Counsel, Employment and Litigation

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a qualified attorney to support day-to-day business operations by advising on legal matters within policy frameworks. The role focuses on intellectual property, licensing, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance across technology services and vendor agreements.

You will draft, review, and negotiate contracts, monitor regulatory changes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage risk and ensure sound legal outcomes for complex transactions.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree and licensure to practice law.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in intellectual property, licensing, regulatory/compliance, and corporate matters.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist with drafting and negotiating basic to moderately complex agreements.
• Review legal documents for consistency with company policies and risk.
• Advise on changes in legislation affecting the company and ensure compliance.
• Plan and direct corporate legal guidance on IP, licensing, and technology services.
• Assist with claims management and contract negotiations with external parties.

Skills

Legal drafting

Negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Intellectual property

Contract management

Education

Juris Doctor Degree

Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in‑class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

What you’ll own

• Under general guidance, assists in diverse matters affecting day‑to‑day business operations by advising, investigating, researching, and resolving legal matters within corporate legal policies to ensure that company personnel are aware of and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Keeps informed of changes in legislation or regulations that impact the company.
• Assists with the drafting and negotiating of basic to moderately complex agreements. Assists with the review of legal documents.
• Uses highly qualified generalist legal background, and works on a broad base of assignments with particular focus in the areas of intellectual property law, licensing, servicing, vendor/supply procurement of technology services and products, regulatory/compliance, and general corporate matters. The assignments require some originality, ingenuity, and problem‑solving ability. Participates in the negotiations with customers and third parties.
• Assists with the preparation and recommendation of legal documents by analyzing, drafting, negotiating, and reviewing these documents to ensure consistency with respect to the company’s policies or principles with respect to risk and commercial and legal soundness.
• Assists with the investigation and management of claims by and against organization. May conduct interviews, prepare reports, responses to interrogatories, litigation, and pretrial works.
• Assists in managing the legal aspect of contract negotiations, and assists outside counsel on major contracts.
• Assists with reviewing and preparing of responses to insurance coverage requirements requested contractually by customers and third parties.
• Assists in planning and directing of the corporate legal guidance and counsel on all Intellectual property matters.
• Assists with the development of up‑to‑date knowledge in areas of special interest to the company, including, intellectual property, software licensing issues, international and domestic contract law, privacy, data protection, financial services, insurance issues, general corporate matters, servicing, vendor procurement, and other issues affecting outsourcing of financial and payments related services.

What you’ll bring

• Juris Doctor Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in: Graduate of accredited law school (including all other necessary prerequisites for gaining licensure to practice law), and maintaining qualifications and licensure throughout employment
• Typically Minimum 6 Years Relevant Exp
• Skills / Knowledge - Having wide‑ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve moderately complex issues in creative and effective ways. Having ownership of a sub‑function, account or matrix management responsibilities, applies knowledge to meet goals, maintain relationships, propose opportunities to expand the business, and lead matrix teams. Some barriers to entry exist at this level (e.g., dept./peer review).
• Job Complexity - Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in‑depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise. Builds on/Maintains external relationships of assigned accounts.
• Supervision - Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead).
• Emotional Intelligence - Possesses a set of competencies demonstrating the ability one has to recognize his or her behaviors, moods, and impulses, and to manage them best according to the situation. Typically, “emotional intelligence” is considered to involve emotional empathy; attention to, and discrimination of one’s emotions; accurate recognition of one’s own and others’ moods; mood management or control over emotions; response with appropriate (adaptive) emotions and behaviors in various life situations (especially to stress and difficult situations); and balancing of honest expression of emotions against courtesy, consideration, and respect (i.e., possession of good social skills and communication skills). Selection of work that is emotionally
• Personal Competence (Emotional Intelligence) - Having self‑awareness; Knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions. Being able to manage ones’ internal states, impulses and resources.

—Recognizes one’s emotions and their effects on themselves and others.
—Knows one’s strengths and limitations.
—Possesses a strong sense of self worth, self‑esteem and capabilities.
—Emotional self‑control such that disruptive emotions and impulses are kept in check.
—Maintaining integrity; acting congruently with one’s values.
—Adaptability; flexibility in handling change..
—Having an achievement orientation; striving to improve and meet a standard of excellence.
—Taking initiative; a readiness to act on opportunities
—Being optimistic and persistent; the ability to pursue goals despite obstacles and setbacks.

• Social Competence (Emotional Intelligence) - Being able to productively handle relationships, both internal and external to the company. Having strong social awareness, i.e., being aware of others feeling, needs and concerns. Having strong relationship management skills; an adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever‑evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.

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