SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL FOR MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (M/F)

Job Description:

Airbus is looking for a Mergers & Acquisitions Senior Legal Counsel (f/m) to join our Legal Corporate Affairs department based in Toulouse, France.

This job is meant to impact Airbus’ major international and transversal projects and partnerships, which are all a critical part of the Airbus’ strategy toward its ambition to “pioneer a sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world”. This high-impact role is pivotal to shaping the future of Airbus’ group and to implementing Airbus’ long-term strategy.

Airbus Legal M&A is active on a global basis and addresses all types of M&A transactions (acquisitions, divestments, venture or growth capital, joint-ventures ...) for all the Airbus activities and divisions. This role implies to identify and mitigate risks, to ensure business integrity and to advise the senior management of Airbus.

Your challenges:

• Draft and negotiate preliminary agreements and transaction documents (e.g., Memorandum of Understanding, Letter of Intent, Share Purchase Agreement, Shareholders’ agreement, joint-venture agreement),
  
• Manage and perform legal due diligence as well as manage the post-closing matters,
  
• Mobilize, co-ordinate with or support, where necessary, other members of the legal department, especially with the antitrust and compliance teams
  
• Monitor compliance with relevant laws and regulations (notably from a Foreign Direct Investment perspective),
  
• Select and retain the external law firm(s) and manage this external legal support in a cost-efficient way and in line with internal priorities (which implies to coordinate with all relevant stakeholders of the project team like, for instance, M&A department, tax, finance, HR, insurance, real estate and business stakeholders),