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Elevate
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Regional Counsel Americas and Europe

Regional Counsel Americas and Europe (03/07/2025)...

Regional Counsel

Regional Counsel

Regional Counsel

Regional Counsel

Job Description

Overview:

We are seeking an accomplished and strategic legal professional to join our AME Regional Legal team as Regional Counsel, Americas & Europe. This is a critical leadership role responsible for delivering senior-level legal counsel that enables commercial growth, business transformation, and effective risk management across diverse regulatory environments in the AME region.

The successful candidate will work in close partnership with the Senior Regional Counsel and Regional General Counsel to implement Group legal initiatives, embed governance frameworks, and ensure legal alignment across markets and functions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Execute AME’s regional legal strategy to support commercial growth and business transformation.
  • Provide senior-level legal advice on complex regulatory, commercial, and governance matters.
  • Identify and mitigate legal and reputational risks to ensure long-term business sustainability.
  • Lead regional legal initiatives across DRBUs and End Markets, ensuring consistent implementation.
  • Oversee high-value legal matters, including marketing compliance and commercial risk management.
  • Drive adoption of global legal best practices across AME to enhance efficiency and consistency.
  • Conduct regulatory risk assessments and respond to evolving legal requirements.
  • Collaborate with CORA to develop advocacy strategies that protect business interests.
  • Advise on legal issues related to product compliance, advertising, and market access.
  • Support corporate governance processes in line with Group standards.
  • Manage regional litigation and internal investigations to safeguard corporate integrity.
  • Lead compliance initiatives in competition law, anti-bribery, and data protection (e.g., GDPR).
  • Engage with senior business stakeholders to embed legal guidance into strategic decisions.
  • Manage external counsel to ensure high-quality, cost-effective legal support.
  • Represent AME in global legal forums, contributing regional insights to Group legal strategy.

    Experience, Skills & Knowledge

    Essential:

  • Senior qualified lawyer with a strong background in regulatory, commercial, and corporate law.
  • Demonstrated leadership in managing complex, high-impact legal projects in a multinational setting.
  • Strong influencing skills with the ability to advise executive stakeholders and shape legal outcomes.
  • Commercially astute, pragmatic, and able to operate effectively under pressure.
  • Strategic thinker with a solution-oriented mindset and deep understanding of legal risk.
  • Expertise in compliance and governance, particularly in highly regulated industries such as FMCG, pharmaceuticals, or similar sectors.

    Highly Advantageous:

  • Experience with cross-border regulatory frameworks within the Americas and Europe.
  • Familiarity with litigation strategy, internal investigations, and regulatory enforcement processes.

    Cross-Functional and External Collaboration:

  • Proven ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders across functions, including Marketing, Operations, HR, CORA, Finance, and Tax.
  • Experienced in working with Central Legal Teams (Corporate, Compliance, IP, Company Secretariat, Litigation).
  • Effective engagement with external legal advisers and third-party providers.
  • Comfortable operating in a matrixed, multicultural environment and liaising with counterparts in other regions, such as APMEA, to ensure global alignment.

    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, the 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 the Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

    Our Vision is 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 drives innovation and is simply good business.

    As a strong proponent of diversity, equity, 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.
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