Senior Counsel - Americas

Job Title Senior Counsel - Americas Job Description Summary The Senior Counsel serves as a key legal partner to Cushman & Wakefield businesses, providing embedded, realu2011time support in a fastu2011paced, dealu2011driven environment. As a central legal point of accountability, this attorney brings sharp commercial judgment and the ability to assess risk quickly, frame options, and guide senior leaders through complex commercial, operational, regulatory, and talentu2011related matters - ensuring clear, wellu2011framed decisions across risku2011sensitive areas. This role requires an attorney with strong strategic judgment who can operate with agility in a transactionu2011 and advisoryu2011intensive, clientu2011facing environment. Expertise in the commercial, risk, and financial dynamics of brokerage, capital markets, valuation, or similar transactionu2011driven service lines is essential, along with the ability to anticipate how legal, regulatory, and market changes influence fastu2011moving deal structures. The Senior Counsel leads highu2011value advisory work and complex commercial matters across multiple service lines, including MSAs, integrated multiu2011service engagements, and other crossu2011functional structures that drive meaningful business outcomes. This is not a role for an attorney whose experience centers on routine form agreements. The ideal candidate is a commercially sophisticated attorney and innovative thinker; agile, forwardu2011looking, and effective working through ambiguity. A direct, businessu2011focused communication style is necessary to proactively streamline and modernize legal support while leveraging evolving technology and AI to enhance speed, consistency, and impact. Close partnership with Litigation, HR, Compliance, and the Contracting Center of Excellence is critical to ensuring coordinated, highu2011quality, businessu2011aligned guidance across the organization. Job Description Key Responsibilities + Business Partnership & Leadership. Serve as a key legal advisor to Cushman & Wakefield businesses, bringing sharp commercial judgment, innovative thinking, and a proactive, businessu2011aligned approach to problemu2011solving. Build trusted relationships across the business and deliver clear, practical guidance in direct business terms. + Commercial & Advisory. Lead sophisticated commercial matters under timeu2011sensitive deadlines, including MSAs and other integrated engagement structures. Provide practical guidance on commercial terms, risk dynamics, and marketu2011facing considerations while enhancing efficiency and consistency in contracting. + Labor & Employment . Provide timely, businessu2011aligned guidance on a broad range of labor and employment matters across all worker classifications, including employees, independent contractors, and brokerage professionals. Advise on transitions, performance and conduct issues, restrictive covenants, investigations, accommodations, and separations, ensuring leaders receive clear, actionable support in a fastu2011moving environment. Partner closely with HR and other stakeholders to navigate sensitive and highu2011risk people issues with judgment and precision. + Disputes, Risk & Litigation. Anticipate emerging risks and provide forwardu2011looking guidance across commercial, operational, regulatory, and talentu2011related issues. Frame key considerations for leadership and collaborate with Litigation and Compliance to ensure coordinated, practical risk management. + Training & Continuous Improvement . Develop and deliver targeted training that translates complex legal and risk concepts into clear, actionable guidance. Advance opportunities to improve clarity, strengthen contracting processes, and enhance crossu2011functional alignment in partnership with the Contracting Center of Excellence. Qualifications + Juris Doctor and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. + 8+ years of legal experience with substantial responsibility for complex commercial contracting and advisory work, including at least 3 years of law firm experience demonstrating strong analytical rigor, highu2011quality drafting, and sophisticated clientu2011facing skills. + Demonstrated experience advising senior business and operational leaders on complex commercial, operational, financial, and risk issues, with the ability to deliver clear, practical, businessu2011aligned recommendations and build trust across crossu2011functional partners. + Experience supporting brokerage, capital markets, valuation, or other transactionu2011driven service lines, or comparable experience advising fastu2011paced commercial businesses with complex deal, risk, and financial dynamics. Must bring strong commercial judgment, the ability to quickly understand new business models, and the capacity to navigate issues with speed, clarity, and precision. + Demonstrated judgment and independence in managing multiple complex, timeu2011sensitive priorities in a highu2011velocity environment. + Experience providing businessu2011facing labor and employment guidance across a range of worker classifications, including employees, independent contractors, and brokerage professionals. + Excellent communicator capable of distilling complex issues into concise, actionable guidance for senior leadership. + Executive presence with the ability to influence leaders and drive clarity across competing priorities. + Demonstrated ability and drive to lead with innovation - leveraging technology, AI, and other forwardu2011thinking approaches to enhance the speed, quality, and consistency of legal support. Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements. The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidateu2019s experience and qualifications. The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role. The compensation for the position is: $ 161,670.00 - $190,200.00 Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email . Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us. INCO: u201cCushman & Wakefieldu201d

Created: 2026-04-27