Rutherford
Senior Legal Counsel
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The Role
We are looking for a senior, commercially minded lawyer to join the legal team and become a key partner to the business. This is a broad in-house role, with significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to take ownership of a wide range of legal matters.
The ideal candidate will be someone the business can genuinely lean on — comfortable operating autonomously, getting close to the commercial issues, and providing practical advice in a fast-moving environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and negotiate complex customer and supply chain agreements, including commercial contracts with customers, suppliers, vendors, and strategic partners.
- Advise on a broad range of commercial technology matters, including technology procurement, SaaS, software, services, licensing, and related agreements.
- Advise on legal and regulatory matters arising from the company's operations and growth.
- Support the business on compliance matters, including anti-bribery and corruption, modern slavery, and broader corporate compliance.
- Provide advice on corporate governance, including board and corporate matters.
- Manage and develop the company's trademark and IP portfolio.
- Partner closely with commercial, procurement, operations, technology, and business leadership teams.
- Work alongside the business on strategic projects, new market expansion, and other matters as the company scales.
- Help continue to build and mature the company's in-house legal infrastructure and processes.
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Experience
- 7–10+ years PQE, with strong relevant post-qualification experience.
- Strong background in commercial and technology law, ideally gained within a sophisticated law firm and/or in-house environment.
- Meaningful experience negotiating customer, supplier, procurement, technology, and commercial agreements.
- Strong in-house experience is preferred, particularly within a fast-growing or technology-led business.
- Data center / digital infrastructure experience is preferred but not essential.
- Lawyers from adjacent sectors such as technology, telecoms, energy infrastructure, construction, or real estate may also be relevant, particularly where they have significant customer or supply-chain exposure.
- Comfortable advising senior stakeholders and operating with a high degree of autonomy.
- Commercially minded, pragmatic, and able to balance legal risk with business objectives.
- Strong communication skills and the character to operate as a trusted advisor to the business.
- Experience with compliance, corporate governance, and IP/trademarks would be advantageous.
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