Legal Counsel - London, United Kingdom - McDonald's Limited

McDonald's Limited

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Opportunity:

The Opportunity

McDonalds is looking to recruit a highly motivated, proactive and effective real estate lawyer to join a dynamic and focussed inhouse Legal team known for having a friendly and supportive culture and wide-ranging and interesting workload.

What will my accountabilities be?
The role will report into Head of Real Estate Practice and will involve the following:

Undertaking acquisition transactional work and providing legal advice to the business on all matters connected with new restaurant acquisitions
Supervising and supporting external lawyers on acquisition transactions, and working closely with acquisition surveyors and other members of the Legal team
Helping the Legal and Development teams achieve targets for new store openings and transactional acquisition work
Providing day to day advice to colleagues in the Acquisitions, Estates and Construction teams on a variety of queries, both general and transactional
Working closely with external specialist planning and construction lawyers as appropriate
Monitoring and reviewing best practice, standard documents, policies and precedents used on acquisitions
Providing training on real estate legal matters to Real Estate colleagues and others
Identifying and communicating risks consistent with the both the risk appetite of the business and the legal department and advising accordingly
Helping to develop the legal skills of more junior members of the team
Proactively identifying market trends and regulatory changes to improve company policies and procedures, develop communication and training programmes and ensure awareness and compliance across the business.

What Team will I be a part?

The Senior Legal Counsel will be a member of the Real Estate sub-team (which consists of four lawyers and one paralegal) and will report into the Head of Real Estate Legal Practice.

Who are my customers?