Solicitor

Footballco; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global football media company seeks a Solicitor or Barrister to join their in-house legal team. The role involves providing practical legal advice on commercial contracts, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, and handling a variety of legal issues. Responsibilities include drafting documents, managing contracts, and client relationship management. The ideal candidate will be a qualified legal professional with experience in commercial law. This position is based in City Of London, UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing legal advice on commercial contracts.
• Ability to draft and manage legal documents.
• Flexibility to handle a variety of legal issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical legal advice across the Football Group of companies.
• Draft and prepare legal documents.
• Undertake contract reviews and manage contracts.

Skills

Practical legal advice

Contract review

Compliance knowledge

Client relationship management

Education

Qualified Solicitor or Barrister

Job description

Job Description

Footballco is the world's leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover everything in football from news and analysis, original reporting, and social media content, to web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores. With over 1 billion video views per month, 100 million social followers globally, and a reach of 800 million across web, social, and video platforms, Footballco is the world’s largest football media company and one of the largest digital media companies in sport globally.

About the Role

Footballco has a small but dedicated in-house legal team. The purpose of the Solicitor / Barrister role will be primarily to provide practical legal advice on commercial contracts across the Football Group of companies around the world. In addition, as an in‑house lawyer flexibility will be required to provide legal advice on a wide range of issues to ensure compliance with applicable law, regulations and best practices. The successful candidate will also need to undertake a variety of administrative and client relationship tasks.

The Solicitor or Barrister will be responsible for drafting and preparing documents, undertaking contract reviews and contract management, the manage...