Global Technology Legal EMEA - Assistant Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in London seeks a Global Technology Legal EMEA - Assistant Vice President to provide legal counsel on technology transactions. The role involves drafting vendor contracts and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in commercial technology law and strong analytical abilities. Competitive compensation is offered with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of post-qualification experience in technology transactional law.
• Experience with commercial contracts involving technology.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex legal issues.

Responsibilities

• Providing technology legal strategic advice to internal clients.
• Drafting and negotiating complex vendor contracts.
• Supporting global transactions focusing on regulatory requirements.
• Reviewing new regulations regarding outsourcing and technology risk.

Skills

Technology legal advisory

Drafting complex vendor contracts

Analytical skills

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Qualified lawyer with current practicing certificate

Job description

Overview

As a Global Technology Legal EMEA - Assistant Vice President in Legal department you will work independently under light supervision to advise on a broad range of technology transactional and regulatory attorney who will work independently to advise on a broad range of technology transactions covering outsourcing, cloud, and software licensing, among others, as well as regulatory implementation projects and advocacy work.

Responsibilities

• Providing technology legal strategic advice and counsel to internal clients.
• Drafting and negotiating the full range of complex vendor contracts for technology products and services, outsourcing, cloud/SaaS arrangements, software development, licensing and maintenance agreements, website terms and conditions, and others.
• Supporting global transactions with a focus on EMEA regulatory requirements, and handling regulatory remediation projects.
• Reviewing and analysing new regulations, in particular for Outsourcing, Cloud, and Technology Risk Management.
• Contact and support senior management in the Firm. Qualified lawyer with current practicing certificate with at least 3 years of post-qualification experience.

Qualifications

• Candidate should ideally have trained at and previously worked for a multinational law firm with post-qualification experience in the Commercial/TMT or equivalent practice.
• Experience in structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts involving technology, with a solid grasp of the key technology and data issues presented.
• Good understanding and familiarity with current legal and regulatory requirements relating to some or all of technology risk, outsourcing, offshoring, intellectual property, and related legal environment.
• Ability to effectively partner with all levels across a diverse set of functions, locations and business.
• Strong analytic skills and ability to distill large bodies of information into key messages for business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to present and speak with clarity on complex, novel legal issues to legal and non-legal audiences.
• Understanding of regulatory environments desirable.
• Qualified with English law preferred.

About J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

Corporate Functions

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Legal Team

With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.