Commercial Contracts Attorney
On-siteLa Ciudad, Estado de Durango, Mexico
Job Summary
Advise internal clients on legal implications and risk exposures for real estate and procurement matters across multiple geographies. Draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements including confidentiality agreements, real estate leases, construction contracts, equipment leases, asset purchase agreements, and IT-related services agreements. Represent the company in interactions with landlords, vendors, and service providers while managing multiple matters with varying priorities. Support litigation management and answer general legal questions from global business teams. Fluency in English and Spanish is required, with a law degree and active license to practice in Mexico.
Required Qualifications
- A law degree
- a professional license/authorization to practice law in Mexico in good standing
- Fluency in both English and in Spanish
- Previous experience in the freight forwarding and logistics industry
- Strong experience in real estate and commercial law
- Significant contract drafting and negotiation experience
- The ability to identify, analyze, assess, and communicate legal risks to enable internal clients to make quality, risk-adjusted business decisions
- Impeccable integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness and an appropriate initiative and work ethic
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Excellent time management and prioritization abilities
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Excellent judgment and common sense
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
- A successful candidate must pass Expeditors' pre-employment background check
Desired Qualifications
- three (3) to five (5) years of experience practicing law in a law firm or the corporate legal department of a global corporation
- support the Real Estate and Global Sourcing practice group
- advising Expeditors' internal clients on legal implications and risk exposures involved in real estate and procurement-related matters across multiple geographies
- representing the company's best interests in interactions with landlords, vendors, and service providers
- advising internal clients on best practices, risk mitigation strategies, and corporate requirements
- drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex agreements
- confidentiality agreements
- real estate lease agreements
- construction agreements
- equipment lease agreements
- asset purchase agreements
- various types of services agreements
- information technology-related agreements (e.g., SaaS agreements)
- support litigation management
- answer general legal questions from various business teams globally
- contribute to various strategic initiatives owned by the Legal Department and the practice group
- effectively manage multiple matters with different priorities at the same time
- Previous experience in the freight forwarding and logistics industry (preferred but not required)
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