Senior Counsel (Brand Licencing & Protection)

Taylor Root Dusseldorf; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury retail brand in London is looking for a Senior Counsel for Brand Protection & Licensing. This role involves drafting licensing agreements, providing legal support to teams, and requires a qualified lawyer with strong experience in intellectual property law and brand licensing. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Competitive salary and company benefits offered.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Company benefits

Qualifications

• Trained and qualified as a lawyer.
• Experience in a reputable private practice firm and in-house.
• Strong knowledge of brand licensing practices.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate licensing agreements with licensees.
• Provide legal advice on licensing matters.
• Support teams in managing licensing agreements.
• Create and update template documents for efficiency.

Skills

Intellectual property law

Brand licensing

Legal drafting

Commercial agreements

FMCG/Retail experience

Education

Qualified lawyer

5+ years post-qualification experience

Job description

Overview

Don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to join a luxury brand as their senior counsel for Brand Protection & Brand Licencing!

Contract duration: 9-10 months with good opportunity for extensions

The business

A globally renowned luxury retailer with an excellent reputation in the market. This is a business people love working at and a brand name that everyone knows. They have an exceptionally high performing legal team who are all well established, experienced in their field and who are a joy to work with. The legal team have an excellent reputation in the business, are highly valued and are all integral to the commercial objectives of the business.

The role

Working in the commercial legal team and bringing your knowledge and expertise of intellectual property law and brand licensing industry practices to the forefront to support the growth of the Group’s brand licensing business.

• Responsible for drafting and working with Licensing team to negotiate licence agreements with licensees in relation to branded consumer products and branded retail operations;
• Responding to day-to-day enquiries from internal clients and external counterparties and providing commercially minded legal advice in relation to licensing matters;
• Supporting commercial teams in their ongoing management of the licensing agreement (including acting as the Legal team point of contact on the matters you are working on)
• Preparing know how on relevant legal/contractual issues and running department-wide training sessions to share know-how;
• Creating and updating template documents and “playbooks” to make workstreams in this area more efficient;
• You will also support the business in relation to other commercial agreements, for example in relation to marketing, commercial partnerships and key supplier agreements when required.
• Opportunity to be involved in wider matters outside of brand licensing and protection
• Supervising junior lawyers on brand licensing matters when needed.

Experience required

• Trained and qualified as a lawyer – essential
• Experience/ grounding in a reputable private practice firm as well as in-house is desirable
• Worked as part of an in-house legal team with experience of drafting worldwide IP licenses in relation to merchandise, apparel and consumer goods.
• The successful candidate would likely have 5+ years of relevant post-qualification experience, but we are prepared to consider exceptional candidates outside this range;
• Strong and varied experience of legal drafting of licensing and other commercial agreements;
• Ability to work within a fast-paced environment and to tight deadlines;
• Strong knowledge and understanding of intellectual property law AND brand licensing industry practices is essential.
• Experience in FMCG/Retail/ Luxury Goods or a media/entertainment business with strong merchandising and consumer goods function where brand licensing is a large focus for the business growth.

Please note, whilst other commercial agreements are likely to come up in this role, we are seeking candidates with strong experience and specialism with brand licensing.

Salary: Highly competitive salary and company benefits!

Office: London HQ based – 3 days a week ideally. Please note, fully remote workers will not work for this position.

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