Job Description

We are working on an exciting opportunity with a multi national start-up organisation dealing at the forefront of UK Telecommunications. They are looking for an exceptional Legal Counsel based in central London to join its excellent legal team.

Operating within a small team, you will work across a variety of legal, company secretarial, regulatory and commercial areas, including: commercial contracts, wholesale telecoms contracts, telecoms regulatory, network security, company secretarial activities and M&A.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Working in a high growth, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment, focused on highest standards of implementation and delivery.
• Working closely with the General Counsel and Legal Director and partnering across technical and operational business teams as well as with external stakeholders and advisers.
• Identifying and managing legal risk and escalating clearly and precisely to stakeholders where appropriate.
• Assisting with the management of a number of core outsourcing and construction arrangements of high fiscal value
• Assisting with telecoms regulatory and industry reporting obligations
• Assisting with the management of a concentrated number of high value telecoms wholesale commercial contracts
• Company secretarial duties.
• Staying business informed and up to date with legal and regulatory developments and trends and the fostering of excellence and best practice.

• Degree level education / relevant professional qualifications
• 2-4 years PQE
• Experience of corporate and commercial law
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Solutions orientated and able to simplify complex matters
• Self-sufficient, comfortable with working autonomously as well as in cross-functional teams; acts as business adviser to management
• Ability to multitask and to work calmly and quickly under pressure with high energy levels and a great work ethic
• Strong commercial acumen, together with the ability and creditability to form effective relationships across all levels
• Strong moral/ethical convictions

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