating precedent documents for future use (and help establish precedent library)
• Collaborate with and leverage team responsible for tracking entity information and maintaining entity books and records for legal entities and proactively manage the liquidation / dissolution of unnecessary legal entities

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Education: Bachelor's Law degree required

Work Experience:  5+ years of experience as an attorney, at least 4 of which involved mergers and acquisitions, entity transactions such as restructurings, share transfers, mergers, liquidation, etc. and corporate governance; cross border transactional experience is required.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong executive presence and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with senior business leaders and manage board meetings, present on complex transactions/issues, etc.

• Deep understanding of company corporate structures and ability to advise on and implement tax efficient structures alongside our Tax Team

• Excellent understanding of director’s liabilities

• Deep knowledge of corporate principles and ability to support complex transactions involving multiple countries/legal systems

• Proven track record of managing teams of professionals and external law firms

• Self-starter and goal-orientated; demonstrates excellent judgment, ability to prioritize and make decisions, and identify risks

• Able to manage, counsel, educate, persuade, motivate, and supervise legal professionals from various cultures and backgrounds

• Fluent in English; ability to work in multiple languages including German is a plus

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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