About this role
Role Overview
- Working with our business teams to draft, negotiate, and execute commercial agreements, whilst proactively maintaining and improving the processes that underpin them
- Providing day-to-day legal perspective and guidance, as well as risk assessment and mitigation
- Advising our business teams on compliance with data protection and e-privacy laws
- Assisting with acquisitions and corporate integration projects
- Helping to establish and manage a framework of policies and guidance to manage legal and commercial issues within our business.
Requirements
- 1 to 5 years’ post-qualification experience in-house or at a commercial or corporate law firm with experience providing full service commercial legal support (the reference to PQE is a guide only. We welcome applications from candidates with more or less PQE)
- An experience and appreciation of the challenges and requirements of delivering legal support in a fast-moving commercial in-house team with ability to be impactful from an early stage
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales (or another common law jurisdiction)
- Proven technical ability to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements to tight timescales
- Experience of advising on IT, data protection/e-privacy laws as well as commercial and law
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Knowledge of intellectual property, competition law, and regulated sector experience
- Knowledge of the insurance and/or financial services.
Benefits
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans, and employee assistance programme
- Free gym access
- Employee discounts programme
- A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
- Regular events
- from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.