Senior Legal Advisor

As Senior Commercial Counsel, reporting into the Lucy Group Head of Legal, you will be a problem solving and solutions oriented senior legal professional, and, as a senior member of the in-house Legal Department, you will be an active business partner and trusted adviser to the businesses and Group functions, able to work with colleagues at a number of different levels of the business.

Lucy Group is a multinational private company based in Oxford, UK. Through our various businesses, we’re on a mission to enable the global shift to electrification and make the built environment sustainable. With around 1800 people across five continents and a turnover exceeding £400m, we’re growing rapidly, both organically and through acquisition.

Key Areas of Operation:

• Lucy Electric: electrical equipment, controls, and automation for medium and low voltage secondary power distribution.
• Lucy Controls: intelligent street lighting, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and smart city management solutions.
• Lucy Real Estate: sustainable living through residential property development, lettings and management, primarily in Oxfordshire.

The role is hybrid, but the successful candidate will be required to attend the Lucy Group Head Office in Oxford at least 2 days per week.

Key Accountabilities:

• Advise the Lucy Electric and Lucy Controls businesses on a variety of legal matters including M&A, corporate, sales and purchasing commercial contracts, IP, IT and litigation, with minimal supervision.
• Advise the Lucy Real Estate business on a variety of residential property development legal matters with minimal supervision (but excluding both conveyancing and complex specialist real estate matters, both of which are externally outsourced).
• Support the Group Head of Legal with a review of tenders and contracts (both sales and procurement) for the various Lucy Group companies.
• Apply business and legal judgment to proposed deals, relationships, and other issues requiring legal or compliance attention.
• Manage external legal counsel, where required, to ensure advice is given in a timely and cost-effective manner and within budgetary constraints.
• Provide advice to operational teams on appropriate strategies in relation to disputes that have not yet been formalised.
• Ideally, advise on regulatory including international trade controls and data privacy law.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience Minimum:

• Must be UK (or common law equivalent) qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 8 – 10 years post qualification experience, including in-house experience, preferably within an industrial setting.
• Knowledge of the specific laws and regulations that apply to the industry that the Group companies work in, such as treasury, transfer pricing, electricity distribution and would be ideal.
• Knowledge of real estate law and commercial law are an absolute requirement.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and work independently or in a team environment as required, managing numerous and changing priorities effectively and efficiently.
• Knowledge and experience of relevant areas of law, including M&A, corporate, property, construction, sales and purchasing commercial contracts, IP, IT, data security and litigation.
• Strong structuring, drafting and negotiating skills.
• Ability to manage a sizeable workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to convey complex legal information in an understandable manner.
• Experience of finding risk-based solutions to ensure the businesses can undertake complex transactions efficiently.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritise and to respond in a timely manner.
• Strong influencing and team-working skills.
• Abides by our company values and displays integrity at all times.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) including negotiation skills.
• Ability to interact effectively and professionally with a number of levels of management, internal and external business partners.

Does this sound interesting? We would love to hear from you. Our application process is quick and easy. Apply today!