Top General Counsel Jobs in London

Leads business strategy and operational excellence for Gilead’s global Office of the General Counsel. Responsibilities include developing education and training programs, improving information management, enabling technology and AI adoption, supporting technology roadmaps and governance, optimizing workflows, championing change management, and executing strategic, operational, and cross-functional initiatives across Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Responsibility.

Provides employment, employee relations, benefits, compensation, privacy, and regulatory legal advice across EMEA. Advises HR, senior leaders, and committees; manages employment litigation and external counsel; supports M&A, restructurings, TUPE matters, policies, contracts, and settlement agreements; monitors legal developments and delivers pragmatic guidance in a highly regulated financial-services environment.

Provides international legal, compliance, risk management, and regulatory guidance across global operations. Negotiates cross-border technology and commercial agreements, manages privacy and governance matters, coordinates outside counsel, monitors legal developments, and advises leadership on international growth, litigation, and regulatory compliance.

Provides enterprise-level legal leadership on business and human rights, responsible sourcing, forced labor, and supply chain due diligence. Develops legal strategies, governance frameworks, policies, training, and regulatory guidance; advises on investigations, escalations, sustainability regulations, public policy, and stakeholder engagement. Partners with Legal, Sustainability, Procurement, Finance, Public Affairs, and regional teams to implement consistent, risk-balanced approaches across a global organization.

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 legal strategy for a regulated institutional digital-asset brokerage scaling stablecoin payments. Advise the CEO, board, product, engineering, commercial, finance, and compliance teams; oversee UK, ADGM, EU, US, and Canadian licensing; negotiate institutional, banking, technology, custody, and payment agreements; manage governance, privacy, employment, disputes, entity structures, and external counsel; and build the in-house legal function.

Provides senior legal counsel for European Union products, licensing, regulatory strategy, payments, crypto-assets, banking, and financial services. Advises Product, Engineering, Compliance, and leadership on regulatory classification, launches, risk, and supervisory matters. Oversees licensing workstreams, regulator relationships, outside counsel, contractual drafting, and legal operations. Mentors lawyers and uses AI tools to improve legal-service efficiency.

Serve as Oura’s primary international employment law advisor across EMEA and APAC. Advise on hiring, contracts, employee relations, mobility, compensation, benefits, restructurings, works councils, EOR arrangements, GDPR, and international expansion. Manage outside counsel across jurisdictions and support governance, entity rationalization, M&A, financing, and corporate restructuring for international subsidiaries. Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, and Legal leadership in a fast-growing global company.

Build and lead Hypersonica’s UK legal function, advising founders and senior leaders on commercial contracts, government and defence programmes, intellectual property, export controls, sanctions, national security, corporate governance, employment matters, compliance, and strategic transactions. The role requires practical, commercially minded risk advice, development of legal processes and templates, management of external counsel, and eventual team building.

Serve as ID5’s senior legal executive, advising the CEO, founders, and board on enterprise risk, commercial contracts, privacy, data protection, intellectual property, disputes, governance, corporate development, and strategic transactions. Lead the in-house legal team and outside counsel, build scalable legal processes, oversee cross-border entities, and support product, engineering, partnerships, revenue, and acquisition activities across the UK and US.

Leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function, advising executives and the Board while building a distributed legal team. Responsibilities include public-market readiness, corporate governance, commercial contracting, intellectual property and open-source licensing, privacy, export controls, anti-bribery, competition and AI regulation. The role also oversees litigation, regulatory engagement, external counsel, M&A, partnerships and financing. It is remote in EMEA time zones, with optional London office work and international travel two to four times annually.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.