Top Legal Counsel Jobs in London

Provide commercial legal advice and oversight for venture capital investments from term sheet through completion. Advise on follow-on investments, portfolio company matters, shareholder issues, secondary transactions, and exits. Manage external counsel, legal spend, stakeholders, and transaction execution while improving legal processes through standardization, automation, AI, and legal technology. Support fund structures, strategic legal initiatives, precedents, and internal guidance.

Legal Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate commercial, procurement, vendor, customer, construction, financing, and partnership agreements. The role advises stakeholders on contractual risk, supports data center delivery and procurement, assists with corporate structuring and governance, maintains legal templates and workflows, tracks obligations, supports transaction due diligence, and advises on regulatory matters.

Provide commercial and regulatory legal advice across UK fintech products, including business credit cards, payments, lending, insurance, credit scoring, and SME M&A services. Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, customer terms, and partner agreements; advise on financial regulations; improve legal processes using templates, playbooks, and AI tools; and manage external counsel and legal budgets.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

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 commercially focused legal advice for European joint ventures and real estate investments. Structure, negotiate, and manage joint venture, shareholder, investment, governance, funding, and service agreements. Advise on transactions, amendments, disputes, and contractual risks; coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions; support investment committees; and serve as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders.

Provides legal support to the private equity business, managing fund and product structuring, investment transactions, fund launches, documentation, investor negotiations, due diligence, corporate actions, and lifecycle matters. Coordinates with internal teams and external counsel, advises on fund structures and terms, oversees legal workstreams, and manages relationships with the global Private Equity business and other asset-class teams.

Legal Counsel supporting THE*TEAM Creators by reviewing, drafting, and negotiating sponsorship, endorsement, appearance, content, production, literary, and other agreements. The role also involves legal research, risk mitigation, intellectual property matters, dispute resolution, litigation oversight, and compliance with anti-bribery, AML, data protection, and sanctions policies across EMEA and APAC.

Serve as Ravio’s first dedicated in-house legal counsel, owning commercial contracts, corporate matters, employment issues, privacy documentation, data protection compliance, governance, and external counsel relationships. Support SOC 2 and ISO certification cycles, administer Vanta, manage security questionnaires, and advise leadership and cross-functional teams on legal and regulatory risks. The role requires independent ownership, practical contract negotiation, strong UK/EU privacy expertise, and hands-on compliance operations experience.

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 advice on retail banking products, consumer credit, payments, and strategic initiatives. Interpret regulatory changes, assess legal and regulatory risks, support product and engineering teams, participate in governance forums, engage with FCA and PRA regulators, and manage external counsel. The role requires pragmatic, commercially focused guidance across retail consumer and SME banking services under a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Provides legal advice on retail banking products, consumer credit, payments, and strategic initiatives. Interprets regulatory change, assesses legal and regulatory risk, supports product and engineering teams, contributes to governance decisions, engages with FCA and PRA regulators, and manages external counsel. The role requires a UK-qualified lawyer with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience and strong financial services regulatory expertise.

Provide commercial legal support by drafting and negotiating client and supplier contracts, advising cross-functionally on contracting, data and IP issues, delivering training, and helping leverage AI tools while managing risk.

Legal Counsel supporting the General Counsel on commercial agreements, negotiations, financial regulation, payments, compliance, employment, intellectual property, IT, marketing, data protection, and client matters. The role involves identifying legal and regulatory risks, supporting new products and market expansion, delivering legal training, advising stakeholders, and improving legal processes. Candidates should be qualified lawyers with 1–2+ years of post-qualification experience, ideally in fintech, payments, or financial services.

In-house Legal Counsel responsible for commercial contracting and data licensing across SaaS, technology, API, vendor, and procurement agreements. The role independently leads negotiations, advises on intellectual property, data rights, privacy, and commercial frameworks, and supports contract migrations, acquisitions, due diligence, templates, playbooks, and legal technology initiatives. The position works closely with Sales, Product, Data, Technology, and senior commercial stakeholders.

Legal Counsel on a six-month contract supporting commercial contracts, intellectual property and brand protection, corporate projects, disputes, legal operations, compliance, and risk management. The role provides cross-functional legal advice to product and business teams, manages legal queries, improves workflows and contract systems, and maintains templates and training materials. Candidates must be qualified solicitors in England and Wales or equivalent, with 2–5 years’ post-qualification experience and in-house technology-sector experience.

Legal Counsel supporting commercial contract drafting and negotiation, intellectual property and brand protection, corporate projects, dispute resolution, compliance, risk management, and legal operations. The role partners cross-functionally, advises product teams, manages legal queries, improves workflows and contract systems, and maintains templates, playbooks, and training materials. It requires a qualified solicitor with technology-sector experience, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to provide practical, commercially focused advice.

Provides UK-focused commercial and legal counsel across contracts, tenders, partnerships, procurement, compliance, export controls, sanctions, data protection, governance, and corporate matters. The role drafts and negotiates agreements, advises business teams on legal risks, coordinates external counsel, supports compliance initiatives, and helps establish scalable legal processes within a regulated defense technology company.

Provides day-to-day UK employment law advice to HR teams and business leaders across international operations. Drafts employment agreements, policies, procedures, and related documents; advises on employee relations, benefits, immigration compliance, pensions, regulatory matters, disputes, and litigation. Assesses legal risks, manages projects, coordinates with internal teams and external counsel, delivers legal training, and supports employment-law best practices across multiple jurisdictions.

Part-time Legal Counsel on a nine-month fixed-term contract, leading corporate structuring, governance, commercial contracting, fundraising and financing support, risk mitigation, and external counsel management. The role requires a commercially minded UK-qualified lawyer who can negotiate agreements, support equity or debt financings, establish scalable legal processes, and work directly with executives, investors, and advisers in a growth-stage climate technology company.

Provides independent legal advice on EMEA sustainability regulations, including CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, PPWR, EmpCo, and forced-labor requirements. Drives cross-segment coordination, regulatory risk identification, enterprise legal alignment, and regionally informed guidance. Develops playbooks, templates, presentations, and training while serving as the regional legal point of contact and connector between central sustainability counsel and business stakeholders.

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.

Legal Counsel will manage commercial contracts, including drafting and negotiating MSAs, NDAs, and DPAs; oversee contract repositories, obligations, renewals, and governance; and develop AI-enabled legal workflows and review playbooks. The role also provides advice on employment law, GDPR, compliance, and corporate governance while partnering with sales, finance, and delivery teams. Candidates need solicitor qualification, 3–6 years PQE, commercial technology or professional services contracting experience, contract management expertise, and strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.

Legal Counsel will support commercial, corporate, and regulatory work across multiple jurisdictions. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, translating regulatory requirements into product guidance, advising Operations, Finance, Trading, and Product, coordinating compliance filings, maintaining legal policies and registers, and building scalable legal templates, playbooks, and automated workflows. The role requires an England and Wales-qualified solicitor or equivalent with 2–7 years of post-qualification experience.

Provides business-focused legal counsel for commercial SaaS activities, drafting and negotiating technology, cloud, licensing, customer, supplier, reseller, and partner agreements. Advises on contractual disputes, commercial risk, data privacy, GDPR, security requirements, and regulatory matters. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, manages external counsel, and monitors developments in technology and commercial law.