{"data":{"id":216594,"slug":"legal-counsel-to-company-in-southern-sweden-2","type":"job","title":"Legal Counsel to Company in Southern Sweden","description":"About the Company\nYou will be provided with more information regarding the company during the recruitment process.\nAsta Agency is partnering with the company in this recruitment process. The recruitment is managed by Asta Agency, and you will be employed by Asta Agency \u2013 with the possibility of being directly recruited by the company over time.\nAbout the Role\nAs Legal Counsel, you will be the legal anchor for the entire Group, the person who holds the threads together across commercial, corporate, capital-markets and regulatory matters. Reporting directly to the Group CEO, this is a broad and genuinely independent role with real autonomy to shape the legal function from the ground up. You will engage and coordinate a network of external advisers, including patent portfolio agents, legal counsel and the company's certified adviser, acting as the internal hub through which all external legal relationships are channelled and directed. Day to day, you will draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts, oversee capital-markets compliance and disclosure obligations, and support the ongoing corporate transformation alongside the CEO, Managing Directors and the board. With operations spanning two countries and a listed environment with both equity and debt instruments in play, the legal agenda is varied, consequential and genuinely yours to own.\nKey responsibilities include:\n\nSupporting the board with meeting preparation and acting as keeper of minutes.\n\n\nManaging corporate governance and company-law matters across the Group.\n\n\nOverseeing capital-markets compliance, insider logs, press releases and Nasdaq regulatory requirements.\n\n\nManaging IP matters including applications, renewals and licensing agreements across jurisdictions.\n\n\nSupporting management on GMP compliance, manufacturing authorisations and engagement with regulatory authorities such as the Swedish Medical Products Agency and EMA.\n\n\nDrafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, research agreements, clinical trial agreements and NDAs.\n\n\nBuilding and maintaining a contract management framework, including a standard template library and contract register.\n\n\nEnsuring Group-wide compliance with data protection legislation.\n\nQualifications and Personal Attributes\nYou are a commercially minded, structured and self-driven lawyer who thrives in an environment where no days look the same, and where your judgment and initiative genuinely matter. You are comfortable managing complexity across multiple disciplines, and you bring both the legal rigor and the interpersonal confidence to serve as the go-to person for all things legal across a listed group. You communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, know when to escalate and when to act, and take real ownership of your agenda.\nIn addition, you have:\n\nA law degree and qualification as an attorney or equivalent.\n\n\n5\u20138 years of post-qualification experience, ideally from a combination of private practice and in-house.\n\n\nSolid experience across commercial contracts, corporate governance and capital-markets or listed-company compliance.\n\n\nExperience coordinating or managing external legal advisers.\n\n\nFluency in English and Swedish; Danish is a strong advantage.\n\n\nMeritorious experience:\n\nBackground in the pharmaceutical, life sciences or regulated manufacturing sector.\n\n\nFamiliarity with Nasdaq First North rules and disclosure obligations.\n\n\nExperience with IP management and licensing.\n\n\nKnowledge of GMP regulatory frameworks or pharmaceutical regulatory compliance.\n\nAdditional Information\nStart: As soon as possible \u2013 according to agreement.\n\n\nLocation: Malm\u00f6, with occasional travel to Denmark.\n\n\nScope: Full-time.\n\n\nSalary: By agreement.\n\n\nWe review applications on an ongoing basis and will continuously provide updates throughout the recruitment process.\nIf you have any questions regarding Asta Agency's recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us at ellen@astaagency.se.\nAbout Asta Agency\nAsta Agency is a recruitment and staffing company helping businesses across Sweden find the right professionals, with a primary focus on Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malm\u00f6.\nWe recruit and provide consultants within sales, marketing, HR, customer service, finance, administration, IT, and tech \u2013 both specialists and generalists. With a strong focus on quality, long-term partnerships, and smart solutions, we support both companies and candidates in taking the next step.\nLearn more about how we work with recruitment, staffing, and temp-to-perm solutions at astaagency.se.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Legal Counsel to company in Southern Sweden","description_original":"About the Company\nYou will be proivided with more information regarding the company during the recruitment process.\nAsta Agency is partnering with the company in this recruitment process. The recruitment is managed by Asta Agency, and you will be employed by Asta Agency \u2013 with the possibility of being directly recruited by the company over time.\nAbout the role\nAs Legal Counsel, you will be the legal anchor for the entire Group, the person who holds the threads together across commercial, corporate, capital-markets and regulatory matters. Reporting directly to the Group CEO, this is a broad and genuinely independent role with real autonomy to shape the legal function from the ground up. You will engage and coordinate a network of external advisers, including patent portfolio agents, legal counsel and the company's certified adviser, acting as the internal hub through which all external legal relationships are channelled and directed. Day to day, you will draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts, oversee capital-markets compliance and disclosure obligations, and support the ongoing corporate transformation alongside the CEO, Managing Directors and the board. With operations spanning two countries and a listed environment with both equity and debt instruments in play, the legal agenda is varied, consequential and genuinely yours to own.\nKey responsibilities include:\n\nSupporting the board with meeting preparation and acting as keeper of minutes.\n\n\nManaging corporate governance and company-law matters across the Group.\n\n\nOverseeing capital-markets compliance, insider logs, press releases and Nasdaq regulatory requirements.\n\n\nManaging IP matters including applications, renewals and licensing agreements across jurisdictions.\n\n\nSupporting management on GMP compliance, manufacturing authorisations and engagement with regulatory authorities such as the Swedish Medical Products Agency and EMA.\n\n\nDrafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, research agreements, clinical trial agreements and NDAs.\n\n\nBuilding and maintaining a contract management framework, including a standard template library and contract register.\n\n\nEnsuring Group-wide compliance with data protection legislation.\n\nQualifications and personal attributes\nYou are a commercially minded, structured and self-driven lawyer who thrives in an environment where no days look the same, and where your judgement and initiative genuinely matter. You are comfortable managing complexity across multiple disciplines, and you bring both the legal rigour and the interpersonal confidence to serve as the go-to person for all things legal across a listed group. You communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, know when to escalate and when to act, and take real ownership of your agenda.\nIn addition, you have:\n\nA law degree and qualification as an attorney or equivalent.\n\n\n5\u20138 years of post-qualification experience, ideally from a combination of private practice and in-house.\n\n\nSolid experience across commercial contracts, corporate governance and capital-markets or listed-company compliance.\n\n\nExperience coordinating or managing external legal advisers.\n\n\nFluency in English and Swedish; Danish is a strong advantage.\n\n\nMeritorious experience:\n\nBackground in the pharmaceutical, life sciences or regulated manufacturing sector.\n\n\nFamiliarity with Nasdaq First North rules and disclosure obligations.\n\n\nExperience with IP management and licensing.\n\n\nKnowledge of GMP regulatory frameworks or pharmaceutical regulatory compliance.\n\nAdditional information\nStart: As soon as possible - according to agreement.\n\n\nLocation: Malm\u00f6, with occasional travel to Denmark.\n\n\nScope: Full-time.\n\n\nSalary: By agreement.\n\n\nWe review applications on an ongoing basis and will continuously provide updates throughout the recruitment process.\nIf you have any questions regarding Asta Agency\u2019s recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us at ellen@astaagency.se.\nAbout Asta Agency\nAsta Agency is a recruitment and staffing company helping businesses across Sweden find the right professionals, with a primary focus on Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malm\u00f6.\nWe recruit and provide consultants within sales, marketing, HR, customer service, finance, administration, IT, and tech \u2013 both specialists and generalists. With a strong focus on quality, long-term partnerships, and smart solutions, we support both companies and candidates in taking the next step.\nLearn more about how we work with recruitment, staffing, and temp-to-perm solutions at astaagency.se.","price":null,"currency":"SEK","status":"active","noindex":true,"location":{"address":"Malm\u00f6 Central Station","full_address":null,"city":"Malm\u00f6","country":"SE","latitude":55.612955889858,"longitude":13.008721911577},"metadata":{"region":"Sk\u00e5ne l\u00e4n","duration":"Tills vidare","employer":"Asta Agency AB","postcode":"21120","positions":1,"profession":"Bolagsjurist","salary_type":"Fast m\u00e5nads- vecko- eller timl\u00f6n","employer_url":"https:\/\/jobs.astaagency.se","scope_of_work":"100\u2013100 %","working_hours":"Heltid","employment_type":"full_time","occupation_field":"Administration, ekonomi, juridik","employer_workplace":"Asta Agency","experience_required":true,"employment_type_label":"Vanlig anst\u00e4llning"},"user_id":null,"is_sponsored":false,"views_count":0,"ai_views_count":2,"bot_views_count":2,"ai_vendor_counts":{"openai":1,"anthropic":1},"visibility":"public","submission_source":null,"submission_ai_name":null,"has_owner_email":true,"can_contact_owner":true,"phone":null,"owner_email":"ellen@astaagency.se","images":[],"published_at":"2026-09-16T17:12:33+00:00","expires_at":"2027-03-15T23:59:59+00:00","created_at":"2026-09-17T03:58:14+00:00","updated_at":"2026-09-19T03:15:32+00:00"}}