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Wolters Kluwer Financial Services United Kingdom Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a legal counsel with SaaS experience to support its international business in London. This role involves negotiating complex commercial contracts, advising on compliance, and working closely with the sales team. The ideal candidate has a law degree and significant experience in corporate law, particularly within the financial services sector.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Excellent Benefits

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a law degree from a recognized educational institution.
• Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible corporate/commercial legal experience.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing hands-on legal assistance in structuring and drafting complex commercial transactions.
• Negotiating high value deals across EMEA.
• Advising on regulatory and compliance matters.

Skills

Commercial Transactions

Contract Negotiation

Legal Compliance

Excellent Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Law Degree

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Wolters Kluwer Financial Services United Kingdom Ltd

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Description:

Description

Wolters Kluwer’s CP & ESG International’s large enterprise software business is looking for a legal counsel with software license and SaaS experience to support our international business in EMEA, the US and APAC in the Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting Software market. This role can be located in our offices in London, Canary Wharf, or one of our other European locations. This role will support the CP & ESG division’s Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting business reporting to the Assistant General Counsel.

Responsibilities:

• Providing hands-on legal assistance in structuring and drafting, negotiating, interpreting, managing and enforcing complex and high value commercial transactions, including: (i) licensing and software arrangements (including SaaS services and related implementation agreements), (ii) master services agreements and related statements of work, (iii) partnering, reseller and strategic alliance arrangements, and (vi) vendor and consulting agreements.
• Negotiating high value deals opposite banks and large financial institutions across EMEA in English; other European languages, particularly French, an advantage.
• Helping to educate the business teams about contracting forms, intellectual property rights and obligations, commercial and legal risks and approval procedures.
• Providing legal counseling regarding a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters impacting the businesses, including legal issues related to SaaS, on premise software license and professional service offerings and strategic relationships.
• Providing hands-on legal assistance in structuring and drafting, negotiating, interpreting, managing and enforcing complex commercial transactions.
• Counselling with respect to regulatory and compliance matters impacting the businesses, including the European Banking Authorities outsourcing guidelines, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR) and sanctions (e.g. U.N. and U.S. Sanctions Programs).
• Developing a strong rapport and working relationship with an international sales team.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have a law degree from a recognized educational institution.
• Ability to negotiate complex contracts in [English]. [The ability to negotiate in additional European languages (especially in French) is also advantageous.]
• Experience negotiating with customers in the financial services industry an advantage.
• Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible corporate/commercial legal experience.
• Experience preferably includes a prominent law firm, and/or the corporate law department of a medium-to-large-sized company.
• Experience must include hands-on drafting and negotiation of sophisticated commercial contracts and technology agreements, including software license and support agreements, software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements and consulting agreements.
• Experience conducting negotiations in a global, matrixed environment managing urgent priorities from multiple stakeholders is preferred.
• A “can do” solutions orientation.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

In return, we offer the opportunity to join a highly successful, growing, market-leading organisation with a strong mission and values, as well as a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

WhyWolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. (AEX: WKL) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.

Wolters Kluwer recently reported annual revenues of €4.3 billion. The company, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 19,000 people worldwide.

Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).

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