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

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

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.