Senior Legal Counsel - Global Media Business

Senior Legal Counsel (Commercial) | Global Media Business | London

An international market-leading PLC is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join its high-performing global legal team. This is a commercially focused role supporting strategic business activity across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular emphasis on complex client and commercial agreements.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, commercial teams and business leaders, you will play a key role in negotiating, structuring and advising on high-value transactions while helping the business navigate an evolving regulatory landscape.

This is a broad, deal-focused commercial legal position where you will:

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• Lead negotiations on complex client, supplier and strategic commercial agreements.
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• Provide pragmatic legal advice to commercial, sales and business development teams.
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• Support major client pitches, contract renewals and revenue-generating initiatives.
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• Advise on a range of legal and regulatory issues including data privacy, AI, IP and contractual risk.
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• Partner with colleagues across an international legal function to ensure consistency of approach and best practice.
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• Help mitigate legal and commercial risk while enabling business growth.
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We are interested in speaking with lawyers who can demonstrate:

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• 8+ years' PQE who have trained in private practice with some in-house experience (either now working in-house or as a secondment) with a background in corporate or commercial law.
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• Strong experience drafting, negotiating and advising on complex commercial contracts.
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• Proven ability to lead negotiations and manage sophisticated commercial transactions independently.
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• Working knowledge of contract law, data privacy, intellectual property and emerging technology issues.
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• Confidence operating in a fast-paced, international business environment.
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This is an excellent opportunity to join a global business with a collaborative and highly respected legal team. The role offers a varied international workload, and the chance to work on commercially important matters within a dynamic and evolving sector. If this sounds like it might be of interest, apply here or email [email protected] for more information.