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Senior Commercial Lawyer
Senior Commercial Lawyer – London
About the Role
The Commercial Legal team at Baringa is seeking an experienced Senior Commercial Lawyer to join them. This role will involve leading and managing a team of commercial lawyers, providing specialised legal and commercial support across high-stakes deals—particularly in digital contracts (data, technology delivery, AI, cloud, etc.).
Prime responsibilities:
- Lead a dedicated team of lawyers, allocating workloads, managing performance, and fostering professional development.
- Partner with partners and senior leadership to guide critical commercial agreements, including One-off Services Agreements, Framework Agreements, Licence Agreements, and Sub-contracts.
- Drive robust contract risk assessment, identifying escalations and proactively updating Contract Risk Scorecards.
- Collaborate with Baringa Enablement (People, Finance, Data, IT, Infosec, etc.) and align contracts with evolving business needs.
- Train and coach junior colleagues while ensuring best-practice precedents and tech-integrated processes (e.g., CLM tools).
This is a strategic seat: furthering client trust via sharp legal execution while shaping how Baringa manages risk.
Responsibilities
Leadership and Team
- Manage a team of commercial lawyers, aligning their growth with personal and professional development.
- Set and prioritise deliverables—balancing individual workloads while upholding quality and deadlines.
- Develop legal precedents, playbooks and training materials that elevate team capability across tech-focused client work.
Contract Leadership
- Lead negotiation and drafting of key contracts, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives:
- Data, tech and AI deals
- Cloud-based provisions
- Risk allocation and disputed clauses
- Conduct contract due diligence, advising senior stakeholders on escalated contractual positions and proposing remediation.
- Ensure compliance with risk assessments and insurance coverage limits via liaison with brokers.
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Advisory and Innovation
- Offer client-facing risk intelligence, translating legal and regulatory nuances into actionable advice.
- Contribute to commercial policies—datalectual property (including IP implications) and corporate regulatory compliance within AI/data delivery frameworks.
- Demonstrate a pragmatic approach across deals, blending commercial urgency with ethical or regulatory constraints.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Solicitor (England & Wales) or equivalent with 6+ years post-qualification experience across commercial law.
- Substantial proficiency in digital contracting, including familiarity with:
- Data governance frameworks (gdpr, CCPA)
- Cloud service agreements (e.g., AWS, Azure SLA nuances)
- Emerging technologies (AI liability, algorithmic transparency)
- Proven expertise negotiating with large international counsel, banks, or corporations.
Core Competencies
- Negotiation & Influencing
- Handle high-stakes discussions involving multinationals and in-house/third-party legal teams.
- Technical Risk & Strategy
- Grasp cybersecurity (NsC), infosec breaches impacts, privacy risks, and evolving regulations.
- Work with Baringa’s tech centric business lines (Beyond process automation; into **AI, blockchain, ethyl)
- Leadership & Development
- Synthesise experience from managing projects and multiple direct reports in legal functions.
- Actions a “scaling” mindset: Improving speed and integrity of commercial law delivery across the firm.
- Innovation in Legal Practice
- Embrace new technologies: legal databases, AI-assisted contract drafting, and document management systems.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in tech, pharma, or public sector legal teams.
- Cross-sector leveraged training initiatives with gen Z/millennial legal professionals.
- Strategic risk evolution: e.g., advising senior teams through ESG framework implications in contracts.
Our Commitment to You
Award-Winning Culture
You’ll join one of the world’s leading management consultancies, ranked as a Great Place To Work due to:
- 20+ FT “Leading Consultancy” awards (Philip Green Award for HR excellence).
- Forbes World’s Best Management Consulting Firms for consecutive years.
People-First Benefits
Wellbeing | Our values centre on growth and sustainable energy
- 5 weeks core annual leave + £5K recharge benefit after 5 years, locked or prorated.
- 3 enforced corporate responsibility days to work with social/environmental organisations [options available].
Flexibility & Mundane Career Support
- Hybrid binding hours offer flexibility tailored to personal/operational needs.
- Competitive group profit share scheme—dividend from client projects.
Diversity & Purpose
- “Level playing field”: Payscale grounded on skill/brigade Adrian- ranking methodology for colossal indulgence.
- Keystone & allyship: Constant enhancements to inclusivity ( and gender bias via corporate units).
Choose a workplace that values collaboration, curiosity and commercial drive. Now, focus on above casual discussions and reflect rigor to your technical bumps.
Apply—every candidate is individually evaluated (use canvass reservation or direct mail to access artisanal counseling on final circulation).
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