Legal Counsel to company in Southern Sweden
Asta Agency AB · Malmö · Tills vidare
Asta Agency is recruiting a **Legal Counsel** for a client company based in Malmö, with the position initially employed through Asta Agency on a **full-time** basis and offering the possibility of direct hire over time. Reporting directly to the Group CEO, the appointee will build and steer the legal function across a listed group operating in two countries. Duties include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts, research agreements, and non-disclosure agreements, managing corporate governance and board support, and overseeing capital-markets compliance under Nasdaq regulations. The role also entails managing IP portfolios, ensuring data protection compliance, coordinating external advisors, and supporting management with GMP compliance and regulatory engagement with bodies such as the Swedish Medical Products Agency and EMA. The position requires occasional travel to Denmark. Applicants must hold a **law degree and qualification as an attorney or equivalent**, alongside 5–8 years of post-qualification experience, ideally combining private practice and in-house roles. Candidates must possess solid experience in commercial contracting, corporate governance, capital-markets or listed-company compliance, and managing external counsel, combined with fluency in both Swedish and English. Knowledge of Danish is considered a strong advantage. Additional meritorious qualifications include a background in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or regulated manufacturing, familiarity with Nasdaq First North rules, IP licensing experience, and knowledge of GMP regulatory frameworks.
About the Company
You will be proivided with more information regarding the company during the recruitment process.
Asta 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 – with the possibility of being directly recruited by the company over time.
About the role
As 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.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the board with meeting preparation and acting as keeper of minutes.
- Managing corporate governance and company-law matters across the Group.
- Overseeing capital-markets compliance, insider logs, press releases and Nasdaq regulatory requirements.
- Managing IP matters including applications, renewals and licensing agreements across jurisdictions.
- Supporting management on GMP compliance, manufacturing authorisations and engagement with regulatory authorities such as the Swedish Medical Products Agency and EMA.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, research agreements, clinical trial agreements and NDAs.
- Building and maintaining a contract management framework, including a standard template library and contract register.
- Ensuring Group-wide compliance with data protection legislation.
Qualifications and personal attributes
You 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.
In addition, you have:
- A law degree and qualification as an attorney or equivalent.
- 5–8 years of post-qualification experience, ideally from a combination of private practice and in-house.
- Solid experience across commercial contracts, corporate governance and capital-markets or listed-company compliance.
- Experience coordinating or managing external legal advisers.
- Fluency in English and Swedish; Danish is a strong advantage.
Meritorious experience:
- Background in the pharmaceutical, life sciences or regulated manufacturing sector.
- Familiarity with Nasdaq First North rules and disclosure obligations.
- Experience with IP management and licensing.
- Knowledge of GMP regulatory frameworks or pharmaceutical regulatory compliance.
Additional information
- Start: As soon as possible - according to agreement.
- Location: Malmö, with occasional travel to Denmark.
- Scope: Full-time.
- Salary: By agreement.
We review applications on an ongoing basis and will continuously provide updates throughout the recruitment process.
If you have any questions regarding Asta Agency’s recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us at ellen@astaagency.se.
About Asta Agency
Asta Agency is a recruitment and staffing company helping businesses across Sweden find the right professionals, with a primary focus on Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
We recruit and provide consultants within sales, marketing, HR, customer service, finance, administration, IT, and tech – 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.
Learn more about how we work with recruitment, staffing, and temp-to-perm solutions at astaagency.se.