Senior Counsel – Americas Legal
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Senior Counsel providing embedded legal support for Cushman & Wakefield in a fast-paced, deal-driven environment. Leading high-value advisory work and complex commercial matters across multiple service lines.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key legal advisor to Cushman & Wakefield businesses, bringing sharp commercial judgment, innovative thinking, and a proactive, business‑aligned approach to problem‑solving.
- Build trusted relationships across the business and deliver clear, practical guidance in direct business terms.
- Lead sophisticated commercial matters under time‑sensitive deadlines, including MSAs and other integrated engagement structures.
- Provide practical guidance on commercial terms, risk dynamics, and market‑facing considerations while enhancing efficiency and consistency in contracting.
- Provide timely, business‑aligned guidance on a broad range of labor and employment matters across all worker classifications.
- Advise on transitions, performance and conduct issues, restrictive covenants, investigations, accommodations, and separations.
- Anticipate emerging risks and provide forward‑looking guidance across commercial, operational, regulatory, and talent‑related issues.
- Develop and deliver targeted training that translates complex legal and risk concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 8+ years of legal experience with substantial responsibility for complex commercial contracting and advisory work
- At least 3 years of law firm experience demonstrating strong analytical rigor, high‑quality drafting, and sophisticated client‑facing skills
- Demonstrated experience advising senior business and operational leaders on complex commercial, operational, financial, and risk issues
- Experience supporting brokerage, capital markets, valuation, or other transaction‑driven service lines or comparable experience advising fast‑paced commercial businesses with complex deal, risk, and financial dynamics
- Strong commercial judgment, the ability to quickly understand new business models
- Demonstrated judgment and independence in managing multiple complex, time‑sensitive priorities in a high‑velocity environment
- Experience providing business‑facing labor and employment guidance across a range of worker classifications
- Excellent communicator capable of distilling complex issues into concise, actionable guidance for senior leadership
- Executive presence with the ability to influence leaders and drive clarity across competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability and drive to lead with innovation - leveraging technology, AI, and other forward‑thinking approaches to enhance the speed, quality, and consistency of legal support.
Benefits:
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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