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Legal Counsel (Property)
Permanent
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MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL's mission is to provide best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and Three for serving their tens of millions of customers in the UK. Working at MBNL means being part of a team where you feel connected, valued, and supported.
The MBNL in-house legal team provides commercially focused and efficient legal solutions together with risk management support across all areas of the business from property to procurement. The team are responsible for a range of activities including delivering robust and legally sound contracts; dispute resolution and management; and supporting the wider Property & Legal function on all aspects of property acquisition, disposal, and estate management.
The Legal Counsel (Property) will be responsible for providing high quality, nimble and commercially focused transactional property, and property litigation support in relation to ongoing management of a network in excess of 20,000 sites.
Responsibilities of the Legal Counsel (Property) include:
- Advise the business on general litigation/property/telecoms issues and general estate management queries.
- Analyse legal rights and provide strategic commercially focused advice and/or negotiating (where applicable) with the Site Providers and/or their solicitor.
- Deliver excellent legal solutions on target and to budget ensuring external legal spend is effective and efficient.
- Manage external lawyers appointed by MBNL to include approving documentation and ensuring that the external lawyers deliver: (a) to agreed strategy, standards, and service levels; (b) within defined timescales; (c) to budget; and (d) with added value and provide reporting / management information as required by MBNL.
- Assist with establishing and constantly improving effective and efficient processes and policies, particularly with regard to leveraging the Electronic Communications Code
- Support and facilitate project activities/deliverables on all sites
- Work closely with property colleagues to support their business requirements
The successful Legal Counsel (Property) will have:
- A UK/Dual Qualified solicitor/legal executive
- 0 to 3 years PQE (or equivalent)
- Experience of Real Estate and/or Real Estate Litigation or a proven desire to move into this area of law
- Ideally some in-house experience, but will consider candidates from a private practice background with a desire to move in-house
- Ability to handle large workloads and to adapt and learn new skills
- Excellent communication, Drafting and Negotiating skills
- Ability to work well and thrive under pressure
- Organised, efficient, enthusiastic, and resilient
- An ability to work in a rapidly changing environment with complex and occasionally challenging relationships
Nice to Have:
- Volume portfolio management
- Experience of implementing process change
- High volume dispute resolution / litigation experience
- Health and Safety / Regulatory experience
- Telecoms experience
To apply for the Legal Counsel (Property) please send your CV to (url removed)
Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
