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The Legal Transformation Lead is a senior, high-impact role within the Alter Domus Group Legal team, sitting at the intersection of legal practice, corporate development, and operational change. Reporting directly to the Group Head of Legal, this role owns three interconnected mandates: leading the legal aspects of M&A and corporate transactions, building and maintaining the legal team's performance metrics and reporting framework, and driving the operational transformation of the legal function as the business scales.
This is not a conventional in-house counsel role. The successful candidate will combine strong transactional legal skills with the commercial mindset and program management capability of a business transformation leader.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
M&A and Corporate Transactions
Lead legal workstreams on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, liftouts, and corporate restructurings across the group, coordinating internal teams and external counsel from mandate through to completion
Conduct and manage legal due diligence on target entities, including review of fund administration contracts, DCM documentation, regulatory authorisations, employment arrangements and material agreements
In line with outside counsel, review and negotiate transaction documentation including SPAs, shareholders' agreements, merger protocols and ancillary documents
Manage post-completion integration from a legal perspective — entity rationalisation, contract novation, regulatory notifications and transition service agreements
Brief the Group Head of Legal and Board on transaction risk, legal structuring options and deal timeline
Legal Transformation and Change Management
Lead the legal transformation program — defining the roadmap, prioritizing initiatives and driving execution across the legal team, coordinating with all legal verticals and, in particular, the Head of
Legal Quality Control
Help design and implement standardized processes, workflows and intake models for legal service delivery across all business lines
Evaluate, select and implement legal technology solutions (contract lifecycle management, matter management, e-billing, AI-enabled tools) in partnership with IT and operations
Drive adoption of new tools and processes through training, communication and stakeholder engagement across the legal team and the wider business
Identify opportunities to right-source legal work — optimizing the balance between in-house delivery, external counsel and alternative legal service providers
Champion a data-driven, continuous improvement culture within the legal team
Act as the legal team's primary interface with Lines of Business, Finance and Technology on shared transformation initiatives
Legal Metrics, Reporting and Performance Management
Design and own the legal team's KPI and metrics framework — tracking matter volumes, turnaround times, outside counsel spend, contract cycle times, regulatory filings and team capacity
Build and maintain dashboards and management reports for the legal team and senior leadership, providing real-time visibility into legal team performance and risk exposure
Produce regular board reporting on legal matters, M&A pipeline, key risks and…