Legal Officer in City of London

A Career with Trivandi means the opportunity to work on the world’s most iconic projects in a supportive, people-first environment with colleagues who are passionate, collaborative and love what they do. Our culture is grounded in trust and fulfilment, with a shared passion for achieving excellence, whilst having fun. We’re dedicated to ensuring that every team member’s voice is heard and valued, enabling Trivandi to be shaped and grown by the people within it. Ultimately, Trivandi is a place where you’ll be excited to come to work at the start of each week.

Together, we keep our shared values at the heart of everything we do:

• Passion: We love what we do and care passionately about achieving great outcomes with our partners.
• Trust & Quality: We are trusted to consistently deliver to the highest international standards and professional ethics.
• One Team: We are a close-knit team and know that our best work is done together. We care for each other, always putting people first, enabling us to deliver our best work.
• Always Evolving: We don’t stand still. We strive to make each project better than the last, daring to challenge what’s gone before, in our quest for innovation and improvement.

Trivandi provides advisory, design and delivery services across sport, events, live entertainment and venues.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking someone who is capable of advising on legal affairs across our global operations. You will play a pivotal role in protecting the business while enabling growth, ensuring compliance, commercial contracting, and working with external counsel for more strategic legal matters across multiple jurisdictions: UK, UAE, KSA, USA, and Australia. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially savvy legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-led, and international organisation and wants to have exposure to contracting in the world of sport, live entertainment and events. We want to invest in your development. A rare opportunity to help shape legal and governance frameworks in a global, growing agency. Exposure to diverse projects ranging from major public-sector programmes to global events and strategic transactions. Join a collaborative, agile culture where your expertise directly influences business decisions.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Corporate & Commercial Legal Support: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial documents, consultancy agreements, NDAs, and partnership documents across all our operating territories. Ensure compliance with local and international laws, regulations, and industry standards. Manage external counsel relationships for transactions and regulatory filings as needed. Commercial Risk Management oversight.
• Risk, Governance & Compliance: Support the development and maintenance of internal policies (including but not limited to Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity, Procurement, Data Protection, Health & Safety) to ensure legal compliance, and good governance across all operating markets. Support leadership on legal aspects of compliance, ESG, insurance, privacy, and anti-bribery frameworks. Lead on corporate registrations, board resolutions, and company secretarial work in coordination with local advisors.
• Data Protection & Privacy Oversight: Consult with Trivandi’s external Data Protection Officer, providing legal advice to the business on compliance with UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and relevant ICO guidance. Support with Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and other data subject rights requests, ensuring responses are lawful, timely, and defensible.
• Employment Relations & People Risk: Support the People Team on global employment law matters, including M&A, terminations, restructures, grievances, and risk mitigation. Support the development of People-related policies and company ethics frameworks.
• External Counsel: Collaborate with external counsel across jurisdictions to ensure efficient, value-added service delivery.

Personal Skills and Experience

• Qualified UK solicitor with 2-4 years PQE, with the ambition and curiosity to develop their skills across a broad spectrum of legal disciplines.
• Strong grounding in commercial contracting and corporate governance is essential.
• Potential and capability to work across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting senior leadership teams in fast-moving, commercially oriented environments.
• Commercially pragmatic and able to balance legal risk with business goals.

About You

The key competencies and behaviours we are looking for include:

• Ability to confidently present and communicate in both written and verbal forms, with empathy across different audiences and cultural sensitivities.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with an open, genuine, and collaborative style.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and complex processes.
• Resilient, composed under pressure, and solutions-focused.
• A hunger to learn, grow and contribute to the wider business.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and resourceful, with a strong sense of ownership.
• Loyal, displaying the highest levels of integrity and commitment.
• Flexible and adaptable in a growing, fast-moving company.