Top Legal Counsel Jobs in London

As Commercial Counsel, you will draft, negotiate contracts, advise on legal risks, and standardize commercial agreements while collaborating with business teams.

Provide strategic legal advice on employment law issues, draft employment contracts and policies, support employee relations, and oversee disputes and tribunal cases.

Senior commodities lawyer providing strategic legal advice across commodities derivatives, physical trading and structured financing in EMEA. Lead transaction structuring, negotiation, and documentation (including EFET), advise on regulatory/licensing matters, support innovation, manage legal and regulatory risk, and partner with business, Risk, Compliance and Finance to ensure governance and controls.

Provide legal advice across UK and EMEA on payments, banking, consumer protection and commercial matters. Draft, structure and negotiate contracts with bank partners, platforms and enterprise customers. Support product launches, license applications, API integrations, templates, process improvements, training, and mentoring; assess regulatory and operational risks and collaborate with global legal and business teams.

Provide pragmatic commercial legal advice across the business; draft and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, software licensing, subcontracting, reseller); support data governance, regulatory compliance, healthcare-specific issues; assist with M&A, risk management, legal training, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid Leeds-based digital healthcare business.

Provide legal support across International Networks & DTC for EMEA/APAC: draft and negotiate distribution, content acquisition, advertising and sponsorship agreements; advise on marketing and consumer law; act as primary adviser for IMD third‑party channel distribution to the US; support product launches and projects; monitor copyright, advertising and compliance developments; collaborate with IP, Litigation, Privacy and Employment teams.

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.

Provide legal counsel to global live-production and content teams. Draft, review, and negotiate agreements involving production, distribution, marketing, sponsorship, talent, and licensing. Advise on legal risks across jurisdictions, intellectual property, privacy, regulatory matters, disputes, and incident management. Manage legal projects and contract workflows, maintain databases, improve templates, conduct research, and deliver practical guidance, training, and presentations to business and creative stakeholders.

Provide commercial legal support for SaaS agreements, develop legal workflows and templates using AI tools, and analyze contract data. Collaborate with sales and product teams to improve legal processes and product features.

The Senior Legal Counsel will provide legal advice for FinTech and payments products, manage regulatory risk, and support cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Provide legal support across commercial contracting, intellectual property protection, corporate matters and compliance. Draft and negotiate agreements, manage the IP portfolio, instruct external counsel, conduct legal research, advise on data protection and regulatory issues, and support legal team processes and objectives during a 12-month fixed-term period.

Provide fixed-term maternity cover delivering legal and regulatory support across European operations. Draft and negotiate contracts, update customer-facing documentation, advise on product, claims and compliance matters, support data protection (DPIAs, incident handling, DSARs), manage investigations and reporting, prepare internal reports, supervise junior lawyers, and ensure smooth handover and continuity across stakeholders and external counsel.

Provide commercial legal advice across contracts, product, regulatory (FCA), corporate matters, data protection/GDPR, and general legal support. Draft and negotiate supplier/partner/customer agreements, maintain templates and playbooks, support external counsel, and help build scalable legal processes and training materials.

Serve as lead legal partner for the Breast Cancer Therapeutic Area, providing strategic legal guidance across commercial, medical, development, value and access. Draft, negotiate and manage complex R&D and commercial agreements; assess and mitigate regulatory and compliance risks; support business development and alliance management; review promotional and external materials; enable product launches and build legal capability across regions.

Provide strategic legal counsel for international neuroscience and gene therapy product portfolio. Lead negotiation and management of complex R&D and commercial agreements, mitigate regulatory and compliance risks, support BD and alliance integration, enable compliant communications, and build legal capability across cross-functional teams.

Provide legal advice and risk management for global live event and content production: draft, review, and negotiate production-related contracts; support compliance (IP, data privacy, regulatory); manage disputes and incident responses; maintain templates and legal databases; deliver training and guidance to stakeholders.

Fixed-term (14 months) Legal Counsel role focusing on negotiating enterprise SaaS and API agreements with UK, US and Canadian financial institutions. Embed with Sales to close deals, advise Product and Engineering, build and manage AI-enabled legal tooling, and handle BAU legal matters including data protection and employment issues. Requires hands-on commercial contracting and the ability to operate autonomously at pace.

Senior in-house counsel responsible for contracts, high-risk legal matters, litigation strategy, regulatory compliance, data privacy, licensing, and cross-border fintech legal advice. The role develops scalable legal policies and processes, partners with engineers to automate legal work using AI, trains business teams, and advises senior stakeholders on commercially pragmatic risk decisions across global markets.

Provides broad, commercially focused legal and compliance advice across a global ecommerce group. Responsibilities include cross-border corporate transactions, M&A, capital markets, reorganizations, debt financing, regulatory compliance, disputes, employment, intellectual property, and commercial contracts. The counsel will manage external lawyers, advise senior executives and regional teams, mitigate risk, and support strategic business initiatives across multiple countries.

Supports KONE’s legal team by reviewing, negotiating, and executing construction and maintenance contracts, including JCT and NEC agreements, collateral warranties, and bonds. Maintains contract records, attends client negotiations, completes contract checklists, assists with litigation under supervision, and performs general legal administration. The role requires attention to detail, legal understanding, contract-drafting experience, communication skills, and interest in non-contentious construction law.

Provides commercially focused legal advice on corporate and strategic projects within Standard Life’s Corporate and Investments Legal team. Responsibilities include advising on and negotiating investment services and commercial agreements, managing complex legal matters autonomously, identifying legal and commercial risks, managing external counsel, and partnering with senior stakeholders across the business.

Lead KAIO's legal strategy while managing compliance across jurisdictions. Oversee legal operations, contracts, data privacy, and corporate governance. Foster culture and representation within the organization.

Provide commercial legal support across international jurisdictions: draft and negotiate commercial, supplier, NDA and SaaS contracts; advise on privacy/data protection; support sales, marketing, engineering and HR matters; manage external counsel; deliver compliance training; and assist with corporate governance and company secretarial tasks.

Provide IP and IT legal support: review and draft license and SaaS agreements, manage IP outsourcing and software licensing, advise on open-source compliance, collaborate with commercial teams on IP terms, and handle trademark and other IP issues.

Legal Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, including services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, and SaaS licenses. The role also advises on privacy, labor, and general corporate matters while partnering with sales, product, marketing, finance, and payments teams. The counsel will use AI-assisted tools for contract review, legal research, risk analysis, document drafting, and workflow efficiency while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, compliance, and professional judgment.