Lead Counsel - Greater London, United Kingdom - Handle Recruitment

    Handle Recruitment
    Handle Recruitment Greater London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    A leading entertainment business is looking for a Lead Counsel, International. This is a newly created role, working on Commercial, Corporate and Compliance matters to manage and mitigate risk, ensure compliance with local laws and company policies, and handle a broad range of general legal matters.

    This is a multi-disciplinary role, including general commercial matters; data protection and privacy; regulatory and compliance; media operations; Corporate/M and, when required, contentious matters and dispute resolution – all of which across all business verticals.

    Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

    · Drafting and negotiating a range of commercial agreements, in collaboration with other legal colleagues

    · Assisting with contentious matters arising from international offices

    · Assisting the risk and compliance function, including work relating to AML, Data Privacy and local regulatory issues

    · Partnering closely with commercial and legal colleagues, including senior business stakeholders internationally

    Much more information will made available upon request by suitable candidates.

    To be considered, you should have both corporate and commercial experience and be comfortable working internationally and across complex, matrixed organisations. Ideally, you'll have experience with compliance and data privacy matters; and entertainment industry experience would be a significant advantage. You'll be a UK qualified solicitor with c.10yrs PQE – but this should be taken as a guide only.

    Our clients are committed to inclusion and diversity; are proud to provide equal opportunity workplaces; and on their behalf, we will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender assignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.

    Interested candidates should send their CV to Nick Wasserman for consideration. All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 working days of application. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, though, we are not always able to respond directly to everyone, but we will try our very best.