Assistant General Counsel - M&A

Assistant General Counsel - Corporate and M&A

Aon, a dynamic professional services company, is seeking an experienced, hard-working, highly motivated and collaborative Assistant General Counsel to join the Corporate Law team supporting M&A and strategic transactions across the firm, with a focus on transactions in EMEA and APAC.

This role reports to the Global Chief Counsel, Corporate and is based in Aon's operating headquarters in London. This is a role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from the London office.

Position Responsibilities:

• Advise business leaders on legal matters relating to strategic transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, strategic investments, and other transactions.
• Progress key legal and business workstreams in connection with M&A transactions, including liaising with key stakeholders such as Corporate Development, Finance, Technical Accounting, Treasury, People Organization, Law & Compliance, Commercial Real Estate, Investor Relations and Risk Management.
• Coordinate due diligence and handle external consultants, including outside counsel, financial and other advisers. Support with the shortlisting and selection of outside counsel and maintain relationships with them.
• Support strategic acquisitions globally, principally across the EMEA & APAC regions.
• Support on corporate matters, including corporate secretarial, securities, corporate structuring, and governance matters, including producing and updating internal policies and procedures.
• Draft and negotiate transaction documents (including producing and updating in-house standard form agreements), conduct and oversee legal due diligence, advise on disclosure exercises and closings.
• Advise internal clients on integration and separation planning and execution following divestments and acquisitions.
• Lead teams of legal and non-legal professionals in due diligence exercises.
• Work with senior leadership in the Law & Compliance department and across the firm to communicate and resolve key legal and business issues in strategic transactions, including developing and overseeing the implementation of post-closing remediation plans where relevant.

Minimum Requirements:

• Approximately 7+ years post-qualification experience and experience gained within law firms or corporate in-house legal departments. In-house experience is desirable but not required.
• Significant experience advising corporations on M&A and strategic transactions, with experience in cross-border transactions in EMEA and APAC.
• Experience building collaborative relationships: Establishes relationships based on trust and respect. Promotes the inclusion of diverse knowledge, skills, and experiences to achieve results.
• Excellence in execution: Proactively seeks ways to improve effectiveness to meet business needs. Learns equally from successes and failures.
• Excellent analytical skills and versatility in solving and handling legal issues.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize workload and challenging priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Proven organization, facilitation, communication and presentation skills to a wide spectrum of audiences.
• Excellent business and legal judgment.
• Ability to exercise the highest ethical standards and risk-based business decision making.
• Ability to understand complex legal requirements and build solutions.

Skills:

• Strong legal and analytical skills with a creative mindset and a demonstrated ability to work on projects.
• Ability to gather facts from various sources and take initiative to get information that is not provided.
• Qualities such as integrity, professionalism, leadership, judgment, initiative, follow-through, strong work ethic, reliability, critical thinking, ability to implement perfectly, ability to work independently, relationship skills and respect for others.
• Confidence in decision-making and the ability to make decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, experience and judgment.
• Comfort with a degree of responsibility and motivation to proactively lead project work.
• Ability to optimally collaborate and partner with in-house attorneys.

Aon offers you:

A competitive reward package, continuing education and training, and potential with a growing worldwide organization.