Associate Director - Commercial Senior Legal Counsel

About the Company

Leading professional services organisation seeks Associate Director to join their highly skilled in-house legal team in London.

About the Role

An opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic team, in a varied role supporting all levels of the organisation across service lines and the full range of internal business functions. It will be to engage on both the client and supplier side with an emphasis on sell-side, providing commercial and facilitative advice with the opportunity to be the legal lead on firm-wide projects, working closely with the business.

Offering interesting and broad spread of project work (software development, systems integration, business transformation) and client contracts (engagement agreements, MSAs, GFAs), including tech, software, licensing, outsourcing, government and public sector agreements, tenders, RFP responses, supplier agreements and AI.

Qualifications

• You will have over 8 years’ PQE and proven experience as a commercial lawyer
• In-house experience is essential
• Experience and grounding from a top tier City law firm is helpful
• UK/commonwealth jurisdiction/common law jurisdiction qualification; please note visa sponsorship is not offered

Required Skills

• Demonstrable experience of negotiating, drafting and advising across a range of commercial contracts, preferably within a professional services environment or similar.

Attributes

• The ideal candidate will be versatile, efficient, credible, persuasive, with the ability to prioritise and adapt to changing circumstances in a fast-paced environment

Hybrid working, excellent salary and benefits package on offer.