Top General Counsel Jobs in London

Leads Mastercard’s strategy for complex UK and European antitrust and commercial litigation, including class actions. Advises senior executives and boards on legal, financial, reputational, and business risks; manages external counsel, litigation budgets, teams, and a significant docket. Oversees e-discovery and litigation data governance while partnering with communications, investor relations, and executive leadership on external messaging and strategic matters.

Oversee Cloudflare’s global privacy and responsible AI compliance programs across EMEA. Advise on data protection laws, cross-border transfers, privacy by design, data subject requests, impact assessments, vendor reviews, data processing agreements, M&A due diligence, incidents, and AI regulations. Develop guidance, playbooks, and FAQs while partnering with product, commercial, corporate legal, and data privacy operations teams.

Provides legal counsel on EU, Member State, and UK sanctions laws, including complex transactions, licensing, disclosures, investigations, and regulatory developments. Enhances global sanctions policies, governance, screening, escalation, recordkeeping, and digital controls. Partners with business and functional teams, supports risk assessments and audits, leads regulatory engagement, delivers training, and advises senior leadership on sanctions risks and compliance obligations.

Provides legal advice on EU, Member State, and UK sanctions laws; advises on complex transactions, licensing, disclosures, investigations, and regulatory engagement. Enhances global sanctions policies, screening, governance, recordkeeping, and digital controls while partnering with business and functional teams. Leads risk assessments, audits, remediation, training, authority submissions, and senior leadership briefings on sanctions risks.

Provides broad in-house legal counsel across contracts, client engagement letters, vendor agreements, corporate governance, data privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and international operations. Advises business development and internal teams, supports regulatory examinations and submissions involving UK, EU, and US authorities, assists with registrations and regulatory research, and manages corporate agreements and governance documentation.

Provides legal advice on establishing, structuring, launching, and operating European investment funds and investor separate accounts. Drafts and negotiates fund documentation, manages external counsel, supports investor discussions, advises on regulatory and risk matters, and assists with distribution and marketing queries. Collaborates with Legal, Product Management, Investment Teams, and other business functions while improving team processes and handling complex legal issues.

Lead EMEA debt capital raising legal work, including acquisition, construction, securitization, leveraged, project, and real estate financings. Negotiate transaction documents, monitor covenant and post-closing compliance, manage external counsel, advise on amendments, waivers, M&A financing issues, and lender consents, and improve legal and compliance processes. Partner with Finance, Treasury, Tax, Development, Power, and senior executives to manage risk and support data center business objectives across jurisdictions.

Provides legal and regulatory advice for Neuberger Berman’s non-U.S. private wealth business. Responsibilities include advising on client onboarding, distribution, licensing, regulatory change, compliance controls, advisory agreements, commercial contracts, RFPs, marketing materials, and technology initiatives across multiple jurisdictions. The role partners with legal, compliance, business, operations, risk, and regional teams while supporting regulatory implementation and risk management.

Leads the Legal function and serves as principal legal adviser to the Board, executives, and senior leaders. Advises on governance, charity law, public funding, commercial contracts, strategic partnerships, procurement, health data, technology, intellectual property, and regulatory risk. Builds a high-performing in-house legal team, develops contracting standards and approval processes, manages external counsel and budgets, and supports partnerships with government, NHS, research, life sciences, and technology organizations.

Provides legal counsel and governance oversight for environmental compliance, supply chain due diligence, product regulations, corporate disclosures, permitting, incident response, audits, and regulatory reporting. Advises multinational manufacturing operations across global sites, manages compliance systems and corrective actions, assesses environmental liabilities in acquisitions, and monitors emerging regulations. Requires collaboration with supply chain, operations, and legal teams, plus expertise in environmental, social compliance, and human rights frameworks.

Provides global legal support across Fever’s business lines, focusing on product compliance, consumer matters, commercial operations, and risk management. Drafts and negotiates B2B, B2C, production, partnership, and commercial agreements, including terms and conditions. Coordinates legal reviews with internal stakeholders and external counsel, develops legal templates and guides, prioritizes strategic matters, and supports team development in a fast-paced international environment.

Senior legal leader serving as strategic advisor to the Global Plans executive team. Responsibilities include managing complex commercial negotiations, advising on multinational regulatory developments, overseeing legal risk, disputes and governance, improving legal-service delivery, developing scalable frameworks, and leading a multi-jurisdictional legal team. The role requires strong commercial judgment, business partnering, stakeholder influence, and experience supporting regulated businesses, ideally in financial services or employee share plans.

The Assistant General Counsel will manage privacy, data protection, and contract-related matters, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and supporting internal teams on legal questions.

Lead legal, regulatory and compliance for the Allied World Lloyd's Syndicate 2232 platform. Oversee UK legal/compliance staff, company secretarial duties, Lloyd's regulatory matters and compliance, serve as Data Privacy Officer, negotiate contracts, manage legal budget, liaise with outside counsel and align with global Legal & Compliance.

Provide in-house legal support for European and Lloyd's underwriting businesses including casualty, healthcare, professional lines, property, marine, fine art, construction and facultative reinsurance. Advise on contract terms, draft policy forms and endorsements, negotiate underwriting and NDAs, support underwriting and claims on coverage issues, maintain standard ceded facultative wordings, and collaborate with global legal teams to implement policies and improve legal processes.

Senior legal leader providing comprehensive legal and regulatory support across EMEA and APAC. Advise regional leadership and Go-to-Market teams on commercial contracts, corporate matters, compliance, privacy, labor, litigation, procurement, and real estate; negotiate strategic transactions; manage external counsel, budgets, and regional legal entities; implement regulatory requirements and support risk, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Leads commercial legal strategy for complex product partnerships and technology agreements. Advises Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Regulatory, Compliance, and Tax teams on go-to-market structures, negotiations, risk, and contract execution. Develops legal templates, playbooks, AI processes, and risk frameworks; improves contract lifecycle management and automation; mentors teams; and supports M&A diligence and integration. The role requires independent judgment in a fast-paced, remote-first fintech environment.

The role involves creating insights for General Counsel clients, advising on governance and risk management, engaging with clients, and producing impactful research and presentations.

Provide EMEA legal and investment management support with a focus on ESG regulation. Advise on implementation of ESG laws, update internal compliance, draft and negotiate distribution and fund documentation, respond to RFP/marketing legal queries, and liaise with internal teams and outside counsel to support commercial and operational matters.

Lead UK & EMEA legal and compliance for e-Storage, focusing on negotiating and drafting high-value project contracts (EPC, supply, O&M, warranties), managing disputes, designing EMEA compliance frameworks, overseeing regulatory matters (EU Batteries, WEEE, trade/sanctions), and leading a regional legal team and external counsel relationships.

Provide EU-focused data privacy and digital regulatory legal counsel across business segments. Lead privacy program development, support HR, Marketing, M&A, and transactional work, manage incident response, regulatory engagement, DPIAs, cross-border data transfers, and advise on EU Data Act, GDPR, data governance, and product compliance.

Lead UK & EMEA legal and compliance for e-Storage, managing regional legal team, negotiating and drafting complex project contracts (EPC, supply, integrator, O&M), overseeing dispute resolution, and implementing regulatory and compliance frameworks (EU Batteries Regulation, WEEE, supply‑chain due diligence, AML/KYC). Advise senior management, manage external counsel, and support governance and risk mitigation across projects.