Legal, Administration, Security & Compliance Expansion Legal Counsel Expansion Legal Counsel

As legal counsel for Expansion, you will play a key role in legal matters relating to our store portfolio, our lease agreements, and our wider expansion projects and processes - managing internal and external stakeholders and business partners. As a strong informal leader, you advise, lead, and guide the business on a variety of real estate matters (and potentially other matters!),

• Advise on, draft and lead negotiations (as necessary) across all Leasing deals (including agreements for lease, leases, side letters, deeds of variation, licences to alter).


• Working with outside counsel and H&M's internal teams (accounts, construction, facilities etc.) in connection with real estate related transactions and issues.


• Preparing standard heads of terms and assisting the leasing team in the negotiation of terms for each new deal.


• Advising H&M in connection with planning, litigation and a variety of other real estate related matters (together with some general commercial issues).


• Advising H&M in connection with Landlord & Tenant 1954 Act issues.


• Work collaboratively with global legal teams to advise on UK market specific legal goals and challenges.


• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts for all facilities management aspects of the business.


• Tracking lease deals to drive strategy and ensuring lease actions are not missed.


• Reviewing landlord strategy and monitoring improvements in leases, creating precedents and building internal relationships.


• Constantly driving improvements to legal standards in leasing and wider Expansion.


• Supporting and coaching more junior members of the legal team in their development.
  
  Being part of our journey means there is not one clear path. We ask you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for open-minded team players that by being curious, innovative, and forward-thinking want to change our business and the whole industry., University degree and qualification as a solicitor in England and Wales together with a current Law Society practicing certificate (or appropriate jurisdiction)


• At least 5 years PQE commercial real estate experience acting for major retail tenants at a leading UK firm, ideally including in-house experience


• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage a high workload


• Ability to understand, interpret and draft real estate contracts


• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with Expansion leadership team, outside counsel and opposing counsel


• Ability to work as a team member with non-lawyers and in teams with a wide variety of experience and levels of qualification


• Ability to explain legal processes and issues to non UK based colleagues


• Ability to give training to members of the UK and Irish team
  
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  We are more about personality and competence - leadership and value driven approach are key. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, apply by sending your application through the career site as soon as possible but no later then Sunday 8th September . This is a full-time permanent position based in London and reports to the Head of Expansion., We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program - HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.


In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we're determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.