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    Trainee Lawyer - London, United Kingdom - Fastmarkets Group

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    We are supported by a working model that is based ona hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouragingeffective collaboration and accountability.

    Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world.

    We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

    With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

    Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

    You will develop these skills through supporting the Legal, Risk and Compliance function (LRC) on a wide range of tasks and projects.

    This role will start with a three-month probationary period as a paralegal before the training contract commences.

    As an in-house paralegal/trainee lawyer at Fastmarkets you will gain exposure to a wide range of legal disciples, including commercial contract drafting and negotiation, corporate law, real estate, intellectual property, anti-trust, regulatory and employment.

    We will ensure that you are appropriately supervised by solicitors and other individuals in the LRC team while you undertake your training.

    LRC is responsible for managing legal, risk, compliance, privacy, co sec and ESG on a global basis across the business.

    The General Counsel reports to the CEO and the team is viewed as a genuine business partner, critical to helping the organisation deliver its strategy.

    Support the Senior Legal Counsel across a broad range of workstreams: including commercial contracts, corporate law, real estate, intellectual property, anti-trust, regulatory and employment law, providing advice and assisting with the drafting and negotiation of contracts
    Triage of legal queries received from the Fastmarkets business, providing initial advice and guidance where appropriate
    Assist with training and the creation of appropriate guidance and resources for the business on key legal issues
    Assist with the establishment of new systems, processes and controls for the LRC team in order to improve management of legal and regulatory risk, as well as to drive efficiency

    We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve.

    Commercial awareness and a curiosity to learn about the Fastmarkets' business and the support provided to it by the Legal team
    Excellent Microsoft Office skills (particularly MS Word, Excel)
    Completion of a qualifying law degree and Legal Practice Course. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance
    We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

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