# Litigation Counsel - EMEA

**Company**: HP
**Location**: Barcelona, Spain
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

HP seeks an experienced litigation lawyer to manage a significant portfolio of litigation and investigations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Based in Barcelona, the Litigation Counsel, EMEA will manage a diverse portfolio of disputes, advise on significant legal and business risks, and develop strategies that protect HP's interests and support its business objectives.

The role involves a broad range of litigation and investigations, which may include commercial, intellectual property, competition, consumer protection, privacy, employment, securities, and regulatory matters.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead litigation and dispute strategy

- Manage a broad portfolio of disputes across substantive areas

- Lead investigations and responses to government inquiries

- Provide substantive litigation counsel

- Coordinate cross-border matters

- Advise business and legal leaders

- Direct outside counsel

- Manage financial exposure and spend

- Lead factual and evidentiary development

- Prevent and reduce disputes

- Strengthen the global litigation function

**Required Qualifications:**

- Law degree and professional qualification to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction

- At least five years of post-qualification experience handling litigation and investigations

- Demonstrated experience leading or playing a substantial role in litigation strategy and handling matters through multiple stages of contested proceedings

- Experience managing matters across EMEA jurisdictions and coordinating local counsel and internal stakeholders

- Ability to handle a varied docket, develop command of unfamiliar subject matter, and work effectively with specialist lawyers

- Strong analytical, written advocacy, negotiation, and communication skills

- Ability to advise senior stakeholders with clarity, exercise independent judgment, and make practical recommendations under uncertainty

- Experience managing outside counsel, legal budgets, forecasts, and financial exposure, while balancing competing priorities

- Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to work effectively in a multinational environment

## Skills

### Required
- litigation
- investigations
- commercial law
- intellectual property law
- competition law
- consumer protection law
- privacy law
- employment law
- securities law
- regulatory law
- legal strategy
- case management
- budgeting
- forecasting
- communication skills
- analytical skills
- written advocacy
- negotiation skills

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- intellectual property and licensing disputes
- government investigations
- regulatory enforcement
- complex cross-border disputes
- litigation reserves and disclosure processes
- electronic discovery
- legal matter management systems
- additional European languages

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