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Date:Feb 5, 2025

Location: Essen, North Rhine, DE

Company: Hatch

Hatch provides business, engineering, and technical solutions to mining, metal, energy, infrastructure, and digital companies globally. We are passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change, partnering with clients to develop ideas that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative.

We have a global network of 10,000 professionals who work on the world’s toughest challenges. Hatch is employee-owned with one globally shared goal to succeed which allows us to bring together diverse teams and combine vast engineering and business knowledge, working in partnership with clients to support them throughout the lifecycle of their assets, from strategy development to design, delivery and ramp-up of complex capital projects and production and cost optimization.

At Hatch we take pride in our values which shape our culture and decision making. We operate with Vision, Mission, Values and Personality described in our corporateManifesto (https://www.hatch.com/About-Us/About-the-Company/Our-Manifesto) .

We are looking for a dynamicLegal Counselto join our Global Commercial, Contracts and Corporate Legal Services (CCL) team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all aspects of Commercial and Corporate legal and litigation issues for the German office which includes providing pre-litigation counseling to internal teams.

• Become a trusted advisor to cross-functional partners across Hatch, including Legal, commercial and other business teams in order to provide counsel in respect of existing and potential litigation matters.

• Advise on litigation risks and provide insights and/or relevant training to other members of Hatch’s business where required

• Partner with outside counsel to take an active role in litigation and disputes, develop strategy to manage and successfully resolve claims.

• Collaborate with other external in-house counsel and legal organizations on litigation and policy matters that have the potential to affect Hatch’s worldwide operations.

• Help to ensure compliance with developments in Canadian laws and regulations

• Assist as necessary in the other work of the Canadian legal team

  QUALIFICATIONS

  Core Qualifications :

• Fully qualified lawyer authorized to practice law in Germany with experience in private practice or an in-house legal team in Canada

• 5+ years of experience in litigation (with emphasis on employment litigation) and the possession of following skills:

• legal drafting (including but not limited to pleadings, responses, briefs etc.)

• development and execution of litigation strategy

• litigation management (including working with external counsel, managing litigation budgets and litigation reporting)

• advocacy experience at superior court, arbitral or tribunal level

• Familiarity with online collaborative workspace technologies including Microsoft SharePoint

• Ability to work collaboratively, independently, strategically, and with sound judgment

• Excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects under deadlines

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

  Preferred Qualifications

• • commercial and/or professional liability litigation experience

• experience negotiating commercial agreements

• Work with great people (https://bit.ly/36124ja) to make a difference

• Collaborate on exciting projects (http://bit.ly/HatchProjects) to develop innovative solutions

• Top employer (https://bit.ly/3p39hIa)

• Flexible work environment

• Long term career development

• Think globally, work locally

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