.Senior Legal Manager Country: Spain WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture, and disability.
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Corporate Legal forms, along with Business Legal, the legal team at Santander Headquarters, functioning as a single unit.
The Corporate Legal team provides legal advice on a wide range of different areas, with significant overlap across them, such as corporate M&A (including the execution of the Group M&A transactions and the management and governance bodies of the entities/branches pertaining to or invested from the Group parent), corporate governance (including investor relations matters and financial information reporting to foreign stock exchanges and regulators), finance and regulatory affairs (including the equity and debt capital markets activities for the Group's own account and financial accounting and control matters), T&O and IP, litigation and legal risk, general services, communications, human resources, etc.
We are looking for a role of Senior Legal Manager with significant corporate law and M&A experience that will cover a wide array of matters in the Santander Corporate Legal team, but with likely focus on: The execution of strategy, corporate development and M&A transactions of the Santander Group (sale and purchases of shares/assets, mergers, strategic alliances, etc.)
both in Spain and abroad, affecting several regulated/non-regulated businesses (including those arising from digital & innovation projects).
This will cover among others the following tasks: transaction structuring, review and negotiation of transaction documents (including regulatory filings), preparation of documents for, and participation in, the Group committees/management bodies, and continuous interaction with external counsel and other Group areas/teams involved in this kind of transactions as applicable (strategy & corporate development, business leaders, compliance, tax, risks, capital management, communications, accounting, etc.).
Providing legal advice on general corporate/corporate governance matters such as internal restructurings, secretariat functions in group companies, call and celebration of Banco Santander's General Shareholders Meeting, drafting of the Annual Report, support to investors relations team, etc.
Experience in dealing with listed/banking entities and with financial services regulatory matters generally will be valued.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCE Minimum of 8 years' experience in M&A, general corporate, other corporate finance activities (e.G