Legal Counsel (m/f) for Litigation and Investigations, Toulouse

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Tasks & accountabilities

• Preventing and/or defending threatened or impending legal action against the company in external investigations and product integrity investigation and litigation
• Coordinating the defence of Airbus in product liability claims with the primary-responsibility for case arising in Arabic-speaking nations
• Coordinating in-house case management, including interface with compliance, client departments, insurers and supervise external counsel
• Advising executive management and training general management on legal implications of their work, decisions and documentation relating to pending and possible litigation threats
• Managing complex legal cases involving multiple internal departments and third parties such as insurers and industrial partners as well as their respective counsel in a high risk environment
• Following other regulatory developments, analysing their effects on company business policies and advising management of implications.
• This role will involve some travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Required skills

• Advanced Law degree (French Law), substantial legal international experience on common law and comparative law
• At least 3 years’ experience in litigation as corporate counsel in the aerospace industry or other high-risk business or as law firm attorney
• At least 2 years’ experience in International law
• Ability to simultaneously manage several complex legal and internal procedures
• Cooperative and coordination skills
• Team work
• Project management skills
• A fluent level of French and English are required for this position. Working knowledge of Arabic would be a great asset, German or Spanish would be a plus.