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Senior Counsel – Americas Legal

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Location

Illinois

Posted

99 days ago

Salary

$161.7K - $190.2K / year

Seniority

Senior

8 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Senior Counsel – Americas Legal

Cushman & Wakefield

• Serve as a key legal advisor to Cushman & Wakefield businesses, bringing sharp commercial judgment, innovative thinking, and a proactive, business‑aligned approach to problem‑solving. • Build trusted relationships across the business and deliver clear, practical guidance in direct business terms. • Lead sophisticated commercial matters under time‑sensitive deadlines, including MSAs and other integrated engagement structures. • Provide practical guidance on commercial terms, risk dynamics, and market‑facing considerations while enhancing efficiency and consistency in contracting. • Provide timely, business‑aligned guidance on a broad range of labor and employment matters across all worker classifications. • Advise on transitions, performance and conduct issues, restrictive covenants, investigations, accommodations, and separations. • Anticipate emerging risks and provide forward‑looking guidance across commercial, operational, regulatory, and talent‑related issues. • Develop and deliver targeted training that translates complex legal and risk concepts into clear, actionable guidance.

Job Requirements

  • Juris Doctor and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
  • 8+ years of legal experience with substantial responsibility for complex commercial contracting and advisory work
  • At least 3 years of law firm experience demonstrating strong analytical rigor, high‑quality drafting, and sophisticated client‑facing skills
  • Demonstrated experience advising senior business and operational leaders on complex commercial, operational, financial, and risk issues
  • Experience supporting brokerage, capital markets, valuation, or other transaction‑driven service lines or comparable experience advising fast‑paced commercial businesses with complex deal, risk, and financial dynamics
  • Strong commercial judgment, the ability to quickly understand new business models
  • Demonstrated judgment and independence in managing multiple complex, time‑sensitive priorities in a high‑velocity environment
  • Experience providing business‑facing labor and employment guidance across a range of worker classifications
  • Excellent communicator capable of distilling complex issues into concise, actionable guidance for senior leadership
  • Executive presence with the ability to influence leaders and drive clarity across competing priorities
  • Demonstrated ability and drive to lead with innovation - leveraging technology, AI, and other forward‑thinking approaches to enhance the speed, quality, and consistency of legal support.

Benefits

  • health, vision, and dental insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid and unpaid time away from work

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