Kingsley Green Recruitment
Senior Legal Counsel - Global Media Business
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Senior Legal Counsel (Commercial) | Global Media Business | London
An international market-leading PLC is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join its high-performing global legal team. This is a commercially focused role supporting strategic business activity across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular emphasis on complex client and commercial agreements.
Working closely with senior stakeholders, commercial teams, and business leaders, you will play a key role in negotiating, structuring, and advising on high-value transactions while helping the business navigate an evolving regulatory landscape.
This is a broad, deal-focused commercial legal position where you will:
- Lead negotiations on complex client, supplier, and strategic commercial agreements.
- Provide pragmatic legal advice to commercial, sales, and business development teams.
- Support major client pitches, contract renewals, and revenue-generating initiatives.
- Advise on a range of legal and regulatory issues including data privacy, AI, IP, and contractual risk.
- Partner with colleagues across an international legal function to ensure consistency of approach and best practice.
- Help mitigate legal and commercial risk while enabling business growth.
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We are interested in speaking with lawyers who can demonstrate:
- 8+ years' PQE who have trained in private practice with some in-house experience (either now working in-house or as a secondment) with a background in corporate or commercial law.
- Strong experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex commercial contracts.
- Proven ability to lead negotiations and manage sophisticated commercial transactions independently.
- Working knowledge of contract law, data privacy, intellectual property, and emerging technology issues.
- Confidence operating in a fast-paced, international business environment.
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This is an excellent opportunity to join a global business with a collaborative and highly respected legal team. The role offers a varied international workload, and the chance to work on commercially important matters within a dynamic and evolving sector. If this sounds like it might be of interest, apply here or email thinchliffe@kgglobal.co.uk for more information.
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