Commercial In-house Lawyer

• Advising business stakeholders across all departments on legal and commercial risk and proposing commercially focused solutions to ensure any potential legal/contractual risks are identified and mitigated;
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts including agreements relating to hardware, software licensing, services, IT support and end user license agreements;
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating customer, supplier and consultancy agreements;
• Managing legal aspects of reseller arrangements and managed service contract;
• Drafting and advising on data centre contracts and cloud service contracts;
• Working closely with product and sales teams to draft and negotiate contracts for business products and services;
• Managing contractual processes from RFP to implementation;
• Advising the businesses in respect of any disputes brought by or against any of the companies and managing litigation where required;
• Reviewing and drafting telecommunications agreements such as interconnect agreements, wholesale agreements and roaming agreements;

• Qualified lawyer in any of the United Kingdom, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man (or another jurisdiction of near equivalent basis, e.g., Ireland, other EU);
• A minimum of 6 years' post qualification experience (PQE);
• Excellent drafting skills;
• Experience in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.

• Post qualification in-house experience preferably in the telecoms or technology industries;
• Data protection experience;
• Experience in dispute resolution/litigation;
• Experience of working within a regulated environment is preferred (not necessarily in telecoms, e.g., experience in other regulated industries such as financial services)
• Commercially focused and willing and able to work alone and progress projects with business and commercial input;
• Ability to effectively prioritise and manage expectations associated with the wide scope and scale of competing and diverse requirements of the businesses and departments;
• Ability to explain data protection requirements to non-specialists;
• Good communication skills with ability to explain impact of legal issues;

Your specialist: Anne Murray

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