| Bell has a need for an Attorney to join our corporate Legal team at our headquarters in Fort Worth, TX. The Attorney will advise Bell’s business units, functions and senior management on a broad range of issues pertaining to commercial contracts, company policies, litigation, audits, and other issues. In particular, this position will support the commercial aircraft and aftermarket sales organizations on all variety of business matters, including but not limited to contract drafting and negotiation support on a broad range of aircraft and aftermarket transactions, legal support of business partner relationships and agreements from a transactional and compliance perspective, legal support of Bell entities/corporate records, management of legal issues requiring legal research and management of outside counsel, legal reviews of external communications, marketing materials and presentations, legal review and drafting/updating of contract templates, and coordination with internal stakeholders such as finance and tax departments on business matters. This role includes management of compliance matters and compliance training for internal and external audiences. The role includes support as required by internal stakeholders on various matters to include rollout of new company initiatives and programs. The role will report directly to the Sr. Assistant General Counsel for Bell’s commercial business and will be responsible for legal support of commercial business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The successful candidate should have expertise in domestic and international complex commercial contract transactions, including a practiced knowledge of the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and similar laws. The successful candidate will provide hands on legal advice regarding all legal matters affecting Bell, working directly with her or his business counterparts, other attorneys, the Bell Legal Staff, and the Textron compliance team. The successful candidate must be an experienced business partner. Position Responsibilities: - Provide legal advice on terms and conditions for both domestic and international sales and aftermarket service support.
- Work directly with business counterparts, identify legal risks and issues raised in contractual pursuits and on-going programs and develop risk mitigation strategies, as appropriate.
- Support complex legal transactions for commercial programs and businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
- Support efforts in response to audits and subpoenas, litigation and ethics investigations.
- Understand areas of legal compliance risk and appropriate mitigation measures for a variety of topics, such as global anti-corruption compliance (GACC), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); and U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.
- Perform due diligence reviews for Bell Covered Business Partners to assess legal risk of current and potential business partners, focusing on GACC and AML issues.
- Work with the Ethics professionals to investigate matters, perform revolving door reviews and help with training, as needed.
- Other special projects which may be necessary for the support of Bell’s business.
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