Legal jobs in London

What you would do

• Lead and manage all technical and operational aspects of a key site contract, ensuring financial, compliance and performance targets are met.
• Oversee site Health & Safety and safe working practices.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Support the Helpdesk to achieve high customer satisfaction and maintain client relationships, attending monthly client meetings.
• Provide Weekly Flash Reports to clients and internal management.
• Oversee PPM planning for technical systems, ensuring works follow manufacturer guidelines and HVCA SFG20.

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• Oversee and maintain the firm's compliance framework in accordance with FCA rules and applicable legislation.
• Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on the business.
• Develop and deliver the annual Compliance Monitoring Plan and ensure timely remediation of identified issues.
• Provide practical regulatory advice to senior management on investments and crypto products and business initiatives.
• Act as a primary contact for the FCA and other relevant regulatory bodies.
• Own Consumer Duty oversight.

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• Work alongside Real Estate fee earning lawyers on live client matters to design, test and refine AI enabled ways of delivering legal services.
• Turn stakeholder requests into scoped, risk aware and commercially grounded plans with defined deliverables and timelines.
• Identify and shape new AI enabled products and services based on live matter experience, client feedback and market insight.
• Act as a client facing voice on AI, explaining AI enabled delivery models, pricing, risk management and governance.
• Champion the adoption of generative AI tools and new workflows across the Real Estate practice group.
• Track developments in AI and legal technology and translate them into practical improvements to services, processes and knowledge assets.

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• Implement client contracting policies and processes.
• Review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts with suppliers, subcontractors and other commercial agreements.
• Provide legal support to the client's internal business team.
• Answer contract-related queries and draft relevant agreements.
• Interpret and ensure compliance with risk management policies.
• Report and collect legal data as needed.

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• Provide strategic leadership to a team of around 11 legal professionals, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting colleagues to reach their full potential.
• Lead the development, continuous improvement and effective management of the Contracts function, ensuring an efficient, responsive and customer-focused legal service.
• Deliver proactive, expert legal advice on complex contracts, procurement, commercial and governance matters to Members, senior officers and corporate leadership.
• Shape corporate decision-making through strategic legal advice on high-profile and politically sensitive matters.
• Manage resources, budgets and external legal spend to deliver value for money whilst maintaining exceptional professional standards.
• Drive innovation, service improvement and collaboration across Legal Services and the wider organisation.

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What you would do

• Negotiating, reviewing and drafting commercial, technology and supplier contracts.
• Providing pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice to stakeholders on data protection, contract law and other specialisms.
• Supporting legal risk management and embedding best practice legal processes.
• Advising on legal and regulatory developments and their impact on the organisation.
• Supporting delivery of business-wide projects, including implementation of legal and regulatory changes.
• Managing relationships with external legal advisers.

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• Provide general legal advice to brokerage trading desks on the sale and distribution of derivatives, structured products, equities, and bonds to professional and retail clients.
• Advise equity and fixed income traders on trading matters including IPO distribution, secondary market sales, and private transactions.
• Negotiate and advise on trading documentation such as ISDA Master Agreements, structured products programmes, and F&O agreements.
• Monitor and advise on regulatory developments in the UK and EU (EMIR, Dodd-Frank, MiFID II) affecting product structuring and marketing.
• Advise on crypto-related market initiatives and policy developments for the crypto-linked Private Bank business.
• Develop policies, procedures, and controls for existing and new products.

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• Provide specialist legal support to the Shipping business and other teams in Supply, Trading & Shipping.
• Advise on regulatory and compliance matters including sanctions and trade laws.
• Draft and review charterparty clauses.
• Handle vessel and crew management issues including crew employment.
• Advise on trade laws, anti-corruption and competition law, and international shipping regulations including emissions legislation.
• Support CDD programmes and counterparty clearances.

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• Provide strategic and day-to-day legal counsel across commercial, regulatory, and operational matters for UK and EU teams.
• Build UK and EU employment playbooks and policies.
• Support onboarding, terminations, restructures, and performance issues across multiple jurisdictions.
• Advise on GDPR, data subject rights, transfer mechanisms, and cookie compliance.
• Advise on marketing practices, pricing strategies, sustainability claims, and consumer protection regulation.
• Draft, review, and negotiate vendor contracts, logistics agreements, SaaS licenses, and supplier agreements end-to-end.

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• Provide comprehensive legal counsel on the whole employee lifecycle (recruiting, hiring, promotions, development, employee relations, discipline, terminations, retirement).
• Draft, review and negotiate HR-related legal documents.
• Support employment aspects of corporate restructurings, acquisitions and dispositions.
• Develop and improve local and global templates, policies, processes and best practices for HR teams.
• Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements including pay equity, discrimination prevention, wage and hour issues, workplace safety, data protection and global mobility.
• Monitor and report on developments in laws and regulations.

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• Advise global teams (compliance, finance, product, engineering, marketing, HR) on financial services requirements, payments, outsourcing, data privacy, IP, employment law, financial crime, disputes, litigation and corporate governance.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements including service contracts, outsourcing agreements, SaaS agreements and complex payment services documentation.
• Review marketing materials for legal and regulatory compliance, IP protection and necessary disclosures.
• Assess and advise on legal risks and propose effective legal solutions.
• Support global BAU legal operations and intra-group matters.
• Conduct legal research on cryptocurrency, payments and blockchain regulations and advise the business on emerging risks.

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• Negotiating and drafting agreements for distribution of entertainment and news channels, direct-to-consumer offerings and brands across EMEA and Asia.
• Negotiating and drafting content acquisition, advertising and sponsorship agreements, and advising on marketing and consumer law issues.
• Acting as primary legal adviser for the International Media Distribution business representing third-party foreign language channels for US distribution.
• Assisting on project work and product launches.
• Advising the business on legislative and regulatory developments in EMEA and Asia Pacific, including copyright, advertising and compliance matters.
• Collaborating with specialist IP, Litigation, Privacy and Employment lawyers.

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• Providing general counsel and strategic legal support to the EMEA M&A business across a wide range of issues and at various levels of seniority.
• Reviewing, advising on, and negotiating M&A advisory related documentation, including engagement letters and confidentiality agreements, and advising on conflicts management.
• Attending business review committees and valuation/fairness opinion committees as representative of the M&A Legal team, reviewing valuation and fairness opinions.
• Co-ordinating with other CIB Legal teams (such as Equity/Debt Capital Markets) and with external counsel as required.
• Interacting with M&A, Industry, and Country Coverage investment bankers, as well as Client Executives, on transactions where J.P.
• Morgan in EMEA acts in an M&A advisory role.

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• Provide commercial employment legal advice to HR and managers in the UK and support regional offices.
• Manage external HR legal advice and costs, including employee litigation and disputes.
• Develop and manage employment-related documentation and policies across EMEA.
• Advise on settlement agreements and negotiations.
• Support HRBPs and businesses through change management, restructures and integration.
• Handle employment tribunal litigation including document review, bundle preparation and witness statement drafting.

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• Provide strategic employment law advice across APAC and EMEA jurisdictions to HR and business leaders.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and advise on legal risk mitigation and compliance controls.
• Lead and manage employee litigation matters in partnership with external counsel.
• Advise on sensitive internal investigations.
• Partner with People Partners and Employee Relations on labour law matters including workforce consultations, works council engagement, and restructuring.
• Support organisational change and restructuring projects with legal risk assessment.

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• Serve as primary legal partner to Product, Engineering, Security, Commercial, Partnerships, and Marketing teams on new products, features, data uses, and integrations.
• Act as Deputy Privacy Officer, leading and operationalizing the global privacy program and liaising with Booking Holdings on privacy strategy and governance.
• Advise on global privacy and data protection requirements, embedding privacy-by-design into products and operations.
• Provide strategic legal guidance on AI development, deployment, and procurement, including generative AI and AI governance frameworks.
• Counsel Product teams on product development, launch, and sunsetting, focusing on privacy, cybersecurity, data ownership, consumer protection, and marketing risks.
• Partner with Information Security on cybersecurity matters including vendor security risk, incident response, data breaches, and remediation.

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• Provide commercially focused legal advice on commercial contracts (D2C and B2B), intellectual property, new product development, procurement, and supply-chain matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate technology (SaaS), procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing agreements.
• Lead legal support for new product development, advising on regulatory, labelling, IP, and supply considerations for consumer health and beauty products.
• Advise on consumer protection compliance, specifically the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) in the UK.
• Review and negotiate B2B contracts and supervise D2C Terms & Conditions across brands and markets.
• Manage low-risk litigation matters and coordinate external legal counsel.

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• Provide regulatory advice on cross-border distribution, product-related compliance, and local regulatory requirements for EMEA and LatAm distribution offices.
• Act as subject-matter expert for cross-border distribution across Europe and Latin America, including private placement exemptions and reverse inquiry frameworks.
• Deliver day-to-day compliance support to European and LatAm distribution offices regarding local regulatory obligations and regulatory engagement.
• Support integration and harmonisation of compliance standards across EMEA.
• Develop, implement and maintain policies and procedures relating to distribution activities.
• Monitor regulatory developments in Europe and LatAm and translate them into practical controlled processes.

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What you would do

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial and employment agreements, including senior agent employment agreements, consultancy, service, introducer, partnership agreements and NDAs.
• Drafting and negotiating complex bonus and commission structures with the Finance team.
• Advising on sensitive issues and instructing external specialist legal counsel.
• Assisting with acquisitions and strategic transactions, including acqui-hire agreements, bid letters, letters of intent, due diligence review and transaction document negotiation.
• Advising on regional compliance including anti-bribery, AML, data protection and international sanctions.
• Overseeing drafting and negotiation of talent representation, endorsement and appearance agreements.

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• Lead legal workstreams for strategic business development and licensing transactions.
• Structure, negotiate, and draft complex commercial and transactional agreements.
• Provide legal guidance throughout due diligence, signing, closing, and integration activities.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, and transaction-related risks.
• Partner with business, strategy, finance, tax, and people teams to deliver deal objectives.
• Advise senior stakeholders on legal and commercial considerations impacting transactions.

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