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Chicago, IL - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

Mondelez Global LLC is seeking a Director & Senior Counsel M&A Competition & Global Law. The role requires substantive antitrust and merger control experience to provide legal analysis advice and support for global merger acquisition divestiture and joint venture (M&A) transactions while also offering growth and development opportunities across numerous global legal practices areas. Based in Chicago IL or East Hanover NJ this role will report to the Senior Director & Chief Counsel M&A Competition Law & Wellbeing.

How you will contribute

As a member of the legal M&A and Global Law team advise Mondelez and its subsidiaries on U.S. and global merger control and antitrust & competition law matters and have the opportunity to develop legal experience skills and expertise in global law areas such as wellbeing/food regulatory law and legal strategy artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain marketing and licensing. Primary responsibilities will include daytoday support of the merger control program for M&A transactions worldwide with sound commercially pragmatic and creative legal counsel to our businesses. Other matters to be assigned ad hoc may include helping support enterprise competition law program & commercial competition law matters wellbeing/food regulatory strategy and AI marketing supply chain and licensing matters.

What you will bring

To thrive in this role you will need strong business judgment commercial acumen and an ownership mindset as well as intellectual curiosity and an unrelenting commitment to driving solutions.

  • Global Merger Clearance:

    • Advise on all competition aspects of actual and potential M&A transactions including:

      • due diligence and integration planning;

      • desktop and full scope antitrust risk assessments;

      • structuring drafting and reviewing clean team agreements regulatory covenants and risk allocation;

      • developing strategies for obtaining approvals for multijurisdictional transactions;

      • global merger filings;

      • managing second requests and investigations;

      • reviewing executive and Board materials;

      • monitoring trends in merger clearance enforcement; and

      • engaging with regulators regarding third party M&A transactions.

    • Train business and function leaders as well as other stakeholders on document creation gun jumping and other competition related transaction risks; and

    • Help refine and manage a global merger clearance filing strategy;

    • Help refine manage and enhance comprehensive knowledge management practices including best practices tools and processes;

    • Partner with outside counsel and experts as appropriate on any of the above activities.

  • General Competition Law Counseling:

    • Partner as needed on design and implementation of antitrust compliance programs audits and training materials; and

    • Support select competition matters including supply chain benchmarking and R&D.

  • Global Law

    • Support enterprise wellbeing legal matters including legal support for the companys wellbeing strategy disclosures and claims.

    • Legal analysis and advice to support enterprise AI programs including AI policies and procedures and evaluating proposed AI use cases.

    • Support for global marketing and media priorities including brand equity initiatives and influencer engagements.

Required Qualifications

  • 5 years experience as a licensed attorney practicing substantive antitrust law in the US and/or EU including HSR/EC merger filing processes.

  • JD from an US accredited law school and license to practice law in at least one US jurisdiction; ability to be licensed as inhouse counsel in Illinois or NJ.

  • Experience with multijurisdictional analysis and filings merger clearance investigations and Second Requests.

  • Substantial business judgment with a capacity to make decisions and give advice in a riskcalibrated manner demonstrating an understanding of overall business objectives and the risks/rewards of each situation.

  • Strong work ethic excellent writing skills and a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a nonlegal audience including business leaders and functional partners in Corporate Development Tax Accounting Finance HR IT Compliance and Treasury.

  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to collaborate with others and manage multiple time sensitive matters in a demanding fastpaced and matrixed environment.

  • High degree of initiative selfdirection and ability to work both independently and collaboratively within an international team and crossfunctional environment.

  • AMLaw 100 Magic Circle or equivalent law firm experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous inhouse employment as a global competition and/or merger control lawyer with a multinational corporate legal department.

  • Current or past employment with FTC DOJ or European Commission.

  • Litigation experience including designing strategies managing discovery and conducting and defending depositions.

  • Intellectual curiosity and high learning agility with an interest in growing skills experience and expertise with global antitrust as well as in new areas of law such health and wellbeing AI supply chain marketing and licensing.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and advise others through complex situations in a demanding environment.

  • Ability to oversee and effectively manage external counsel.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here we produce our wellloved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack at the right moment made the right way. We have corporate offices sales manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brandsincluding Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies Ritz Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products are close at hand for our consumers across the country.

Mondelz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected Veteran status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contactfor assistance.

For more information about your Federal rights please see; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

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