Michael Page
Legal Counsel - Open to Various Legal Practice Areas - 0-3 PQE
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Legal Counsel
Seeking a Legal Counsel to join our Corporate Legal team, reporting to the Head of Legal. The Legal Counsel will support the Corporate Legal team to deliver across all the above areas in the UK and internationally. This will involve working closely with other teams in the company, such as Finance, Commercial, People, Recruitment as well as interacting with our external law firm partners where relevant.
Client Details
A company in the business services industry located in Oxfordshire.
Description
This role will be pivotal to our team, focusing on corporate legal matters such as:
- Employment - working with our People team to advise on complex people related and global mobility queries, including complex restrictive covenant matters (relating to both outgoing and incoming senior employees)
- Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial - advising on corporate governance matters arising from our complex group structure and investment arrangements globally. Dealing with company secretarial tasks such as board minutes, resolutions, statutory filings
- Share Scheme - administering the legal aspects of our employee equity scheme including issues of shares and buy backs
- Intellectual Property - managing our intellectual property portfolio, including trademark watch notices, renewals, recording know how and digital IP assets
- Digital - advising on the commercialisation and licensing arrangements for digital solutions created for clients, including AI governance
- Data Protection - escalation point for complex data protection matters arising either from client projects or our central use of data e.g. intra-group data sharing arrangements
- Disputes and Litigation - where disputes and/or litigation arise (which could be in an employment or commercial context), advise and coordinate with external counsel where necessary
- Legal Knowledge - adding to and administering our legal knowledge base with all the knowledge we gather working on the above. This will also include regular review of our template documents and agreements, speaking to relevant stakeholders and drafting updates.
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- Qualified lawyer in either the UK or Common Law Jurisdiction with approximately 0-3 years post-qualification experience working in either a top law firm or in house legal team
- Have great attention to detail
- Have strong interpersonal skills and generally be a pleasure to work with
- Be able to work independently and on your own initiative when appropriate, though having good judgment on when to escalate
- Have excellent time management and organisational skills, particularly as you will often be working across several complex matters at once
- Be able to communicate complex concepts clearly and sufficiently to non-legal audiences, both orally and in writing
- Be able to digest large amounts of information quickly
Job Offer
- Salary ranging from £60,000 to £770,000 dependent on the level of experience.
- Profit related bonus scheme
- 28 days holiday
- Private Medical
- Life Assurance
- 4.5% matched Pension
- 2-3 days hybrid working
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