Westlake · 8 hours ago
Sr. Counsel - Commercial
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expWestlake is seeking a Senior Counsel to join their commercial legal team. This role involves reviewing, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial and M&A contracts, providing legal counsel to various departments, and managing outside counsel while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
ChemicalManufacturingMedical
Responsibilities
Reviews, drafts and negotiates complex commercial contracts and ancillary agreements, including product sales contracts, purchasing contracts, non-disclosure agreements, consulting agreements, master services agreements, declarations of force majeure and other third-party vendor agreements
Supports product liability issues such as warranty claims and resulting dispute resolution
Reviews, drafts and negotiates complex M&A contract and ancillary agreements, including, plan of merger agreements, binding and non-binding bids, confidential information memorandums, anti-trust filings, and closing contracts
Advise assigned client groups as to when litigation is appropriate and lead litigation efforts, through external counsel
Builds and maintains strong partnerships with the business, manufacturing, other company departments and company management
Provides counsel on commercial matters, legal rights and obligations under contracts, customer disputes and related laws and regulations to ensure legal and business needs are aligned
Analyzes risks and strategic opportunities from a legal perspective for the assigned client group with a view toward creating practical long-term solutions
Reviews advertising and marketing materials to ensure compliance with legal requirements (e.g., Green Guides) and company policies
Develops and provides training to company personnel on substantive legal topics including commercial and antitrust matters
Improves standard form agreements and legal processes, as necessary
Manages outside counsel as necessary in a budget-minded manner
Qualification
Required
Juris Doctor degree and licensed, as a member in good standing, to practice law in Texas, or otherwise eligible to practice as an in-house corporate attorney
Strong academic credentials from a top-rated accredited law school
Minimum of 10 years of experience, preferably with major law firm and in-house corporate experience, handling a variety of complex commercial and M&A matters with a focus on commercial transactions, corporate, antitrust and general business law
Strong writing and verbal skills
Strong business acumen with an ability to balance legal and business requirements
Company
Westlake
Westlake is a manufacturer and supplier of petrochemicals, polymers and building products. It is a sub-organization of Westlake Chemical Partners.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.2B2025-11-04Post Ipo Debt· $1.2B
2017-01-07Post Ipo Equity
2004-08-11IPO
Leadership Team
Albert Chao
Chief Executive Officer
Jean-Marc Gilson
President and CEO
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