At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead legal operations, protect intellectual property, and shape the legal function from the ground up.
- Company: Fast-growing, innovative business at the intersection of creative content and commercial rights.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, dynamic work environment, and opportunity to build a legal team.
- Other info: Join a close-knit, entrepreneurial team with significant growth potential.
- Why this job: Be a key player in a high-energy team and influence strategic decisions from day one.
- Qualifications: Qualified solicitor with experience in intellectual property and commercial agreements.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 £ per year.
Lawyer / General Counsel to join a fast-growing, well-backed intellectual property and rights business operating across entertainment, media and creative content. This is a high-energy, highly collaborative company built around a genuinely valuable portfolio and it's expanding quickly, both organically and through acquisition. This is the company's first senior legal hire. Rather than stepping into an established function, you'd be building it from the ground up, shaping how legal operates as the business scales, and becoming a close, trusted adviser to a small senior leadership team from day one.
About the business: The company sits at the intersection of creative content and commercial rights, protecting, managing and commercially exploiting a portfolio built up over many years, working closely with the creators and rightsholders behind it. It's backed by a significant institutional investor and has an active acquisition strategy, so the portfolio, and the legal workload behind it is only going to grow. Culturally, it's a close-knit, entrepreneurial team that moves quickly and expects the same from the people it hires.
What you'd be doing:
- Leading the protection and enforcement of a significant intellectual property and rights portfolio, identifying infringement, managing breaches, and instructing and overseeing external counsel where disputes escape.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including licensing, rights administration, agency and representation arrangements, supplier contracts and confidentiality agreements, often across multiple territories and media.
- Advising on new commercial and exploitation opportunities as the portfolio and the business grow.
- Supporting acquisition activity end to end — legal due diligence, reviewing and negotiating purchase documentation, and identifying legal and commercial risk on potential deals.
- Overseeing wider corporate governance and regulatory compliance, and managing relationships with external advisers across the UK, US and other jurisdictions.
- Building scalable legal infrastructure — contractual templates, governance processes, and appropriate legal technology — to support a growing transaction volume.
- Acting as a genuinely trusted, commercially-focused adviser to the senior leadership team, with real input into strategic decisions rather than a purely reactive legal function.
What I'm looking for: Qualified solicitor, England.
General Counsel employer: Tri-Talent Resourcing
Tri-Talent Resourcing is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and collaborative work culture, perfect for strategic finance leaders looking to make a significant impact. With competitive compensation packages, including a car allowance and bonus benefits, employees are encouraged to grow and develop their skills in a supportive environment. Located in the United Kingdom, this multi-site business offers unique opportunities for professional advancement and the chance to be at the forefront of financial decision-making.
