Senior Counsel Americas

Job Title

Senior Counsel - Americas

Job Description Summary

The Senior Counsel serves as a key legal partner to Cushman & Wakefield businesses providing embedded realtime support in a fastpaced dealdriven environment. As a central legal point of accountability this attorney brings sharp commercial judgment and the ability to assess risk quickly frame options and guide senior leaders through complex commercial operational regulatory and talentrelated matters - ensuring clear wellframed decisions across risksensitive areas.



This role requires an attorney with strong strategic judgment who can operate with agility in a transaction and advisoryintensive clientfacing environment. Expertise in the commercial risk and financial dynamics of brokerage capital markets valuation or similar transactiondriven service lines is essential along with the ability to anticipate how legal regulatory and market changes influence fastmoving deal structures. The Senior Counsel leads highvalue advisory work and complex commercial matters across multiple service lines including MSAs integrated multiservice engagements and other crossfunctional structures that drive meaningful business outcomes. This is not a role for an attorney whose experience centers on routine form agreements.



The ideal candidate is a commercially sophisticated attorney and innovative thinker; agile forwardlooking and effective working through ambiguity. A direct businessfocused communication style is necessary to proactively streamline and modernize legal support while leveraging evolving technology and AI to enhance speed consistency and impact. Close partnership with Litigation HR Compliance and the Contracting Center of Excellence is critical to ensuring coordinated highquality businessaligned guidance across the organization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Business Partnership & Leadership. Serve as a key legal advisor to Cushman & Wakefield businesses bringing sharp commercial judgment innovative thinking and a proactive businessaligned approach to problemsolving. Build trusted relationships across the business and deliver clear practical guidance in direct business terms.

• Commercial & Advisory. Lead sophisticated commercial matters under timesensitive deadlines including MSAs and other integrated engagement structures. Provide practical guidance on commercial terms risk dynamics and marketfacing considerations while enhancing efficiency and consistency in contracting.

• Labor & Employment. Provide timely businessaligned guidance on a broad range of labor and employment matters across all worker classifications including employees independent contractors and brokerage professionals. Advise on transitions performance and conduct issues restrictive covenants investigations accommodations and separations ensuring leaders receive clear actionable support in a fastmoving environment. Partner closely with HR and other stakeholders to navigate sensitive and highrisk people issues with judgment and precision.

• Disputes Risk & Litigation. Anticipate emerging risks and provide forwardlooking guidance across commercial operational regulatory and talentrelated issues. Frame key considerations for leadership and collaborate with Litigation and Compliance to ensure coordinated practical risk management.

• Training & Continuous Improvement. Develop and deliver targeted training that translates complex legal and risk concepts into clear actionable guidance. Advance opportunities to improve clarity strengthen contracting processes and enhance crossfunctional alignment in partnership with the Contracting Center of Excellence.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• 8 years of legal experience with substantial responsibility for complex commercial contracting and advisory work including at least 3 years of law firm experience demonstrating strong analytical rigor highquality drafting and sophisticated clientfacing skills.

• Demonstrated experience advising senior business and operational leaders on complex commercial operational financial and risk issues with the ability to deliver clear practical businessaligned recommendations and build trust across crossfunctional partners.

• Experience supporting brokerage capital markets valuation or other transactiondriven service lines or comparable experience advising fastpaced commercial businesses with complex deal risk and financial dynamics. Must bring strong commercial judgment the ability to quickly understand new business models and the capacity to navigate issues with speed clarity and precision.

• Demonstrated judgment and independence in managing multiple complex timesensitive priorities in a highvelocity environment.

• Experience providing businessfacing labor and employment guidance across a range of worker classifications including employees independent contractors and brokerage professionals.

• Excellent communicator capable of distilling complex issues into concise actionable guidance for senior leadership.

• Executive presence with the ability to influence leaders and drive clarity across competing priorities.

• Demonstrated ability and drive to lead with innovation - leveraging technology AI and other forwardthinking approaches to enhance the speed quality and consistency of legal support.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health vision and dental insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and paid and unpaid time away from addition to a comprehensive benefits package Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire total hours worked job type business line and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement the geographic area in which the work will be performed market pay rates in that area and the candidates experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 161670.00 - $190200.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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INCO: Cushman & Wakefield