Senior Commercial Counsel, Europe, CoStar - London

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.

CoStar is seeking a senior-level attorney to serve in the role of Senior Commercial Counsel, Europe. This is a great opportunity for a senior commercial lawyer to be a key contributor to the growth of the business across Europe, and beyond. The position will be a leader on commercial law matters, and report directly to the Associate General Counsel - Head of Legal, Europe (based in London). You will provide commercial contracts and other general commercial, product, and legal advice across CoStar’s leading products, including CoStar (database of real estate information), Loopnet (commercial real estate marketplace), OnTheMarket (residential property portal) and Matterport (3D digital twin technology).

You will possess a creative approach to solving global business and legal problems, thrive in a fast-paced environment, have excellent credentials, show meticulous attention to detail and accuracy, and demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills. The Senior Commercial Counsel role will suit a candidate who likes transactional contracts and broader commercial legal work, who wants to operate as a business partner and has the ambition to make a high impact within a leading global business.

Location: The position is based in CoStar’s European head office, Blue Fin Building on the Southbank (beside the Tate Modern), London. We are an office-based company, and this is core to our culture in allowing us to make and execute quickly on key decisions. The successful candidate will work primarily with teams based in the UK, France, Germany and Spain but also globally where required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the lead legal point of contact and trusted business partner to the European sales teams and other key business stakeholders.
• Provide strategic legal advice regarding all aspects of the contracting life cycle, and run legal negotiations end-to-end.
• Advise on legislative changes and suitable implementation of new processes across the business in order to comply with such changes.
• Build close cross-functional relationships with stakeholders of all levels in supported business operations and obtain and maintain a solid knowledge of the products, services and objectives of those operations.
• Draft and negotiate a variety of domestic and international commercial agreements, including licensing, SaaS, manufacturing, supply, consulting, marketing and other sales and operational agreements.
• Build and maintain templates and processes for jurisdiction specific commercial contracting.
• Maintain and manage notices, policies and other related documents.
• Develop initial strategy for responding to contractual legal claims and threats of litigation including assisting with fact development in pre-litigation and/or litigation matters.
• Manage and collaborate with external counsel in multiple jurisdictions where required, including negotiation of fees and monitoring of spend against budgets.
• Work collaboratively with peers in the wider global legal team to create global process efficiencies.

QUALIFICATIONS

• England and Wales qualified solicitor (or equivalent European jurisdiction qualification).
• Degree from reputable University (or UK law school) with excellent academics.
• More than 5 years’ PQE, including 2 years’ experience at a top law firm. A candidate with some in-house legal experience would be preferred.
• Experience with working across multiple jurisdictions, including UK, US, France, Germany, and Spain would be beneficial.
• Fluent or advanced level in any of the following languages is highly desirable: French, German and/or Spanish.
• Experience in negotiation of contract terms on data privacy and protection of intellectual property rights is helpful.
• Ability to provide pragmatic and risk-based advice to the business.
• Experience at working for a US headquartered and/or publicly listed business is desirable.
• Be extremely organized, detail-oriented and efficient with very strong follow-through on accountability.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with ability to be flexible and adapt to frequently changing workload and responsibilities.
• Thrive in new and potentially uncomfortable situations and be able to manage multiple client demands.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines, as well as having an outstanding working environment based in the Blue Fin. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.