Legal Counsel, Legal Leasing, EMEA

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Overview

The Legal Counsel, Legal Leasing, EMEA is responsible for legal support of customer agreements in EMEA, including data centre leases, service agreements, and related documents. In addition to providing excellent legal expertise and support, the Legal Counsel, Legal Leasing, EMEA brings a proactive, business-minded, and solution-oriented approach to legal matters, a commercial lens, and a proven ability to work collaboratively across the organization. Ideal candidates for this role will have data centre expertise, in-house or law firm experience, strong business acumen, enterprise leadership, passion for growing a business, and experience in continuous improvement and driving enhancements that benefit the Company.

Essential Job Functions

• Legal Guidance and Negotiation: Provide legal guidance and negotiation expertise for data centre transactions in EMEA. Draft and negotiate data centre agreements with hyperscale, large wholesale, and enterprise customers, including lease agreements, colocation agreements, development agreements, master service agreements, service orders, non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent, subordination, non-disturbance, and attornment agreements, tenant order forms, change orders, and related documents. Draft commencement notices, delay notices, and other correspondence relating to customer agreements. Prepare summaries and abstracts of customer agreements and provide guidance on the terms of customer agreements. Provide legal guidance with respect to compliance initiatives for customer agreements. Provide proactive and strategic-level advice that enables Vantage to achieve its business and strategic objectives while fully and appropriately managing and leveraging legal risk.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to gather input and consensus on technical, operational, and compliance aspects of data centre transactions. Serve as a strategic partner by providing practical, business-focused, and sound legal advice to EMEA Sales, Finance, Corporate Development, and Operations teams.
• Contract Management and Compliance: Assist with the development of and updates to customer-related agreement templates and provide counselling on the use of such templates. Provide legal analysis of customer agreements in support of certain business development and financing transactions, including document review and due diligence. Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to customer agreements.
• Customer Relationship Management: Assist with legal matters involving customer relationships. Support the development, implementation, and management of methodology improvements in the customer negotiation process and resolve legal issues that arise in existing customer relationships. Support global legal strategy for customer agreements, including contract management and governance.

Job Requirements

• Education: Qualified solicitor in England and Wales, ideally with 3–5 years’ PQE or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience: Experience within the data centre industry strongly preferred. Experience advising on, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, leases, service agreements, or other complex transaction documents. Experience handling complex contracts with detailed technical specifications. Experience managing and organizing large deals/projects simultaneously under deadline pressure. Working knowledge of commercial real estate.
• Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills. Detail-oriented with excellent organization, analytical, and project management skills. Agile and adaptable to keep up with customer and business objectives, with a solution-oriented mindset. Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork and the ability to foster/manage relationships across multiple departments. Comfortable working with technology, AI-enabled tools, dashboards, databases, and structured contract data. Practical, business-oriented approach to legal risk and contract compliance. Strong customer-service orientation and ability to support internal stakeholders with clarity and responsiveness. Ability to operate independently while staying closely aligned with the Legal Leasing team. Energized by building new processes, improving visibility, and helping a fast-growing global business scale responsibly.

Want to find out more about the Legal Department?

The Legal team is responsible for managing the company's legal affairs from compliance through litigation, collaborating with departments such as Sales, Operations, Human Resources, and Innovation along the way. The Legal team also works closely with external law firms to develop a comprehensive legal strategy and manages these partners to address issues efficiently and effectively. Unlike many other companies where legal roles are purely advisory, Vantage distinguishes itself by granting our legal staff the authority to directly influence business decisions. This empowers our internal team to align legal strategies with long-term operational goals, risk management, and cost efficiency to deliver outcomes that support corporate objectives. This approach allows each team member to make significant, impactful decisions, driving substantial results for the company.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations. Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values. Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.