Senior Legal Counsel, Legal Practice (m/f/d)

Due to the growth in our portfolio, we are strengthening our Legal Practice in the AURELIUS Task Force in the UK and are therefore looking for a (Sr.) Legal Counsel

AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT, Finance, Tax and Legal.

Joining AURELIUS’ Legal Practice means stepping into a role where your expertise directly shapes outcomes and drives value creation across our portfolio. You’ll operate at the intersection of law, business, and transformation — not just advising from the sidelines, but actively contributing to the success of each investment from ideation through to realization. By combining strategic legal insight with hands-on problem solving, you’ll help navigate complex transactions and guide portfolio companies through pivotal change moments.

As part of a fast-growing private equity firm, you’ll experience dynamic career development and exposure to diverse industries and legal challenges, all within an entrepreneurial environment that values initiative and ownership.

Our work is intellectually challenging, business driven, exciting and fast-paced. We are looking for a hands-on, open-minded legal professional with a broad range of legal experience. Your role will involve a variety of general commercial and corporate advice including post-merger, restructuring, and litigation.

The internal Legal Practice as part of the AURELIUS Task Force works closely with investment, operations, and portfolio management teams along the investment life cycle, from Closing, to building and launching 100d- and transformation plans until Exit. The functional spectrum of the Legal Practice ranges from improving operational efficiency in legal processes, restructuring, coordinating legal workflows, resolving contentious matters, overseeing external counsel, supporting corporate governance, ensuring compliance with group standards and managing contract and document lifecycles.

What you’ll do

• Design and implementation of Core Transformation Models (CTM) and standards along the PE life cycle

• Design and implementation of future Target Operating Models

• Ongoing legal support for portfolio companies

• Elaboration of quick-check potential analysis post-acquisition

• Design and implement the corporate and governance structure

• Stakeholder management

• Project-based leadership of practice teams and teams in portfolio companies

• Establish group‑aligned legal policies and standards

• Build and maintain a contract-, standard legal clause-, and template library for efficient legal operations

• Support of Practice Partner in further practice development, incl. hiring, training and mentoring of team members

What you’ll need

• Fully qualified lawyer (or equivalent legal degree) with strong commercial and corporate law experience

• At least 5+ years relevant experience in corporate and commercial law, preferably as an inhouse-counsel, in another private equity company or in a reputed international law firm

• Experience in private equity, M&A, or supporting portfolio companies is a strong advantage

• Solid understanding of corporate governance, compliance, and contract management

• Ability to work independently across multiple stakeholders and jurisdictions in ambiguous situations while being able to contribute to cross-functional teams

• Strong project‑management skills and comfort working in fast‑paced, complex transactions

• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate legal concepts into operational guidance

• Proactive, solution‑oriented mindset with high attention to detail

• Analytical and strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork capabilities

• Sound and practical business judgment

• Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)