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Legal Counsel
Competitive Salary & benefit package | travel allowance, bonus scheme, pension, health insurance
Location: London, Docklands | Canary Wharf
Job Type: Permanent/ Full time
Starting Date: ASAP
Job Overview
We are looking for a commercially minded Legal Counsel to join our Legal team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a broad, hands-on legal role supporting colleagues across the business and providing practical legal, commercial and risk management advice.
The role is delivery-focused and involves hands-on drafting, negotiation and day-to-day legal support. With main focus on general commercial and corporate legal work, the role offers additional exposure to construction and projects matters.
About you
You will be a proactive, approachable and adaptable legal professional who enjoys building trusted relationships across a business. You will bring sound judgement, attention to detail and a solutions-focused mindset, while maintaining confidentiality and high professional standards when handling sensitive commercial and legal matters
Key tasks:
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial and construction contracts,
including industry standard customer and supplier agreements - Provide clear and commercially focused legal advice to stakeholders across the
business while highlighting any contractual risks - Support other departments in the business on contractual matters, renewals and
amendments, ensuring they are properly documented - Work collaboratively with all areas of the business, helping teams understand and
manage legal risk - Respond to internal queries on legal issues in a clear and commercially focused way
- Assist with ad hoc legal matters arising in Construction and Projects teams
- Actively contribute to the development of standard templates, precedents and legal
processes - Support the Legal team in monitoring and responding to relevant legal and
regulatory developments
Essential Requirements:
- Educated to Degree level (or equivalent) in Law, with 2-5 years of post-qualification
experience - Previous work history in commercial law, corporate, real estate, or construction law
- Transactional Expertise – Strong background in negotiating high-value, complex,
long-term contracts
How to apply
To be considered for this position, please apply online attaching your CV and Covering Letter in Office Word format. Alternatively, send your CV and Cover letter to [email protected]
If you join us at Telehouse, you’ll work with a team of experienced professionals whose job it is to keep Telehouse at the forefront of the data centre services market. We pride ourselves on a supportive, friendly workplace environment that unlocks the potential in each and every member of our team. We invest in our employees through training and development and believe in empowering our employees to work proactively. At Telehouse, you can rest assured that you’ll be working for a leading company with a proven track record for operational excellence.
Telehouse has offices in London and across the globe, and is owned by KDDI; a Global Fortune 500 telecommunications company.
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