Senior Corporate Legal Counsel @ Sanoma
About this role
Calling all M&A and listed company governance legal experts!
Does your strongest legal expertise cover M&A, listed company governance, and potentially also financing arrangements? Do you thrive in a fast-evolving corporate environment? Do you find meaning in working with learning and media?
If you are thinking YES, please keep reading, because you could be the lawyer we are looking for to join Sanoma as the group’s new Senior Corporate Legal Counsel!
In this new role, you will join a Group-level legal team and report to the Chief Legal Officer of Sanoma. Sanoma’s Group-level legal team consists of the CLO and three direct reports. In total, a team of 20+ legal professionals support Sanoma’s group-level, learning and media operations.
Your main areas of responsibility will be:
1) Listed company governance
You will support in general company law, listed company governance and securities market regulations related topics. For example, you will ensure that actions based on Sanoma’s annual governance clock are prepared and managed in a timely manner, advise the Board, the Executive Leadership Team members, and other relevant colleagues in disclosure obligations under MAR and arrange the general meetings of Sanoma Corporation in cooperation with the Chief Legal Officer, Paralegal, and external legal support.
2) M&A projects
As a proactive deal-team member, you will identify, assess and deal with legal exposures Sanoma faces in M&A projects. For instance, you will review, draft, and negotiate transaction documents in line with prevailing group policies and procedures and ensure that necessary post-closing actions are in place and integration activities planned and executed. Should transactions related disputes arise, you will also manage these.
3) Financing transactions
You will play an active role in loan agreement negotiations and other financing transactions, and provide ongoing legal support to Sanoma’s Treasury function.
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