Description
We are seeking a Corporate Attorney to provide comprehensive legal support across corporate, governance, and insurance distribution matters. You will act as a trusted business partner, supporting the company's strategic objectives through pragmatic, risk-based legal advice, while ensuring compliance with applicable corporate, insurance, and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Supporting the Head of Legal:
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements and corporate documentation.
- Provide practical legal advice on contracting strategies, contractual risk management, and dispute avoidance.
- Promote a proactive legal culture and foster early engagement with Legal on strategic initiatives.
Commercial and Contractual Matters:
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial agreements and corporate documentation.
- Provide practical legal advice in relation to contracting strategies, contractual risk management, and dispute avoidance.
- Promote a proactive legal culture and foster early engagement with Legal on strategic initiatives.
Corporate Governance and Secretarial Services:
- Provide corporate secretarial support.
- Coordinate the preparation and approval of annual accounts and statutory corporate filings.
- Draft minutes, board resolutions, shareholder resolutions, corporate certificates, powers of attorney, and other governance documentation.
- Support the appointment and interaction with auditors, notaries, registries, and other external authorities.
- Manage company incorporations, corporate restructurings, amendments to articles of association, capital changes, and other corporate transactions.
- Maintain corporate records and ensure ongoing compliance with applicable corporate governance requirements.
Corporate Transactions and International Structures:
- Assist with the incorporation and establishment of new entities and branches across multiple jurisdictions.
- Participate in strategic projects involving business expansion, operational transformation, governance enhancements, and regulatory change.
Insurance Regulatory and Distribution Support (desirable):
- Advise on insurance distribution activities and applicable regulatory requirements, including the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) and related local implementing legislation.
- Support the development and maintenance of regulatory governance frameworks, policies, and procedures applicable to distribution activities.
- Provide legal advice on customer-facing processes, distribution arrangements, delegated service models, and outsourcing structures.
- Monitor relevant regulatory developments affecting insurance distribution and provide timely guidance to the business.
- Support interactions with insurance partners, regulators, and supervisory authorities where required.
Requirements:
- Professional qualification in the legal sector.
- 2-4 years of experience in insurance/regulated sectors, corporate, consumer, and commercial laws.
- Fluency in Spanish and English; French is a plus.
- Experience supporting multinational organizations and cross-border projects.
- Business-minded, result-oriented, service-driven, flexible, hands-on, proactive, and pragmatic.
- Well-organized and a good communicator.
- Team player.
The successful candidate will support businesses and operations based in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to a motivating and competitive remuneration package, the role offers the opportunity to be part of a supportive team key to the success of a business enjoying strong and exciting growth in a sector which makes a difference to people's lives.