Vacancies

Our client is a Series D funded specialist e-commerce platform with offices in London and New York, which is a global leader in providing authentic goods to its loyal customers. This business has grown exponentially with a footprint in more than 60 major cities across the UK, EMEA, US, Australiasia, and APAC. The business now needs to hire its first General Counsel to report to the CFO and build a legal team to focus on the growth of this unique and highly admired business.The RoleYou will create a legal function and report to the CFO with a direct line to the CEO and board of management where you’re required to provide excellent legal commercial judgment and the ability to identify possible legal risks which may impact the business. You will hire and create a legal team to operate in multi jurisdictions and you will establish a legal panel to assist the business with its next stage of development.The CandidateThe ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10yrs PQE with training from a reputable international law firm or in-house with a leading Tech Business. Candidates with additional legal skills in Finance, Corporate Law, and non-legal expertise in business operations in a multi-jurisdictional environment would be of huge benefit. Lawyers from an e-commerce/internet industry/logistics background and having multilingual capabilities, ideally Chinese would be highly advantageous.For a confidential conversation please contact Liam Taaffe at EMEA Legal Recruitment via liam@emea.legal or 0207 183 9122   

A world-leading eCommerce platform is seeking an experienced Privacy Counsel where you’ll have ownership for German Privacy matters whilst working closely with EU Privacy Team. This opportunity is purely consumer-focused allowing you to quickly develop a real commercial sense of awareness where your judgment is required on data protection and legal advice relating to products and key business services.The RoleYou will advise the Commercial and Operations Teams on regular Data Protection and Privacy matters where specific teams will require your knowledge and input in exciting business innovation and ground-breaking projects. Although this role has a primary focus on Privacy you will regularly collaborate with the commercial IT legal team when advising and guiding business leaders. You will be part of the German legal team and work very closely with the EU Privacy team where you’ll advise on a broad range of privacy programs to safeguard from risk & compliance issues with German and EU Data Protection guidelines.The Candidate The ideal candidate will be German Qualified with a minimum of 4yrs legal experience where two years of which is gained from a leading Privacy Team of an international law firm. Candidates must have an excellent command of verbal and written English with the ability to negotiate in German and English. For this role, candidates should be capable to manage a significant number of projects autonomously in a timely manner. As they say, Common sense isn’t Common and for this role, you’ll need to display core skills of being a pragmatist with sound business judgment and a natural ability to quickly identify risks that may commercially impact the business.For further details, please contact Liam Taaffe at EMEA Legal Recruitment – liam@emea.legal

Our client is an innovative technology security US business with a focus on hardware and software solutions which are state-of-the-art and world acclaimed devices. As a result of exponential business growth across EMEA the business has a newly created Corporate Counsel opportunity to report directly to the EMEA Head of Legal. This role will have an EMEA wide focus where you’ll work as art of a team consisting of Legal Counsels and Commercial business team members, you will handle transactional legal matters and projects, research and advise on legal rights and duties whilst offering commercial pragmatic (non legal) advice.The ideal candidate will be EU qualified (2yrs+) with excellent commercial law training from a leading Law Firm and must have an impressive legal educational background. Candidates with In-house Commercial experience gained from a multinational Tech Business would be advantageous but not essential. This business is located in the heart of Amsterdam offering an excellent work/life balance and flexible working conditions. As this is a US Business there are amazing benefits and perks on offer.For more details please contact Liam Taaffe at EMEA Legal Recruitment – liam@emea.legal

Commercial / IP Legal Counsel, FMCG (Fortune 100) – Central LondonOur client is a highly admired FMCG business with flagship household products, due to exponential business growth they’re offering a newly created Legal Counsel opportunity. This candidate will provide commercial and IP advice to assist the business with the growth of its Northern Europe operations. You will report to the EMEA General Counsel and work closely with the International Legal Team on exciting projects. The work will focus on a broad variety of legal matters relating to commercial law, IP & branding, Media & Advertising, and Data protection.The ideal candidate will be UK qualified (2yrs PQE+) with excellent commercial law training from a leading UK or International Law Firm and must have an impressive legal educational background. Candidates with IP & Competition law experience gained from exposure to FMCG clients would be advantageous but not essential. This business has beautiful offices set in one of London’s most iconic office buildings, where flexible working and amazing perks are on offer.For more details please contact Liam Taaffe at EMEA Legal Recruitment – liam@emea.legal

Our client is a cloud-based payment automation software that was recently acquired by a US tech firm for €150m. This innovative fintech business has major bluechip clients across the globe and huge expected growth is on the horizon where an experienced Legal Counsel with expertise in commercial law, contract drafting, and contractual negotiations is required. You will report to the General Counsel in London along with an existing team of 5 lawyers and can work full-time remotely or from their offices located in Dublin or London.You will work as part of an excellent team of commercially-minded lawyers who have all gained extensive fintech experience where you'll be the primary lead for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating on a range of commercial and technology contracts including SAAS contracts, software development and licencing agreements, supplier and partnership agreements, data processing agreements, NDAs and consultancy agreements. This role will expose you to lots of non-Legal related work and you will be required to provide pragmatic advice to stakeholders with regards to applicable laws or regulations that may impact the business,The ideal candidate will have around 4yrs PQE with a focus on commercial IT contracts, working either in-house or for a leading law firm, The ideal candidate must have strong knowledge of contract IT law with a strong preference for lawyers with previous professional experience of the fintech sector.For further details please contact Liam Taaffe at liam@emea.legal

A leading US Technology Business with state-of-the-art offices based in the heart of London City is seeking a Legal Counsel with at least 3yrs PQE+ to support the EMEA business sales and innovation team. This amazing business offers dynamic IT infrastructure services including artificial intelligence and machine learning etc.The Role  The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising on strategic technology service agreements with enterprise customers and partners and provide legal support for local and regional services and initiatives. Typical transactions will range from standard contracts to complex, high-value agreements. The role includes participating in other legal team projects, including managing legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships and handling customer and client inquiries.The Candidate A pragmatic lawyer with at least 3yrs+ PQE who is innovative, progressive and extremely hands-on. Must be fluent in and English and be ideally UK qualified with experience in negotiating high-value IT transactions, including technology licensing agreements. This position will also you to flourish within a team of super-smart lawyers who formally practiced at International Law Firms where you will gain excellent skills and become an innovative solutions provider to ensure key clients are offered a seamless customer experience.Contact Liam Taaffe at EMEA Legal on 0207 183 9122 or email: liam@emea.legal