Top Legal Counsel Jobs in London

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 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 legal advice across EMEA, drafts and negotiates commercial contracts, manages legal risk and group policies, advises HR on employment disputes, supports third-party dispute resolution, and assists with corporate activity including mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. The role also builds relationships with internal commercial teams and supports legal processes and precedents.

Provides senior legal leadership across EMEA for a technology-driven brokerage and trading business. Advises on digital assets, crypto regulation, financial services frameworks, wealth products, trading platforms, corporate transactions, M&A, governance, and cross-border licensing. Partners with senior management, product, trading, compliance, risk, and distribution teams; supports regulatory engagement, product launches, client documentation, legal risk management, external counsel, and team development.

Provides legal counsel for Waymo’s UK market entry and ongoing operations, advising on negotiations, advocacy, disputes, corporate governance, compliance, and evolving UK laws. Partners with public policy, regulatory, product, communications, strategy, operations, and global legal teams; engages UK regulators and authorities; and develops strategies for emerging autonomous-driving legal issues.

Provide senior in-house legal counsel across product, commercial, corporate and compliance matters for a web3 company. Draft and negotiate contracts, manage corporate filings and board processes, develop policies and templates, monitor regulatory developments, respond to consultations, and coordinate with external counsel and cross-functional teams on IP, token/option strategy, and regulatory issues.

Lead group legal function advising founder and executive team on M&A, investments and corporate structuring. Manage corporate governance, compliance (GDPR, AML, financial licensing), risk, disputes, and external counsel across an international portfolio. Support fundraising, investor relations, and control legal spend while executing commercial contracts and fund/SPV structures.

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 day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to 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.

Leads legal and business affairs for Avalon's UK factual and non-scripted television slate. Responsibilities include negotiating and drafting development, financing, production, talent, distribution, and co-production agreements; advising on copyright, clearance, defamation, privacy, duty of care, and OFCOM compliance; supervising legal team members; maintaining production templates and protocols; and supporting talent management, live events, corporate, data protection, trademark, and intellectual property matters.

Provide legal advice on data and technology matters, develop and implement data policies (retention, deletion, storage), prepare guidance and training, advise on cross-jurisdictional data/privacy law issues, support practice groups and business services, and work with the AI Governance team to create standards and processes for data use in AI systems.

The Legal Counsel provides legal support across Monex's global entities, focusing on contract negotiation, corporate matters, and compliance, while assisting with legal frameworks and documentation.

Provide commercial and corporate legal advice across product, CX, marketing, partnerships and sales. Review and develop legal product features, draft and negotiate contracts, support financing and corporate matters, and contribute to legal product development in a fast-scaling legal-tech company.

Provide commercially focused legal advice to the Automotive business across Europe. Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements; advise on warranties, insurance, service contracts, distribution, product development, disputes, and regulatory changes; and support strategic projects. Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Risk, Sales, Product, Operations, and Supply Chain teams while managing external counsel and advising on legal risks across multiple European markets.

Lead legal work for major public procurements and complex customer contracts, from initial review through negotiation and signature. Draft and negotiate SaaS, licensing, professional services, data processing, partnership, reseller, and NDA agreements. Advise on privacy, data protection, intellectual property, licensing, and cross-jurisdictional commercial matters. Partner with the CEO, CFO, CPO, and General Counsel to assess risk and support business decisions.

Provide commercial legal support across customer and supplier agreements, negotiate and draft master agreements, data licenses, NDAs; develop AI-augmented contracting playbooks; enable sales self-service; handle complex, high-impact deals alongside the General Counsel and feed learnings back into templates and tooling.

The Legal Counsel will manage member disputes, oversee commercial strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain legal frameworks while partnering with executive leadership.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel for Injectable Aesthetics and Dermatological Skincare portfolios, reviewing promotional and scientific materials, advising on multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements, supporting product launches and contracts, guiding compliance (anti-bribery, labelling, post-market), and delivering training while partnering with cross-functional product, medical, R&D and commercial teams.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

Provide legal and regulatory counsel for product, licensing and corporate matters focused on payments, crypto, FX and cross-border transactions. Lead licensing strategy (MiCAR/PSD2), advise product and engineering teams, manage external counsel, build scalable legal processes, and mitigate regulatory risk across EU and UK.

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will advise on German operations, manage contract lifecycles, navigate regulatory landscapes, and handle employment law matters while supporting UK operations.