Senior Corporate Counsel

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Summary of This Role

Provides legal advice and recommendations for action to executives, management, and contracts team regarding matters of varying complexity which have or may have a material dollar impact on business activities and operations. Utilizes a knowledge of one or more legal specialties with sound business acumen and knowledge of the business goals and objectives as they relate to the matter at hand. Research legal principles and precedents, consult with outside counsel, draft and execute legal documents, negotiates complex agreements, gather relevant case related information using multiple sources and methods, manages litigation, provide direction to external counsel, other professional, paraprofessional, and support staff in developing solutions to problems presented.

What Part Will You Play?

• Provides guidance on the more complex and unique situations and in diverse matters affecting day-to-day business operations by assisting, advising, investigating, researching, and resolving legal matters within corporate legal policies to ensure that Company personnel are aware of and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• Researches and is aware of related issues and changes in the laws to help anticipate the potential impact of changes on the organization.

• Drafts and negotiates complex agreements, reviews legal documents, and provides recommendations.

• Uses in-depth knowledge of a particular content area, with a broad reach in several other specialties, to work on assignments that require a deep understanding of the company's business needs, strategy, and operations as they relate to the given area of legal specialty. Supports, and on occasion leads, legal negotiation with customers and third parties.

• Prepares, recommends, and executes legal documents by analyzing, drafting, negotiating, and reviewing these documents to ensure consistency with respect to the company’s philosophy or principles with respect to risk and commercial and legal soundness.

• Investigates and handles claims by and against the organization, and may include supervising outside counsel on third party claims and litigation. Conducts interviews, prepares reports, responds to interrogatories, and assists in litigation and pretrial work.

• Has decision-making authority on legal, liability, risk, insurance, and legal compliance issues.

• Reviews and responds to insurance coverage requirements requested contractually by customers and third parties.

• Plans, directs and manages company intellectual property matters. including without limitation, patent matters. Prepares reports for and advises management as to the company's position on intellectual property issues.

• Maintains up-to-date knowledge in areas of special interest to the company, including, intellectual property, software licensing issues, international and domestic contract law, privacy, data protection, financial services, insurance issues, general corporate matters, servicing, vendor procurement, and other issues affecting outsourcing of financial and payments related services.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctor Degree

• Relevant Experience or Degree in: Graduate of accredited law school (including all other necessary prerequisites for gaining licensure to practice law), and maintaining qualifications and licensure throughout employment

• Typically Minimum 8 Years Relevant Experience

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Having ownership of a function, account or matrix management responsibilities, uses knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.

• Job Complexity - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups, both internal and external.

• Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.

• Emotional Intelligence - Possesses a set of competencies demonstrating the ability one has to recognize his or her behaviors, moods, and impulses, and to manage them best according to the situation. Typically, "emotional intelligence" is considered to involve emotional empathy; attention to, and discrimination of one's emotions; accurate recognition of one's own and others' moods; mood management or control over emotions; response with appropriate (adaptive) emotions and behaviors in various life situations (especially to stress and difficult situations); and balancing of honest expression of emotions against courtesy, consideration, and respect (i.e., possession of good social skills and communication skills). Selection of work that is emotionally

• Personal Competence (Emotional Intelligence) - Having self-awareness; Knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions. Being able to manage ones’ internal states, impulses and resources.
  —Recognizes one’s emotions and their effects on themselves and others.
  —Knows one’s strengths and limitations.
  —Possesses a strong sense of self worth, self-esteem and capabilities.
  —Emotional self-control such that disruptive emotions and impulses are kept in check.
  —Maintaining integrity; acting congruently with one’s values.
  —Adaptability; flexibility in handling change..
  —Having an achievement orientation; striving to improve and meet a standard of excellence.
  —Taking initiative; a readiness to act on opportunities
  —Being optimistic and persistent; the ability to pursue goals despite obstacles and setbacks.

• Social Competence (Emotional Intelligence) - Being able to productively handle relationships, both internal and external to the company. Having strong social awareness, i.e., being aware of others feeling, needs and concerns. Having strong relationship management skills; an adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others.
  —Sensing others’ feelings and perspectives, and taking an active interest in their concerns; ability to have empathy.
  —Having organizational awareness such that one can read emotional currents, drivers and relationships..
  —Having a strong service orientation that includes anticipating, recognizing and meeting others’ needs.
  —Sensing and noting others’ development needs, their strengths and weaknesses; and bolstering their abilities.
  —Being able to influence, persuade, influence and guide.
  —Appropriately manage conflict; negotiate and resolve disagreements.
  —Work with others toward shared goals..
  —Be a catalyst for change, and work to create group synergy.

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