Senior Legal Counsel
- Employer
- Taylor Root
- Location
- England, London
- Closing date
- 10 Jun 2022
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Experience Level
- Mid Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Company/Commercial, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Data Protection
Job Details
Senior Legal Counsel (Commercial)
London or Remote
A truly innovative tech-start up is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to influence the business and facilitate expansion across the globe. Their unique approach has quickly established them as one of the most exciting tech companies in Africa. The company has expanded exponentially in the past 12 months, expanding into several African regions, as well as across the globe. This technology is having a positive effect on mobility and transforming the lives of thousands who can earn a new source of income. This is an exciting start-up with products and services that offer huge potential.
Reporting to the General Counsel, you will have a varied role with the opportunity to be involved in a broad range of commercial, data privacy and IP matters, as well as regulatory and licensing issues relevant to the business's local markets.
The work would include:
- Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts
- Providing legal and regulatory advice to departments across the organisation
- Advising on the impact of specific legal issues that could impact the company
- Line management responsibility for Junior Legal Counsel as the legal team grows
You must be a UK qualified lawyer who is ideally 5-8 PQE. To be considered for this position you must be a strong commercial lawyer who ideally has in-house experience at a start-up. This role will cover many areas so the person must have a broad skill set and be able to handle business operations. Experience in a Fintech or Tech start-up/scale up would be advantageous.
This is a wonderful opportunity for an ambitious individual who wants to influence a tech start-up during its rapid growth stage. As this is a newly created role, you will be able to define the remit.
Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.
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Company
Established in the 1980s, Taylor Root is now widely recognised as being one of the world’s leading legal recruiters. Operating out of offices in the UK, Dubai, Asia and Australia, we are ideally placed to assist law firms, banks and companies with their legal recruitment on an international basis. Taylor Root has a strong track record in the recruitment of: Heads of legal and legal advisers; Law firm associates and partners; Contract/locum lawyers; Paralegals; Company secretaries and Compliance professionals.
We regularly recruit for positions in all of the following regions: Western and Eastern Europe; The Middle East; Asia including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, mainland China and Bangkok; Australia and New Zealand, across The Caribbean and Offshore locations. .
In areas such as Project Finance, Derivatives or Capital Markets, where an international search is appropriate, our offices aim to provide truly global coverage and deliver a comprehensive candidate shortlist.
Through hard work, a professional and ethical approach, and not being afraid to be objective, Taylor Root continues to foster excellent, long-term candidate and client relationships throughout all of its offices.
Taylor Root is a member of The SR Group. The SR Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy dedicated to raising standards in the business environments that we serve. The sectors we cover include tax, legal, human resources, marketing, professional support and executive search, dealing with a substantial number of the world's leading professional partnerships, multi-national corporations and international banking groups as well as small to medium sized developing organisations.
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Dubai, UAE
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Hong Kong
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Singapore 049712
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Melbourne
Victoria, 3000
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