Legal Counsel, Octopus Capital

Octopus Capital Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in Greater London is seeking a proactive Legal Counsel with a transactional background in real estate. This role involves managing legal matters, collaborating on investment transactions, and implementing legal frameworks. Ideal candidates will be fully qualified UK lawyers with experience in complex real estate transactions. The company offers a competitive salary, hybrid working model, and additional benefits including private medical insurance and generous parental leave.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Hybrid working

Paid parental leave

Private medical insurance

Electric vehicle leasing

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in private practice or legal teams of recognized fund managers.
• Exposure to complex transactional work in real estate, funds, or finance.
• Ability to provide timely legal advice.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day legal matters and provide legal support.
• Collaborate on transactional matters with investment teams.
• Proactively manage and optimise the legal panel.
• Stay updated on legal and regulatory changes.
• Implement legal training and awareness initiatives.

Skills

Transactional background

Strong foundation in real estate

Legal risk management

Education

Fully qualified UK lawyer

Job description

Job Description

Team Overview :

At Octopus Capital – part of Octopus Investments, a certified B Corp – we invest in the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. With a strong track record of backing new investment classes, we prioritise areas we believe can make the biggest difference for our clients, people and the planet. Our impact-focused strategies are aligned to solving some of the world’s greatest challenges and centred on three core asset classes : real estate, energy & infrastructure and private debt.

What’s in it for you?

We are seeking a proactive, commercially minded Legal Counsel with a transactional background and strong foundation in real estate. This exciting role will provide strategic and pragmatic legal support across Octopus Capital. Ideally, you’ll be comfortable handling a broad range of matters, thrive in a fast-moving environment, and can balance legal risk with commercial objectives.

What you'll be doing

• Manage day-to-day legal matters, acting as the first point of contact for legal queries and providing timely, pragmatic support to internal stakeholders across the UK and Spanish offices.
• Collaborate with investment teams and senior stakeholders on transactional matters,providing legal advice and support on transactions across the business including new fund formations, finance transactions and work outs, real estate acquisitions and developments, joint ventures and corporate projects.
• Proactively manage and optimise the legal panel, fostering strategic partnerships with external counsel to ensure high-quality, cost-effective legal support.
• Stay abreast of and support legal and regulatory updates,contributing to the creation and implementation of internal legal frameworks, and governance and risk processes.
• Implement training and internal legal awareness initiatives, helping to embed best practices and improve understanding of legal risk across the business.
• Co-ordinating with the wider Octopus Group teams, including Group Legal & CoSec, Risk & Compliance, and Fund Finance. Support with the onboarding and supervision of legal secondees.
• Implementing legal innovation, such as AI and legal technology solutions.

Qualifications

✅Fully qualified UK lawyer (or comparable), with a transactional background and good grounding in real estate. Specific experience in funds, finance, or corporate real estate will be considered.

✅ Post-qualification experience in private practice or within the legal team of a recognised fund manager, lender, or institutional investor, with exposure to complex transactional work in real estate, funds, or finance.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?

This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that.

Additional Information

💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan

✈️ Untracked holiday

🏡Hybrid working – our people spend 3 days a week in the office

⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more

👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender

❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection

🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family

🚗 Electric vehicle leasing

Our Values

At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.