Top Legal Counsel Jobs in London

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.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates vendor, customer, licensing, and insertion order contracts. Collaborates with Legal, Commercial, Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Accounting teams on contractual matters. Maintains contract workflows, tracks milestones, supports compliance and approvals, improves templates, trains employees, and monitors relevant laws. The role is UK-based or remote within the UK and is offered initially as a contract position.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel to the EMEA Prime Financial Services business, advising on client onboarding, product development, legal agreements, derivatives, clearing, securities lending, and related regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include regulatory horizon scanning, risk assessment, audit and regulator support, cross-functional collaboration, external counsel management, and improving legal processes. Requires a qualified lawyer with UK or comparable jurisdiction licensing and experience in derivatives or prime financial services.

Provides legal and regulatory advice for corporate and strategic equities transactions across EMEA. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating complex documentation for equity derivatives and margin loan facilities, advising on security interests over shares, managing cross-border legal issues, identifying and mitigating risks, collaborating with compliance and external counsel, and improving legal processes and documentation.

Provide legal coverage for equity derivatives and structured products across EMEA, advising trading, structuring and sales teams; draft and negotiate transaction documentation; manage legal, regulatory and reputational risks; collaborate with Compliance and risk functions; oversee external counsel; and drive process and documentation improvements for scalable legal operations.

Senior Legal Counsel will lead complex commercial contract negotiations, advise global commercial and leadership teams, support M&A and strategic transactions, manage disputes and litigation, and provide guidance on privacy, regulatory, competition, IP, and AI matters. The role will also improve legal processes, introduce AI-enabled workflows, maintain templates and playbooks, and train non-lawyers. Candidates will work across international jurisdictions and collaborate closely with commercial, product, privacy, and external legal teams.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates global commercial contracts with customers and vendors; advises internal teams, supports sales and company initiatives, maintains contract data, and coordinates with local counsel. The role requires strong legal drafting, commercial judgment, organization, communication, and collaboration skills in a globally distributed technology company. International travel is required two to four times annually for company events.

Legal Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate customer, commercial, and supplier contracts; advise Sales, Product, Technology, and Procurement teams; manage contractual risk; develop templates, playbooks, and governance frameworks; support AI-related legal matters; deliver commercial training; and provide broader guidance on intellectual property, data protection, regulatory compliance, and general legal issues.

Provide commercial legal support for venture capital investment activities, leading transactions from term sheet through completion, advising on portfolio matters, follow-on investments, exits and secondary transactions. Manage external counsel, legal spend and stakeholder relationships, support retail and institutional fund structures, improve legal processes, and adopt legal technology and AI tools. The role requires independent transaction management, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and practical risk-based advice.

Provides broad in-house legal support across commercial contracts, M&A, corporate governance, employment, intellectual property, disputes, compliance, and strategic initiatives. Advises business leaders, negotiates agreements, coordinates external counsel, supports global operations, and develops scalable legal processes, templates, and training for a growing private equity-backed industrial technology company.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting FTSE Russell and Risk Intelligence by advising on commercial, regulatory, financial services, data, intellectual property, outsourcing, emerging technology, and AI matters. The role negotiates high-value agreements, manages legal and regulatory risk, supports product development and market expansion, advises governance forums, maintains policies and controls, and partners with compliance, privacy, litigation, risk, and business stakeholders globally.

Provides legal support for commercial insurance operations across the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Bermuda. Responsibilities include researching legal issues, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, advising underwriting teams, supporting governance and disputes, monitoring regulatory developments, assisting compliance on sanctions and data protection, delivering training, and managing external counsel. The role requires collaboration with global legal teams and offers exposure to insurance, regulatory, corporate, technology, employment, and privacy law.

Provides legal support to wealth management banking, treasury, lending, and financial markets teams. Advises on secured lending, collateral, derivatives, repo, securities financing, liquidity, cross-border transactions, regulatory requirements, and credit lifecycle matters. Drafts and negotiates finance documentation, manages external counsel, supports product governance, and advises senior stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.

Legal Counsel providing commercially focused advice on commercial contracts, product development, FCA regulation, corporate matters, GDPR, privacy, employment, intellectual property, and disputes. The role involves drafting and negotiating agreements, advising cross-functional teams, supporting compliance and governance, managing external counsel, monitoring regulatory developments, and building scalable legal processes. Candidates should be UK-qualified solicitors with approximately two or more years of post-qualification experience and some in-house experience.

Provides legal advice to international procurement, retail, and new market expansion teams. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates retail, franchise, distribution, lease, supply chain, logistics, IT, digital, and other commercial contracts. Identifies legal risks, supports regulatory compliance and legal proceedings, develops policies and procedures, collaborates with outside counsel, and delivers legal training across a global business.

Maintains and enhances Gartner’s global sanctions compliance program; provides legal guidance on US, UK, EU, and UN sanctions; conducts risk assessments, due diligence, audits, reviews, and internal investigations; interprets regulatory changes; develops policies, controls, documentation, and training; and advises stakeholders on complex compliance matters.

Provides global legal support for buy-side commercial transactions involving procurement, consulting risk, and real estate. Negotiates complex contracts, advises stakeholders on legal and commercial risks, develops scalable contracting processes, and supports continuous improvement through metrics, analytics, automation, and technology-enabled solutions. Partners with global business teams to balance business objectives, compliance obligations, and risk mitigation while improving contract lifecycle efficiency.

Provide pragmatic UK employment law advice to HR and business leaders on disciplinaries, grievances, performance, restructures, exits, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, and litigation support. Draft and update contracts, settlement agreements, policies and templates; support redundancy consultations, TUPE and organisational change; train managers; manage external counsel; and contribute to HR governance and strategic people workstreams.

Provide pragmatic UK employment law advice to HR and business leaders across disciplinaries, grievances, restructures, exits, restrictive covenants, TUPE and tribunal/high court litigation support. Draft and update contracts, settlement agreements and policies, partner with HR, manage external counsel, and train stakeholders on employment law developments.

Senior Legal Counsel responsible for structuring, negotiating, and executing complex reinsurance and insurance growth transactions. Advises deal teams throughout the transaction lifecycle, drafts and negotiates transaction agreements, manages external counsel and legal budgets, monitors regulatory developments, supports governance and senior management decisions, and collaborates with finance, actuarial, investment, risk, and operations teams.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting NBCUniversal’s International Networks and Direct-to-Consumer business. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating distribution, content acquisition, advertising, sponsorship, and commercial agreements; advising on marketing, consumer, copyright, advertising, and compliance matters; supporting product launches; and monitoring regulatory developments across EMEA and Asia Pacific. The role partners with specialist legal teams, manages internal stakeholders, and supervises an intern.

Provide corporate legal advice for AustralianSuper’s UK and US operations, covering FCA regulatory developments, privacy and UK GDPR matters, commercial contracts, technology and AI governance, vendor agreements, and strategic projects. The role involves negotiating agreements, managing legal risk, advising stakeholders on regulatory change, supporting privacy incident response, and delivering pragmatic advice in a regulated financial-services environment.

Provides commercial legal support across procurement, IT, HR and technology contracts; supports M&A, divestments, restructurings and post-close integration; maintains governance, litigation and authority frameworks; assists with IP, regulatory, compliance and privacy operations; and develops legal templates, playbooks, dashboards and legal technology processes for an international food group.

Legal Counsel supporting Wintermute’s derivatives business and expansion into traditional financial markets. Responsibilities include negotiating ISDA Master Agreements, credit support documents, OTC derivatives confirmations, custody, collateral, prime brokerage, and clearing agreements. The role conducts derivatives regulatory research, advises on legal and commercial risks, negotiates with counterparties and counsel, and supports cross-jurisdictional legal projects in a fast-paced digital assets environment.