Corporate Counsel

Title: Corporate Counsel

Compensation Range: $125, 000 - 145,000

Location: Louisville, KY

Your Recipe For Impact

• Transactional Support: Provide end-to-end legal support for franchise-to-franchise transactions and franchise business ownership changes, ensuring compliance with all legal requirements and minimizing risk.
• Risk Manager: Analyze transactions, identify and resolve legal risks, escalating complex issues to the Director of Legal as necessary.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business leads in finance, operations, and development to ensure timely and effective decision-making for proposed transactions.
• Team Leader: Manage a paralegal focused on franchise matters, guiding them through complex issues and elevating concerns to senior legal leadership as needed.
• Process Improvement: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to streamline and enhance franchise transfer processes.
• Franchise Disclosure Expertise: Prepare and update KFC’s annual Franchise Disclosure Documents, ensuring compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
• M&A Legal Support: Provide comprehensive legal support for corporate M&A processes, from drafting and negotiating legal documentation to advising on the legal implications of business objectives.
• Real Estate Legal Support: Manage legal aspects of real estate matters, including drafting, negotiating, and analyzing ground leases, real estate purchase contracts, and related agreements.
• Contracting Process Management: Oversee the legal contracting process for construction contracts and letters of intent, providing legal support to business partners during negotiations.
• Franchise Process Execution: Ensure proper execution of legal franchise processes related to corporate development where applicable.
• Legal Documentation: Draft, negotiate, and analyze bid materials, purchase and sale agreements, leases, financing documents, and other transactional documents related to restaurant assets.
• Strategic Advisor: Provide practical, strategic legal advice to business partners in finance, operations, and development to mitigate legal risks while driving business success.
• External Counsel Coordination: Manage and coordinate work assigned to outside counsel.
  
  
  

What You’ll Serve Up

• Legal Expertise: Use your knowledge and experience to provide sound legal guidance that aligns with KFC’s business goals.
• Collaborative Spirit: Work closely with various teams across the organization to ensure legal processes are seamlessly integrated into business operations.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Apply your legal acumen to navigate complex legal challenges and propose innovative solutions.
• Detail-Oriented Focus: Maintain a sharp eye for detail in all legal documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Leadership: Lead and mentor a paralegal, fostering a collaborative and high-performing legal team.
  
  
  

What’s in It for You?

• Join an Iconic Brand: Be part of a globally recognized company with a rich history and a bright future.
• Growth Opportunities: Take your career to the next level with professional development and career advancement opportunities.
• Collaborative Environment: Work in a team-oriented culture that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Impactful Role: Play a crucial part in driving KFC’s legal strategy and ensuring the brand’s continued success.
  
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Educational Background: Juris Doctor Degree from an ABA-accredited law school; licensed to practice law in any U.S. state.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced law firm or corporate environment, with a solid background in commercial contracting and corporate transactional work.
• Client-Facing Skills: Strong background in client counseling or other client-facing engagements, with the ability to build relationships and influence others.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to provide practical, strategic legal advice that aligns with business objectives.
• Self-Starter: Capable of working efficiently and independently, while also collaborating effectively with colleagues across the organization.
• Detail and Results-Oriented: Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills with a focus on delivering results.
• Interpersonal Skills: Proficiency on cross-functional teams, with the ability to build credibility and trust across the organization.
• Adaptability: Ability to prioritize and perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, managing changing priorities with ease.
• Integrity: High personal and professional integrity, with the ability to establish personal credibility and trust across the organization.
  
  
  

Ready to lead the legal charge at KFC? Apply today and let’s get cookin’!

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KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation. In fact, KFC is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain and a division of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company.

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. In 2018, Yum! Brands was recognized as part of the inaugural Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories.

More important than our size is our commitment to breakthrough innovation and the success of our employees. We're proud of the unique culture we've built, one where everyone can be their best self, make a difference and have fun! We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, encourage ideas from everyone, and have actively developed a workforce that is diverse in style and background.