Interim General Counsel/Legal Director

Interim General Counsel/Legal Director

Interim management is an effective managerial solution for companies of all sizes to deal with an unprecedented situation, a managerial emergency or to accelerate their transformation.

MANAGERIM, expert in interim management, provides you with interim managers specializing in legal affairs everywhere in France, Europe or further internationally (Africa, Asia, Middle East...).

Our community of legal professionals includes interim managers in top and middle management (legal director, legal manager, legal affairs manager, senior lawyer, etc.) with:

• solid general knowledge of corporate law and its jurisprudence, French/European regulations, business law, competition law, consumer law, labor law...
• specialization in a particular field (patent law, merger and acquisition law, insurance law, health law, pharmaceutical law, real estate law, urban planning law, etc.)
• sectorial expertise
• good financial and tax knowledge
• strong leadership, anticipation, analysis and synthesis skills, diplomacy and good communication skills

Our interim managers are men and women selected after a rigorous and demanding process, as much for their expertise as for their interpersonal skills.

The missions of an interim legal director

The legal director's mission is to define the strategy for defending the company's interests in all legal and tax matters. He/she advises the management and operational departments on legal matters, both on projects and on litigation.

Assignments include various responsibilities:

• Provide management and legal advice to the general management: preparation of boards of directors, ordinary and extraordinary general meetings, supervisory boards, mandatory reports, minutes... in compliance with the regulations in force
• Analyzing and proposing legal arrangements, in particular monitoring joint ventures, sales and acquisitions of holdings, creation and transformation of companies or subsidiaries, assets sales, commercial leases, etc.
• Analyze the legal risks of operations and raise awareness among all employees (e.g. protection of personal data and cybersecurity)
• Define pre-litigation and litigation management procedures in conjunction with the operational staff concerned: debt collection, reminders of unpaid invoices, applications for payment orders, litigation procedures, commercial litigation, etc.
• Managing and investigating cases: implementing formal notice procedures, summonses to court, etc. advising, if necessary, on the nature of the legal action to be taken (criminal, civil, commercial)
• Manage specific legal issues related to intellectual property (patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, trademark registration, etc.)
• Select and manage the relationship with external legal firms
• Represent the company before certain administrative authorities and before the courts
• Organize a permanent legal watch (evolution of national, European and international regulations, case law, competitors' practices...)

Why call upon an interim manager legal director of the interim management firm MANAGERIM?

Our interim managers, directors or legal managers have previous successful experience in managing legal departments:

• in companies of various sizes (hundreds or thousands of employees) in France or abroad in a multicultural environment
• in multiple sectors: construction, energy, environment, transportation, services, retail, food processing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, aeronautics, defense, high technology, mechanics, metallurgy, plastics, packaging, textiles, paper, wood, etc.
• in high-stakes situations (growth, decline, transformation, merger-acquisition, restructuring, crisis management...)

They know how to adapt rapidly and be immediately operational.

Our interim legal directors work on high value-added assignments in a variety of situations:

• Temporarily replace a manager at short notice (Group or BU Legal Director, Legal Manager, Senior Legal Officer)
• Provide operational support to a legal team during a period of increased activity
• Manage the legal team: lead, organize, ensure a rise in skills...
• Lead the legal function and manage strategic files and priority projects (e.g. M&A operations, JV agreements, asset disposals, industrial cooperation contracts and technical assistance, litigation management, opening or closing of sites or subsidiaries, etc.)
• Acting as a Business Partner to the general management and operational departments: decision support, negotiation, drafting and securing agreements, risk and opportunity management, etc.
• Participate in the legal set-up of complex projects such as infrastructures and management of issues related to guarantees
• Managing a specific crisis
• Leading change

Throughout their assignments, our interim managers are supported by one of our partners, who guarantees the quality of the assignment and the methodology developed by MANAGERIM.