Senior Sports Lawyer - Leeds, United Kingdom - OPTIMAL RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED

OPTIMAL RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
OPTIMAL RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
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Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Our client is a firm of specialist solicitors, who pride themselves on being approachable and friendly and getting the right result.

They empower clients to make decisions in their cases with the knowledge and understanding they need.

The firm has been recentlybought out and is now expanding into new areas of legal services bringing the top lawyers together from across the country.


We are now supporting their search for a new Senior Sports Lawyer to support their growth within the Sports Law Team.


This role will see you advising on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, including transactional work, M&A, corporate advisory, private equity, re-organizations, player transfer funding/finance/discounting transactions, club ownership relatedissues, general company secretarial matters, football transactional documentation, commercial rights agreements (including sponsorship, licensing, broadcast and other content exploitation), and general commercial contracts and advice.


You will be required to work closely with the firm's partners on a range of high quality corporate and commercial matters to highly regarded and well-known sports and media clients.


You must have good experience working on a variety of corporate / commercial cases and experience advising on sports and media related matters is desirable, but not necessary.


You are likely to be a partner or an ambitious experienced lawyer with partnership aspirations, you need to be self-motivated with the drive and ability to lead and develop a small team whilst maintaining your own caseload.


Department:
Sports Law Team

Location:
Can be based in Portsmouth, Leeds, or on a work-from-home basis.

  • Qualified Sports Lawyer with current practicing certificate 5 years PQE+
  • Experience working on a variety of corporate / commercial cases
  • Experience advising on sports and media related matters
  • Have a strong desire to build a team and a high performing function
  • Be technically competent
  • Have excellent client care skills and the ability to manage client's expectations
  • Be proactive with good interpersonal skills
  • Be able to build a strong Sports Law Team
  • You will need a good understanding of the SRA Code of Conduct and other regulatory requirements
  • Have proven track record of providing proactive, consistent and efficient client services
  • At least five years' experience of working within a busy commercial team
  • Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and department targets
  • Ability to provide the highest standard of client care
  • To have excellent written and verbal communication
  • Team management experience
  • Problem solving skills
  • Attention to detail, good organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload
We also have some great benefits.

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Fully flexible remote working environment
  • Company pension
  • Growing and developing environment which is truly different to the legal norm
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