Top Legal Counsel Jobs in London

Provides strategic corporate law and governance advice for Wise’s dual-listed, multinational group. Responsibilities include capital markets disclosure, equity and debt programs, M&A and reorganizations, board and subsidiary governance, share plans, corporate agreements, regulatory-capital matters, and commercial contracting. The role also builds scalable legal processes, manages external counsel, advises senior stakeholders, and mentors legal team members.

Provides commercial and regulatory legal counsel across Wise’s UK, EMEA, and global operations. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, advising on payments, banking, consumer protection, partnerships, API integrations, licensing, market expansion, and regulatory risk. The role also supports product launches, contract lifecycle management, legal process improvements, templates, training, and mentoring while delivering practical, risk-based guidance to business stakeholders.

Provides strategic, commercial, and operational legal advice to Takeda’s UK and Ireland business. Responsibilities include negotiating commercial agreements, advising on regulatory, competition, governance, pricing, procurement, and market access matters, supporting digital and innovation initiatives, managing disputes and external counsel, monitoring legal developments, and improving contracting processes. The role independently handles complex legal matters and advises senior stakeholders in a highly regulated life sciences environment.

Provides commercial legal advice for Wise Platform’s global partnerships with banks, financial institutions, and enterprise customers. Responsibilities include managing contract lifecycles, drafting and negotiating agreements, developing legal processes, templates, playbooks, and guardrails, advising on payments and financial regulation, supporting Product and Compliance, improving legal technology and workflows, managing risk, and mentoring legal and business teams.

Provides legal support for derivatives and trading activities across global investment-management operations. Drafts, reviews, negotiates, and completes ISDA, CSA, GMRA, FX, clearing, prime brokerage, confidentiality, and related counterparty agreements. Advises on new derivatives products, contractual and regulatory risk, investment-management products, and fund structures. Collaborates with internal stakeholders, counterparties, external counsel, and international legal teams while managing documentation and delivering practical legal solutions under pressure.

Provides strategic, commercial, legal, and regulatory advice across banking business areas, including retail, wealth management, commercial banking, products, customer journeys, digital matters, and transactions. The role manages legal risks, stakeholders, external advisers, legal costs, process improvements, legal technology adoption, and regulatory change while supporting projects and initiatives.

Senior Legal Counsel will advise Taylor & Francis on corporate, commercial, intellectual property, copyright, AI licensing, and content-related legal matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, managing disputes and external counsel, mitigating legal risk, supporting senior stakeholders, and collaborating with international legal teams. The role requires qualified legal experience, strong IP and copyright expertise, commercial judgment, effective communication, and the ability to work independently in a business-facing environment.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting Taylor & Francis’ Journals business on intellectual property, copyright, AI licensing, commercial contracts, publishing agreements, disputes, defamation, privacy, and regulatory developments. The role advises senior stakeholders, manages legal projects and external counsel, oversees junior lawyers, and collaborates with global legal teams. It is a maternity-cover position requiring hybrid attendance at Milton Park or London offices three days per week.

Provides commercially focused legal advice for a UK carbon capture and storage project and regulated entity. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating commercial, real estate, planning, construction, financing, regulatory, government, and intra-group agreements; supporting M&A, disputes, company secretarial matters, compliance, and document management. The role also advises CCS affiliates on English law and supports project development, operations, consenting, financing, and regulatory compliance.

Provides commercially focused legal advice to UK port, logistics, property, construction, technology, SaaS, procurement, and contracting operations. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating agreements, managing legal risks and regulatory obligations, supporting tenders and TUPE matters, overseeing external counsel, advising on UK GDPR and data protection, maintaining contract governance, and delivering legal updates and training to stakeholders.

Provides strategic legal and regulatory advice to M&G’s asset management business, managing legal risk, regulatory compliance, governance, contentious matters, litigation support, regulatory change projects, and new product launches. The role advises on fund launches, investment management and investment advisory agreements, regulatory engagement, fund structures, and multi-jurisdictional matters while collaborating with compliance, risk, executive committees, and external counsel.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates commercial contracts, including services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, and SaaS licenses. Advises on privacy, labor, and general corporate law while collaborating with sales, product, marketing, finance, and payments teams. Uses AI tools for contract review, legal research, clause analysis, risk identification, summarization, and drafting while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, compliance, and professional judgment.

Legal Counsel will draft and negotiate project development, EPC, O&M, financing, corporate, and energy trading agreements for renewable energy projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. The role advises management on legal risks, permits, regulatory matters, disputes, corporate structuring, and stakeholder negotiations; manages external counsel and legal workstreams; supports project development and contract administration; and leads adoption of AI tools within the legal team.

Provides strategic legal advice to underwriting and product teams on insurance and reinsurance policy wordings, documentation, legal risk, regulatory developments, and coverage interpretation. Establishes wording frameworks and templates, reviews complex transactions, supports claims analysis, engages brokers, clients, regulators, and industry bodies, and delivers legal training. Requires post-qualified insurance law experience, ideally in-house with a reinsurer or insurer and within the London Market.

Provides strategic legal advice to underwriting and product teams on insurance and reinsurance policy wording, documentation, regulatory compliance, and legal risk. Supports claims coverage analysis, maintains approved templates and terms, monitors legislative and case-law developments, engages with brokers, clients, regulators, and industry groups, and delivers legal training. The role also manages external counsel and advises on complex transactions, delegated underwriting, reinsurance structures, and product-specific issues.

Provides legal advice and transaction support for derivatives, securities financing, structured products, and risk-transfer transactions. Leads drafting and negotiation of master trading agreements and related documentation, advises on regulatory requirements and new products, supports trade floors, manages external counsel, and mentors colleagues. The role partners closely with front-office stakeholders across international markets and contributes to legal technology, AI-enabled workflow improvements, and broader legal projects.

Provides legal advice across Jupiter’s investment management business, including Irish UCITS funds, Cayman funds, client investments, fund service-provider contracts, distribution agreements, and regulatory matters. The role reviews contracts, supports compliance with FCA and other requirements, manages external advisers, assists with legal projects, and improves departmental processes, precedents, and AI adoption. It requires a qualified UK solicitor with financial-services experience, international market exposure, and knowledge of UCITS, AIFMD, and MiFID.

Senior Legal Counsel advising Russell Investments’ UK and EMEA operations on financial services regulation, commercial agreements, regulatory projects, governance, fund structures, and business initiatives. The role involves negotiating investment management and trading documents, managing external counsel, supporting regulatory authorisations and change projects, and partnering with senior stakeholders, Compliance, Risk, Finance, HR, and business teams.

Provides practical commercial legal advice across the UK, Europe, and Middle East, focusing on design-services agreements, subconsultant contracts, project delivery, claims, disputes, risk management, templates, training, and broader business matters such as licensing, insurance, registrations, and leases.

Provides legal advice on digital, privacy, technology, and AI governance matters across a global beauty business. Responsibilities include negotiating technology and commercial contracts, supporting data protection compliance, conducting DPIAs and vendor reviews, advising on digital marketing and AI use cases, monitoring regulations, handling data subject requests, supporting procurement and legal proceedings, and delivering legal training.

Provide independent in-house legal advice across commercial and technology contracts throughout their lifecycle. Advise on intellectual property, data protection, competition, advertising, marketing, equality, consumer protection, procurement, and related disputes. Support senior stakeholders, government departments, regulators, suppliers, and commercial partners in a fast-moving railway-sector environment.

Provides independent, commercially focused legal advice across corporate transactions, commercial contracts, intellectual property, employment, data protection and regulated financial services matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating agreements, supporting mergers and acquisitions, managing trademark portfolios, advising on legal and commercial risks, supporting cross-border projects, and collaborating with business, compliance, risk, technology and external legal stakeholders.

Provides legal advice and transactional support for financial markets activities, including OTC derivatives, securities financing, prime brokerage, trading, clearing, custody, collateral, and settlement arrangements. Drafts and negotiates ISDA, GMSLA, and commercial agreements; advises on legal and commercial risks, regulatory developments, new products, digital assets, and cross-border matters. Partners with business stakeholders and senior management while managing external counsel and multiple legal matters.

Provide privacy and data protection counsel to product and engineering teams developing consumer gaming products. Advise on privacy-by-design, player data, personalization, advertising, analytics, children’s privacy, AI-related regulation, third-party integrations, and cross-border data transfers. Conduct DPIAs, assess legal risks, interpret EU and UK requirements, draft and negotiate data protection agreements, and collaborate with product, engineering, compliance, marketing, and other business teams.

Provides commercial, contractual, regulatory, and corporate legal advice to gas, power, and carbon trading teams. Reviews and negotiates LNG MSAs, EFETs, ISDAs, financing agreements, guarantees, and related contracts; monitors regulatory developments; supports compliance, market expansion, trading disputes, joint ventures, and corporate governance. The role requires a qualified SRA-registered lawyer with energy commodity trading experience and at least three years of relevant post-qualification experience.