Positions in Japan and Mexico. (Scroll down to review both.)

1. CORPORATE COUNSEL, IN-HOUSE TOKYO

This posiiton is with a well established, multi-national, high tech company that connects people to the network. Whether it's using e-learning to educate students far from city centers or downloading the entire Library of Congress in seconds, their networking technology has not only revolutionized the way people do things, but helps them become more informed, more efficient, and more involved. With all forms of communications converging onto the network, our client's company is entering an exciting new era.

The successful candidate will enjoy broad responsibility and have the opportunity to explore the dynamic technology areas of our client's rapidly expanding business. The ideal candidate is comfortable working independently, and exhibits the poise, presence and decision-making skills to advise senior management on critical legal issues.

Responsibilities include counseling the business units, supporting the sales staff and interfacing with customers as well as structuring and drafting non-standard contracts, and contracts of major impact on the corporation and its business. This position will act as primary negotiator for contractual negotiations, analyze complex legal and business situations, develop recommendations which meet the business and legal needs of the company as well as establishing legal policy for contracts and contract negotiation.

We are looking for a candidate who has 8+ years law firm or industry relevant experience, multi-national/ international legal knowledge and expertise; knowledge of contractual law, anti-trust and Intellectual Property. The ideal candidate will speak native Japanese, have knowledge of Japanese law, and a combination of having worked in Japan and the US.
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2. CORPORATE COUNSEL IN-HOUSE MEXICO CITY

This is an opportunity for experienced attorney with strong academic credentials to join the Emerging Markets Legal Team of a multinational high-tech company. As a member of this dynamic team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a world class group of legal professionals in an environment that rewards innovation and success, challenges and expands your comfort zone, and provides the support, technology and educational opportunities to succeed.

Reporting to the Director of Legal for Emerging Markets, who is based in London, the successful candidate will be based in Mexico City, Mexico, with a focus on the Mexican market as well as assisting across Central America and the Northern South American Countries.

This role will involve negotiating, drafting, and analyzing (in both Spanish and English) a wide variety of sales and strategic alliance agreements with the company's most important customers in the region as well as working collaboratively with other members of the Emerging Markets Legal team covering Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa and Middle East and Russia/CIS.

Negotiate strategic sales contracts with Fortune 500 customers to deliver systems that enable amazing productivity gains, using cutting edge technologies and state of the art web enablement. In the recently published Fortune magazine survey, this company was voted as one of the 2007 top 100 best companies to work for, and is the only large corporation to have been consistently in the Top 100.