Legal Counsel - Commercial

Legal Counsel – Commercial   General Information   Location: Dublin (Hybrid) Business Area: CBS Legal Contract Type: Maternity leave starting October 2026     Who are we? EY is a global leader in Assurance, Tax, Transaction and Advisory services. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential. Our vision is to become the leading global professional services organisation by building a better working world.   At EY our inclusive work environment means that everyone’s opinion is valued. This enables us to provide better advice and ideas to our clients, which in turn helps you develop as an individual to achieve your potential and make a difference.   The EY Ireland Legal team is well established and highly regarded within EY. The Irish team is headed by the firm's General Counsel and forms part of a wider Legal or GCO (General Counsel’s Office) group in UK and Ireland and the Global legal function. The team is situated at the Head Office of the firm at Wilton Terrace, Dublin.  EY Legal team enjoy a varied and challenging workload and is responsible for providing legal advice and guidance across EY’s business in Ireland.   About the Position   We are looking for a Commercial Legal Counsel to join our high performing and ambitious in-house legal team as a FTE for maternity cover.  Our team benefits from a diverse and challenging workload supporting those at all levels within our business teams with pragmatic, adaptable, solution-orientated and commercial legal advice.     Your key responsibilities:   The work within the EY Ireland Legal team is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from the running of a professional services business.  Much of the legal work is at the cutting edge of business practice as the firm constantly finds innovative ways to help our clients’ businesses.   Commercial:

Advising on, drafting and negotiating client contracts, such as engagement agreements Master Services Agreements and Global Framework Agreements with our clients as well as other complex contractual arrangements pursuant to which we provide an ever more diverse range of services Technology, Software and Licensing agreements Advising on intellectual property matters Subcontracts, where EY is subcontractor Collaboration agreements Managed services and outsourcing agreements Government and public sector agreements Advising on tenders and RFP responses Advising on, drafting and negotiating contracts with suppliers

Advising on data privacy, AI, DORA and regulatory matters.

Providing legal advice to the firm’s service lines and its other internal support functions such as real estate and facilities, procurement, finance, HR, IT, knowledge and marketing, providing training and guidance to service line colleagues on legal and contractual issues, developing contract templates, policies and guidance and the opportunity to be the legal lead on firm-wide projects.

What we look for:   The successful candidate will have:

An excellent academic record. Strong team player with excellent negotiation and communication skills. Enthusiastic and positive attitude. A self-starter, adept at responding promptly/juggling deadlines who actively looks to build relationships based on trust and confidence. Demonstrable commitment to the attributes of our highest performing teams – focus on results, accepts accountability, committed, embraces healthy conflict, builds trust. Keeps calm and copes well with conflicting and ever-changing deadlines. Ability to lead, provide a view, take responsibility and ownership of issues, including an ability to take difficult decisions and provide substantiated arguments. Commercial awareness of the business issues facing us as we evolve, coupled with an active desire to get alongside our business, scanning the horizon for new