Associate Legal Counsel

About the Role

This role protects IDEMIA by ensuring compliance with laws and contributes to IDEMIA value creation by providing legal advice in support of business decisions and operations.

Key Missions

• Covers all areas of law relevant for IDEMIA and/or the division.
• Structures, drafts, negotiates, and processes approval contracts, letters of agreement, policies, and other legal documents related to a variety of trade, commercial, financial, corporate, compliance, and operational matters.
• Provides legal advice and risk assessments to internal stakeholders.
• Defines litigation strategy and budget.
• Engages and manages external legal counsels in litigations and other disputes.
• Engages and manages external legal counsels as required.
• Communicates and negotiates with external parties (Regulators, Public authorities...).
• Develops legal, contractual, governance, and compliance processes, standards, tools, guidelines, and policies.
• Monitors law and regulations developments, analyzes impacts, and recommends changes where necessary (agreements, policies, bylaws) and supports the implementation of changes.
• Supports training of internal client organizations by continuous knowledge-sharing and coaching regarding IDEMIA governance and policies, as well as key legal/ethics and compliance/contract issues that impact the business.
• Examines business operations and behaviors to alert of any potential failure of compliance or regulatory breach.
• May include issuing and ensuring compliance of the organization to governance policies.
• May manage corporate secretarial matters for IDEMIA's and Divisions' legal entities.
• Researches applicable laws.
• Drafts memoranda on the law applied to facts.
• Uses tools within the department to support internal stakeholders.
• Negotiates ordinary course contracts (NDA, Teaming agreements, Simple purchase agreements, etc.).
• Learns and understands all the contract terms.
• Conducts the activities under the supervision of a more experienced lawyer.

Qualifications

• The raw description does not explicitly state specific qualifications or a required experience range. The role is described as "Associate Legal Counsel" and mentions conducting activities "under the supervision of a more experienced lawyer," implying a junior to mid-level role.