Commercial Legal Counsel

World Wide Technology; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT systems integrator in Greater London seeks a Counsel for Global Accounts to support licensing and sales transactions. The role involves negotiating complex agreements, providing legal advice to executives, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Candidates should have experience in transactional law, particularly technology contracts, and possess strong communication skills. This remote position includes occasional travel to the London office and offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic legal team.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts.
• Must be proactive and able to provide innovative solutions.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Support legal compliance with local and international laws.
• Advise senior executives on contracting issues.
• Manage relationships and handle pre-litigation inquiries.

Skills

Transactional legal experience

Technology contracts

Data privacy

Licensing knowledge

Effective communication

Education

Licensed to practice law in England and Wales

2+ years PQE

Tools

Salesforce-integrated CLMs

AI legal tools

Job description

Counsel, Global Accounts

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a growing, dynamic, friendly legal department of a fast-paced IT systems integrator, supporting outbound licensing and sales transactions for the company’s commercial customers. Our legal team keeps pace with a rapidly growing and evolving company, providing practical advice while achieving business results.

This position will be remote, with some travel to the London office required. The role reports directly to the Associate General Counsel – Global Accounts. The successful candidate will have experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating complex transactional contracts and must be prepared to negotiate and drive strategic transactions and a significant volume of sales/revenue agreements. The candidate will also support compliance with local and international laws, rules, and regulations, as applicable, and will create and train employees on company policies related to contracting. The candidate will work directly with the business, providing day-to-day advice for senior executives and other business members on contracting issues, resolving issues that arise in existing relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries. A successful candidate should be proactive, able to provide innovative solutions that balance legal and business concerns, enjoy working hard and being challenged, have strong written and oral communication skills, demonstrate sound and pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations, and have a healthy sense of humor.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice law in England and Wales
• 2+ years PQE, primarily with transactional legal experience including specific experience in technology transactions
• Should have substantive legal knowledge and the ability to counsel Sales and other key stakeholders in the following areas: technology contracts, licensing, data privacy and security, and intellectual property
• Should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Corporate/Commercial legal experience supporting a variety of functions and prior in-house experience preferred
• Must be attentive to details, a good communicator, and an active listener
• Experience using legal technology tools such as Salesforce-integrated CLMs and AI legal tools
• Knowledge of emerging regulations such as DORA and the UK/EU AI Act
• Able to work with, manage and ensure cost effective services from outside counsel
• Periodic travel required
• Ability to support time zones across EMEA and APAC

Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, with $21 billion in annual revenue, combines the power of strategy, execution, and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for large public and private organizations around the world. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps customers and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution, and integration capabilities.

With over 13,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized multiple times in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and leadership focus on diversity and inclusion. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners, and communities.

WWT is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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