Counsel

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! Job Description Summary: The Counsel is a strategic and cross-functional role. As such, the successful candidate will provide commercial legal services to in-house clients, primarily Sales, as well as across multiple functions at Rocket Software . Essential Duties and Responsibilities : Principal duties include structuring, drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, including direct sales and partner agreements and associated ancillary documents, incoming and outgoing and confidentiality agreements, as well as complex strategic contracts. Duties also include: serving as legal counsel on business deals; resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, provide legal support to management and business units regarding applicable laws and regulations and participate in new business processes within the business and risk areas. Develop a thorough understanding of Rocket’s business, products, markets, customers and partners in order to identify trends and formulate effective compliance strategies. Counsel the business team on legal issues and risks, business strategies, complex deal structures, approval processes, intellectual property and other issues related to technology transactions. Provide day to day responses to requests for legal support for the company as needed. Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situation and/or data requires evaluation of intangibles and legal expertise. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results and acting independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments. Counsel and collaborate with other members of the legal department in areas of expertise. Ensure group companies’ compliance to laws and regulations such as Data Protection, Anti-bribery, Export Controls and other legal and regulatory requirements. Help with the maintenance and update of