Job Description
- In-house role with a financial services tech company based in London / hybrid
- Wide-ranging, multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial role
Our Client is a technology business operating in the financial services sector.
Duties will include:
- Working closely with the Legal Team team to provide pragmatic commercial legal advice and manage risk
- Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts, including data and privacy review
- Responding to and triaging queries from the internal stakeholders
- Assisting with training the business, producing guidance documents & keeping legal resources up to date
- Working along with external counsel to maintain the IP portfolio
- Assisting with M&A and other key projects
- Running the legal supplier assurance process
- Organising media law training for editorial staff
- Assisting with disputes or other ad-hoc projects
This is an opportunity for a junior lawyer to continue to expand their skill set.
The successful candidate will be a Solicitor or Barrister qualified in the UK (or equivalent Common Law Jurisdiction) with demonstrable experience of working with and thorough knowledge of the laws of England & Wales.
They will be likely to have between 0-2 years PQE.
The successful candidate will have experience of reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts
Desirable:
- Experience of working in-house
- Experience working with other jurisdictions such as US/Asia
- Data protection experience and experience of / exposure to corporate (M&A) deals
For further information about the package on offer for this role, please apply to this advert or, contact the instructed agent, David Taylor of Michael Page Legal.