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HP Legal group provides legal advice and support that helps our clients achieve the company's business objectives in a manner that complies with applicable legal and ethical standards.
The Litigation team directly handles, strategically manages, or monitors and reports on the Company's litigation and legal-related governmental investigations on a worldwide basis. Our mission is to provide the best legal advice and support to HP worldwide on litigation and government-related investigation matters, to help our internal clients achieve HP’s objectives in a legal and ethical manner.
The Regions Litigation team is currently composed by a dynamic group of in-house litigators based in Spain, Germany, Italy, China and Brazil with responsibility on all type of disputes and governmental investigations concerning HP outside the US. This team is also responsible for providing legal support on specific regulatory fields in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) jurisdictions, in particular in competition law and IP public policy.
HP Inc. has an immediate opening for a Litigation Manager to join our Regions Litigation Team.
We are looking for a litigator with experience commercial litigation and governmental investigations, in particular in the field of competition law, to be located preferably at HP offices either in Poland (Warsaw), The Netherlands (Amstelveen), Germany (Boeblingen) or Spain (Madrid) and to act at an international level as in-house Litigation Manager mainly for (1) commercial litigations in specific EMEA countries and/or fields of expertise, (2) competition law related proceedings (including requests for information from competition authorities, investigations or litigations), (3) HP patent enforcement actions across any countries in EMEA, with assistance of specialized IP attorneys, (4) legal-related governmental investigations, and (5) any other sort of disputes, including consumer class actions.
As part of the assigned responsibilities, the candidate will:
Act as HP’s leading Litigation Manager for strategic disputes and governmental investigations in EMEA region.
Be responsible for strategically managing, monitoring and/or reporting significant litigation matters in several jurisdictions in EMEA (jurisdictions and/or matters to be defined depending on place of residence of candidate, legal practicing experience, language capabilities and most appropriate split of the ongoing portfolio among team members). This may include covering jurisdictions located in Eastern European jurisdictions and include primarily commercial disputes and, when existing, competition-law related matters, but may also include disputes or investigations of other legal nature, including collective legal actions, which will be handled in coordination with HP’s in-house counsels allocated to provide general legal support to HP businesses in the country or EMEA-wide.
Manage outside counsel hired for those significant litigations and investigations with the goal of meeting Regions Litigation costs and outcomes forecasts.
Provide assistance and know how to any other HP in-house counsels on matters relating to litigation risks (early case risk assessment, litigation fees, etc.), providing an interface between them and HP’s worldwide Litigation team.
Perform the function at an international level and be required to interact intensively with legal colleagues dealing with similar matters at a world-wide or regional level.
Education and Experience:
Law school graduate with JD or LLB degree or equivalent.
Admitted to the bar with typically 10+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE), with experience working within the Litigation or Competition Law practice in a reputable law firm or in-house.
Significant experience managing multiple, complex and strategic commercial, competition law, consumer class actions and/or other specialty litigations and/or governmental investigations.
Language Skills:
English language skills to business standard required.
Fluency in languages other than English, particularly French, is a plus.
Specialized Knowledge:
Mastery of practical and academic knowledge within the field of Litigation and/or legal-related governmental investigations (particularly in competition law), and a recognized authority in one or more sub-areas within these fields.
Developed understanding of how to operate successfully in the international legal environment in the filed litigation and/or legal-related governmental investigations, preferably in competition law.
Mastery in negotiating or advising senior representatives of external and internal organizations on complex and high value/risk matters in litigation and/or legal-related governmental investigations, preferably in competition law.
Additional Qualifications:
The successful candidate will ideally possess the following additional qualifications, which will be considered a plus, but not a must, to determine the suitability of the candidate:
International legal experience, particularly experience in litigations in other countries outside the country of residence, is a very positive differentiator.
Experience on affirmative actions and enforcement of patents, trademarks and/or other IP rights is a plus.
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