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Job Title: Legal Counsel
Location: London
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Salary Circa: £120,000
Leading independent commercial insurance broking and risk advisory group. It has grown rapidly across the UK and Europe.
The Role
- Looking to add to its legal function with an experienced Legal Counsel. In situ you will report directly to the Group General Counsel and have regular interaction with senior decision makers within the organisation.
This role will be a very hands-on, based at the organisations head office in the City of London with flexible working, covering the following legal workstreams:
- Commercial - drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, IT service agreements, NDAs,
- engagement letters and insurer / binding authority agreements.
- IP - liaising with IP lawyers and internal teams to manage the group's global trademarks.
- M&A - assisting with legal due diligence and contract negotiation.
- Finance - supporting with security take ups, on-boarding and intra-group lending.
- Capital structure: overseeing the group's corporate and capital structure and managing internal
- capital (debt and equity) movements.
- Integration - supporting the Group's project teams to integrate newly acquired companies' post-
- acquisition and managing the ongoing group entity rationalisation project.
- Litigation - liaising with external counsel and internal teams on contentious matters.
Experience:
- 5+ PQE with experience in commercial law working in the financial services sector. This is a role for someone who is 'great across the board' and can deal with a wide variety of differing legal issues daily.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a real ability to relate to colleagues from different cultures and backgrounds.
- The role also requires a strong commercial awareness, the need to be highly organised with a resilient 'can do' nature.
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