Legal Director (London)

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely. Direct message the job poster from eNL Legal Recruitment This will be a pivotal role in our clients senior leadership team. You’ll build the legal function from scratch, embedding legal thinking across the business and shaping the foundations of their next phase of growth, including their path to Series B and beyond. You’ll act as a strategic advisor to the executive team – bringing clarity to complexity, balancing risk and velocity, and helping the business move fast with confidence. This is a role for a commercially-minded legal operator who thrives in high-growth environments and knows how to build for scale. THE CANDIDATE: 10+ years PQE with a strong blend of top-tier law firm and in-house scale-up experience. Track record of owning legal strategy in a high-growth environment, ideally as the first legal hire or Head of Legal. Strong commercial judgment and deep understanding of startup risk across legal domains. Highly autonomous and solutions-oriented—able to cut through complexity and guide the business with calm, sound judgment. Skilled at making legal advice accessible, actionable, and aligned with business goals. Calm under pressure, highly autonomous, and motivated by impact and mission HOW TO APPLY: Contact Pasquale Agatiello at eNL on 020 7183 8586 or email Pasquale.agatiello@enllegal.co.uk with your CV, or simply call for a confidential discussion. eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission. As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Seniority level Seniority levelDirector Employment type Employment typeFull-time Job function Job functionLegal IndustriesLegal Services Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at eNL Legal Recruitment by 2x Get notified about new Legal Director jobs in London Area, United Kingdom . London, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago London, England, United Kingdom 6 days ago London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago London, England, United Kingdom 23 hours ago London, England, United Kingdom 3 hours ago London, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago Director/Senior Director, Legal – International London, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago London, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Senior Legal Counsel, Global Investment Management FirmDIRECTOR, BUSINESS & LEGAL AFFAIRS, UNSCRIPTED London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago Corporate Legal Counsel – Assistant Vice President London, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago London, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago Associate Director, Legal (Specialist Function) London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago London, England, United Kingdom 1 day ago Senior Legal Counsel – Based in Midlands or North of England London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Corporate Legal Counsel – Assistant Vice President London, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago Executive Director Legal – Global Regulatory Law London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago Great role for an experienced FMCG Senior Legal Counsel/HoL with strong M&A/Commercial looking for a step up – London (Hybrid) London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs (Permanent) London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago London Area, United Kingdom 12 minutes ago We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI. #J-18808-Ljbffr