Markel · 2 days ago
Assistant General Counsel, Markel Group
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expMarkel Group is a Fortune 500 company that operates a family of 24 companies and is seeking a seasoned attorney to join their legal team. The role involves providing legal support to various operating companies, translating complex legal concepts into actionable advice, and managing sophisticated transactions while ensuring compliance with public-company standards.
Insurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
Serve as a go-to legal contact for a family of operating companies that function autonomously within a public-company framework. You’ll 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 categorization—and 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 forward—even when the work goes beyond pure legal analysis
Build scalable templates, playbooks, and systems that make the legal function smarter and faster
Qualification
Required
A J.D
An active law license
8-10 years of solid legal experience
Strong working knowledge of corporate law, employment, and compliance
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
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
US Work Authorization required
Preferred
Demonstrated M&A expertise preferred
Experience with employment law matters is preferred
Mix of firm and in-house preferred
Benefits
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.
Company
Markel
As the insurance operations within the Markel Group Inc.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Michael Keimig
President & Chief Executive Officer - Markel Surety Corporation
Richard Whitt
Retired, Co-chief Executive Officer
Recent News
2025-05-28
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