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Regional Counsel

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London
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We are seeking a senior lawyer for a contract role to support the AME (Americas & Europe) region’s legal strategy and commercial objectives. This role will be critical in enabling business transformation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and managing legal risk across diverse markets.

Acting as a strategic advisor, the Regional Counsel will lead high-impact legal initiatives and provide commercially-focused legal counsel across regulatory, marketing, compliance, and governance matters. The role requires strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and legal colleagues across the region and globally.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Legal Leadership & Business Enablement

  • Provide senior-level legal counsel aligned with business transformation goals.
  • Identify and mitigate legal and reputational risks in regulatory, commercial, and governance domains.
  • Shape legal strategy that balances risk management with commercial agility.
  • Lead regional execution of key legal initiatives, particularly around regulatory risk, marketing compliance, and governance frameworks.
  • Ensure consistent application of legal best practices across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Own the delivery of high-value legal support in a fast-paced environment.

3. Regulatory Complexity & Compliance

  • Conduct regulatory legal risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Lead legal responses to changing regulatory landscapes, ensuring business continuity.
  • Support development of advocacy positions on regulatory issues in partnership with corporate affairs colleagues.

4. Governance & Investigations

  • Act as a regional expert on corporate governance, ensuring legal integrity in processes.
  • Provide legal oversight on strategic litigation and internal investigations.
  • Drive implementation of compliance frameworks covering areas such as GDPR, anti-bribery, and competition law.

5. Stakeholder & External Counsel Engagement

  • Advise and influence senior internal stakeholders to align legal priorities with business goals.
  • Manage relationships with external legal advisors, ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness.
  • Represent the region in global legal forums and initiatives.

Core Relationships

Internal:

  • Regional marketing, operations, HR, finance, and legal teams
  • Central legal and compliance teams
  • Global functions including tax, audit, treasury, and M&A

External:

  • External legal advisors and third-party service providers

Experience & Qualifications

  • Qualified senior lawyer with expertise in regulatory, commercial, and corporate law
  • Proven ability to lead complex legal projects in a multinational environment
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Hands-on, commercially minded, with sound legal judgement
  • Experience working in highly regulated industries such as FMCG or pharmaceuticals
  • Expertise in governance, compliance, and risk management

Beneficial:

  • Cross-border legal experience in the AME region
  • Exposure to litigation, investigations, and regulatory advocacy

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Visionis a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.

Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeContract

Job function

  • Job functionLegal
  • IndustriesLegal Services

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