Apprenticeship-Legal Assistant

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

YOUR MISSIONS

You support the Deputy Corporate Legal Director and his team in their daily tasks, particularly in corporate law. You manage the legal follow-up of the group's 1200 subsidiaries, are involved in internal restructuring operations, capital operations, and the integration of company acquisitions.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

1. Support to the Corporate Team:
   • You assist in the follow-up of the social life of the Group's French and foreign subsidiaries.
   • You support the lawyers in various legal tasks, both in France and abroad, on ordinary and extraordinary operations.
   • You participate in various intra-group operations (debt assignments, shareholder loans, intra-group reorganizations, share transfers).
2. Advice and Governance Optimization:
   • You assist the lawyers in their advisory role to managers and operational staff to optimize the governance of the group's subsidiaries.
   • You are responsible for updating the group's corporate legal database, Légisway.
3. Legal Research and Monitoring:
   • You conduct legal research and write monthly newsletters.
   • You are responsible for legal monitoring in corporate law and litigation.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• You are currently pursuing a Master’s degree (Master 2) in Law / Legal Studies, ideally with a specialization in corporate law.
• You are proficient in legal databases (Légisway), Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Your English is fluent (reading, writing, and communicating with English-speaking colleagues).
• Ideally, you also speak Spanish.
• You are rigorous, organized, have good oral skills, writing skills, a capacity for synthesis, and a team spirit.

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