RVU

Legal Counsel

RVU

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • 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

  • 2 to 4 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 corporate law
  • 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 with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
  • Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme
  • A healthy learning and training budget
  • Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
  • Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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Hard skills
drafting commercial agreementsnegotiating commercial agreementsrisk assessmentdata protection lawse-privacy lawscorporate integrationintellectual property lawcompetition lawcommercial lawcorporate law
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationimpactful decision-makingprocess improvementguidance provisionpolicy managementlegal support
Certifications
solicitor qualification in England and Walescommon law jurisdiction qualification