The Senior Legal Counsel will draft and negotiate commercial contracts, provide legal advice, supervise junior team members, and improve efficiencies in a fast-paced legal environment.
Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on-site in London, Tower Bridge HQ
10 months FTC plus option for an additional 2 months
We are looking for a confident and experienced commercial / technology lawyer to join our Legal Regulatory and Compliance team on a fixed term maternity cover contract to advise on a varied and interesting mix of commercial contracts, technology, intellectual property and data protection across all group businesses.
This is a fantastic opportunity if you’re looking to join an innovative, fast-paced and supportive legal team which sits at the heart of the business.
Key responsibilities
Drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including:
- Data licences with mortgage lenders
- Services agreements with customers and suppliers
- Product development agreements
- Outsourcing agreements
- Providing general legal advice and support to our various business divisions on day-to-day commercial and legal issues including company secretarial duties
- Proactively working on ways to improve efficiencies for the legal and compliance team including developing standard documents and playbooks
- Liaising with our investor representatives
- Supporting the General Counsel in instructing and managing external legal counsel
- Managing workloads and priorities within the legal team, and supervising junior members of the team
Essential skills
- Results driven; having a proactive, goal-orientated and commercial approach to decision making
- Experience obtained in a top-tier firm or in-house team
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales
- Proven technical ability to draft complex commercial agreements to tight time-scales
- Data protection experience a plus but not essential
- Company secretarial experience a plus but not essential
- Excellent communication skills - able to deliver legal advice in a clear, concise and appropriate style
- Ability to work autonomously with all levels of the business
- Meticulous attention to detail, combined with a commercial awareness and common sense
- Ability to grasp new legal concepts quickly
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- Ability to adapt to change and to work in a fast-paced commercial environment
- Proven ability to supervise legal trainees and junior lawyers
- Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
- Festive Closure - business closed for a period between Christmas and New Year
- Cycle to work and electric car schemes
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K
Houseful London, England Office
The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2LH
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