HEAD OF LITIGATION

Head of Litigation

Qualifications

Established in 1980, Badenoch & Clark is a professional staffing company focused in the areas of Accounting & Finance, Banking & Financial Services, Human Resources, Legal, and Marketing & Communications. We are offering recruiting solutions for managers, professionals and executives with our offices in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Sweden, Finand, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium and Turkey.

Badenoch & Clark has been helping senior professionals make the right connections since 1980, which means providing a service that goes beyond simply filling vacancies.

Our specialist professional recruitment consultants are experts in their field and work with you in a long term partnership, connecting our high value network of senior professionals and helping them to achieve their career and business goals.

Our client is a well-known legal company. For their growing organization we are looking for a;

• University degree in Law (Masters degree will be a plus)
• 9-12 years of corporate legal experience in an international professional environment or a reputable law firm with multinational clients
• Experienced in fields of corporate law, commercial law, contract law, labor law, enforcemant law, bankruptcy law and litigation
• Excellent command of English
• Excellent understanding in prevailing laws and regulations and skill related to litigation procedures
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of the organization
• Proven track record of strong negotiation, communication, organizational, and people management skills and the ability to influence and build relationships without direct authority
• Experience in handling high volume of work and activities involving multiple and complex projects simultaneously
• Decision making and planning ability, capable of handling and solving both project related and organizational problems and sound personality
• Analytical thinking, result oriented, enthusiastic, fast in action but with detailed planning
• Strong communication skills, cross-functional team-player and self-motivated

• Manage a diverse and a complex portfolio of litigation and investigation matters, enforcement actions, arbitration and dispute resolution across new and existing clients – both commercial/corporate & private
• Provide leadership and supervisory responsibility for a large group of high-performing attorneys and legal professionals
• Consult with and advise Partners and senior management, maintaining oversight responsibility in law-related areas of significant company-wide impact, as well as direct involvement in policy matters
• Coordinate with other legal groups on regulatory, compliance and operational issues
• Work collaboratively with a broad range of people to develop and maintain strong working relationships between legal, finance, people services, operations and business development teams and facilitate a team based approach