Senior Legal Counsel/Legal Counsel
Michael Page
- London
- £60,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Advising the Group functions on a wide range of domestic and international commercial matters including Procurement, Research and Development, IT, Tax, Treasury, Finance, HR, Corporate Communications, Group Risk and Assurance and Security.
- Drafting and negotiating a variety of legal documents and commercial contracts. This ranges from standard terms to bespoke agreements.
- Advising on corporate transactions as required, including M&A, TSAs, divestments etc.
- Tracking emerging technologies and advising on legal implications, for example, AI systems, machine learning, open source software etc.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure that appropriate risk management procedures are in place to cover contractual and compliance risk management.
- Identify key risks such as data protection, intellectual property, TUPE and IR35 (or equivalent local laws), high risk jurisdictions, sanctions etc.
- Provide legal and compliance training (Financial Crime, Data Protection, Competition and Sanctions).
- Create templates, play books, guardrails for day to day queries from Group functions in order to standardise and simplify.
- Managing dispute and negotiation of dispute settlements / litigation management.
- Managing specialist legal services provided by external firms, such as non-UK advice on corporate, commercial, litigation, employment, tax, IP, property and environmental law, settling budgets for advice presented by these firms and managing that legal spend.
- Supporting the development of the more junior colleagues.
- Qualified Lawyer with significant experience advising on corporate and commercial contractual matters.
- Previous in-house experience is preferred however not essential.
- Have worked in an international environment & advising the business outside jurisdiction of qualification.
- Experience dealing with Compliance matters is advantageous.
- Exposure to data protection, technology, telecommunications, utilities and intellectual property contractual matters.
- Experience managing disputes and competition law is desirable.
- Experience of working with multiple internal stakeholders simultaneously.
- Holds a current UK practising certificate.