Legal Counsel in London

Our client operates within the consultancy sector, delivering on strategic transformation outcomes across the public and private sectors, unlocking complexity to create meaningful and lasting impact.

Throughout their history, they have shaped and delivered hundreds of programmes across public sector, defence, and infrastructure organisations, and retail and consumer goods clients.

This is a highly prestigious organisation with a truly exceptional culture.

Role summary

We are seeking an exceptional 0-2pqe lawyer to to join the Corporate Legal team, reporting to the Head of Legal.

The Legal Counsel will support the Corporate Legal team to deliver across a diverse range of areas in the UK and internationally.

This will involve working closely with other teams in the company, such as Finance, Commercial, HR and external law firms.

This newly created role (sitting separately to commercial) will be pivotal to the team, focusing on corporate legal matters such as:

• Employment – working with the People team to advise on complex people related and global mobility queries, including complex restrictive covenant matters (relating to both outgoing and incoming senior employees)
• Intellectual Property – managing the intellectual property portfolio, including trademark watch notices, renewals, recording know how and digital IP assets.
• Digital – advising on the commercialisation and licensing arrangements for digital solutions created for clients, including AI governance
• Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial – advising on corporate governance matters arising from a complex group structure and investment arrangements globally.

Dealing with company secretarial tasks such as board minutes, resolutions, statutory filings.

• Share Scheme – administering the legal aspects of the employee equity scheme including issues of shares and buy backs.
• Data Protection – escalation point for complex data protection matters arising either from client projects or central use of data e. g. intra-group data sharing arrangements
• Disputes and Litigation – where disputes and/or litigation arise (which could be in an employment or commercial context), advise and coordinate with external counsel where necessary to protect the legal position.
• Legal Knowledge – adding to and administering the legal knowledgebase with all the knowledge.

This will also include regular review of the template documents and agreements, speaking to relevant stakeholders and drafting updates.

Occasional M&A when required.

Person

A qualified lawyer with approximately 0-2 years post-qualification experience working in either a top law firm or in house legal team. (Preferred 1-2pqe)

• Very strong academics with a degree from a top University (Russell Group)
• Have great attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills and generally be a pleasure to work with.
• Be able to work independently and on your own initiative when appropriate, though having good judgment on when to escalate
• Have excellent time management and organisational skills, particularly as you will often be working across several complex matters at once
• Be able to communicate complex concepts clearly and sufficiently to non-legal audiences, both orally and in writing
• Be able to digest large amounts of information quickly.

We are happy to consider UK Qualified lawyer applicants with an interest in moving In House from a variety of commercial backgrounds.

Ability to work 3 days in office (Oxfordshire or London office, essential)