Senior Counsel, Transactions & Market Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Oversee and direct legal workstreams for both domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, collaborations, and joint ventures, managing everything from strategy and due diligence to negotiation, signing, closing, and post-closing integration.

• Draft, structure, and negotiate intricate commercial agreements and transaction documents, including but not limited to purchase, joint venture, shareholder, supply, service, manufacturing, technology, strategic collaboration, and licensing agreements.

• Spearhead complex commercial transactions that involve Ford's global supply chain, engineering, and manufacturing teams.

• Engage in senior-level planning and strategy formulation while negotiating directly with counterparties and joint venture partners across the globe.

• Strive to balance legal risks with business objectives through innovative, compliant, and risk-calibrated solutions.

• Advise senior management and business unit leaders on transaction risks, deal alternatives, governance, and execution strategies; prepare and present recommendations to executive leadership.

• Advocate for responsible applications of artificial intelligence, automation, and legal technology, ensuring adherence to legal judgment, confidentiality, privilege, compliance, and human oversight.

• Lead, manage, mentor, assess, and develop attorneys, paralegals, and other legal professionals.

• Coordinate legal teams across various functions on a global scale.

• Supervise outside counsel, including determining scope, staffing, budgets, work-product quality, and cost management.

• Create and enhance templates, playbooks, and precedent libraries.

• Assist in enterprise initiatives focused on 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 capability to register as in-house counsel upon relocating.

• A minimum of 15 years of proven and extensive leadership experience in negotiating and drafting significant complex commercial agreements as well as U.S. and global mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and collaborations.

• Significant experience in leading complex commercial transactions related to a global supply chain for manufacturing.

• Proven experience negotiating and finalizing transactions with counterparties located outside the United States.

• Demonstrated experience in advising senior management on critical legal and business issues.

• Proven ability to lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of attorneys and legal professionals.

• Exceptional skills in drafting, negotiation, and business judgment.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities, capable of translating complex legal concepts into clear, actionable, and business-friendly advice.

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional maturity to effectively advise, influence, and establish trust with senior executives and stakeholders.

• Willingness and capability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs arise.

• Experience providing legal support within the automotive or energy sectors (preferred but not mandatory).

• A combination of major law firm training and subsequent in-house corporate legal experience (preferred but not mandatory).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.