Assistant General Counsel, Markel Group

Richmond, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What part will you play If youre looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference youve found it.

Markel Group a Fortune 500 company is a growing family of 24 operating companies. It is supported by over 22000 associates and generates more than $15 billion in annual revenue with our insurance operations at the core. Our small holding company team sits under and supports these businesses insuring they focus on serving their customers over the long term. Our mission is to be the best home for our businesses while at the same time living the values that we call the Markel Style. We aspire to build one of the worlds great companies by creating win-win-win outcomes for our customers associates and shareholders. Our legal team sits at the intersection of strategy and execution helping the organization stay nimble compliant and smart as it scales and were looking to add a sharp and seasoned attorney to the team. If you value teamwork enjoy translating complexity into clarity and want to make a meaningful impact beyond pure legal analysis this is the role for you.

About You

You are a respected admired and sought-after attorney with 8-10 years of lawyering experience. Importantly you are someone who:

Thrives on variety.
Finds joy in solving challenges that are equal parts technically demanding and highly nuanced.
Is comfortable analyzing complex multi-faceted legal questions and exercising sound judgment.
Navigates the space between legal risk and business objectives with creativity rigor and calm.
Understands that people partners leaders teams stakeholdersare core to all we do.
Brings collaborative grit checks ego at the door values collective success and loves being part of a team.
Maintains perspective and a sense of humor (because lawyering without laughter is just stress).

What Youll Do

Serve as a go-to legal contact for a family of operating companies that function autonomously within a public-company framework. Youll need to balance autonomy and oversight supporting entrepreneurial decision-making while ensuring public-company standards SEC compliance and ethical governance.
Translate complex legal and regulatory concepts into actionable plain-English advice for business leaders.
Roll up your sleeves to address compliance governance and risk issues that resist easy categorizationand design and implement systems and frameworks to manage them.
Manage sophisticated transactions including M&A restructurings and joint ventures from early structuring and due diligence through execution and integration.
Advise on a wide range of corporate regulatory and employment matters --including entity formation governance intercompany agreements employment compensation and incentive arrangements complaints and investigations and new laws and regulations-- with precision and strategic insight.
Bring a solutions-oriented mindset to the organization offering insight making things work better and helping teams move forwardeven when the work goes beyond pure legal analysis.
Build scalable templates playbooks and systems that make the legal function smarter and faster.

What You Bring

A J.D. an active law license and 8-10 years of solid legal experience (mix of firm and in-house preferred).
Strong working knowledge of corporate law employment and compliance and the technical skill to manage legal issues across complex corporate structures including multi-entity and cross-border environments.
Experience supporting a public company or advising public-company clients ideally including exposure to SEC reporting governance and disclosure matters.
Demonstrated M&A expertise preferred. If youve closed a deal or three and/or handled the integration that followed youll hit the ground running. Likewise experience with employment law matters is preferred.
The ability to interpret financial information and connect it to legal risk and strategic decision-making.
Comfort using modern legal tools and technology to streamline complexity.
Curiosity resilience and sound judgment that thrives in a dynamic evolving environment.

Why Youll Love It Here

This isnt a stay-in-your-lane role. Youll work across industries collaborate with extraordinary leaders and have real influence in shaping how business and law interact across our group. If you like order but live for variety and want the opportunity to shape outcomes rather than simply advise wed love to meet you.

US Work Authorization

US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries is a holding company for insurance reinsurance specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

Were all about people We win together We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday We think further

Whats in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees needs at all stages of life.

All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life disability and AD&D insurance.

We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions an Employee Stock Purchase Plan PTO corporate holidays and floating holidays parental leave.

Are you ready to play your part

Choose Apply Now to fill out our short application so that we can find out more about you.

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Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information sickle cell trait or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions; marital status civil union status domestic partnership status familial status or family responsibilities; military or veteran status including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance height or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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Required Experience:

Junior IC

What part will you play If youre looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference youve found it.Markel Group a Fortune 500 company is a growing family of 24 operating companies. It is supported by over 22000 associates and generates more than $15 billion in annual revenue with our ins...