Legal Counsel

Opportunity: Commercial Legal Counsel at a globally-oriented organisation with operations across the UK, EMEA, and the US. The role encompasses a wide range of legal responsibilities, with a primary focus on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts of varying complexity. In addition to contractual work, the position involves providing legal support on cross-border projects and addressing diverse legal matters in a fast-paced international business environment.

The successful candidate will assume responsibility for a broad range of legal work, with a particular emphasis on drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts of varying scale and complexity. Given that this role is largely commercial in nature, experience in commercial and corporate matters is essential.

Business-as-usual work will include being the main point of contact for the business on the negotiation and amendment of client contracts, as well ad hoc legal queries on existing and anticipated contractual relationships. The role supports the business across a region covering UK, EMEA and the US.

Although there is emphasis on contractual work, additional project work can be expected, which may involve (for example) the setting up of new entities in different territories and other international work, various regulatory and licencing matters, legal research, corporate governance, handling litigation pre-action (and beyond, if required), employment matters, advising on data protection, reviewing technology contracts and delivering training to the business on relevant legal developments.

This is a real opportunity for a junior-mid level lawyer with commercial and corporate law experience to get exposure to significant commercial transactions with the support necessary to develop and hone their skills. It is also an exciting chance to get involved with a dynamic recruitment business with a global presence and work in a fast-paced environment. If you have a particular passion for a certain area of law then you will, where possible, be encouraged to develop this further.

Desired Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will:

• be a qualified lawyer with 2 to 4 years of PQE, most of which has been gained in an in-house environment or at a recognised law firm or relevant corporate environment in commercial law

• have a minimum of 2 years' experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of general commercial contracts and and can provide clear, commercial and practical advice to business leaders regarding the full range of commercial matters and projects

• have the ability to frequently field queries from the business, who have varying degrees of understanding of legal process/terminology, and deliver robust yet clear commercial advice to a diverse group of individuals, with confidence

• proactively build effective relationships with multi-jurisdictional legal colleagues and the wider group businesses, including senior stakeholders

• demonstrate interest to work in a demanding environment with challenging stakeholders and a keen interest to broaden ones knowledge and cross-border experience.

* Reference to PQE is a guide and does not preclude applications from candidates with more experience.