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Job summary
A leading fintech company in Central London is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join their high-calibre legal team. You will draft and review complex SaaS contracts, monitor legal developments, and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve business goals. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years' PQE in commercial, IT, or technology law, and strong negotiation skills. This role offers an attractive salary and hybrid working arrangement.
Benefits
Qualifications
- 5 - 8 years PQE in commercial, IT or technology law.
- Excellent drafting skills - able to draft contracts free-hand.
- Experience from practice or fintech business.
Responsibilities
- Drafting, preparing, and reviewing complex SaaS product contracts.
- Track and monitor legal and regulatory developments.
- Improve customer contract negotiation process and lead supplier negotiations.
- Advise on existing client contracts, compliance, and risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align legal support with business goals.
- Oversee and manage external legal counsel.
- Advise on best practices and compliance.
Skills
Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Location: Central London
Salary: £120k - £140k
PQE: 5-8 Years
Contract: 24 months FTC
Hybrid: 4 office / 1 home
Fast-growing, innovative fintech company are looking for a Legal Counsel, with a background in commercial, IT or technology law, to join their high-calibre legal team. This role sits directly under the General Counsel.
- Drafting, preparing, and reviewing complex SaaS product contracts
- Track and monitor legal and regulatory developments
- Improving customer contract negotiation process and lead supplier negotiations
- Advise on existing client contracts, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders to align legal support with business goals
- Oversee and manage external legal counsel
- Advising on best practices and compliance
- 5 - 8 years PQE in commercial, IT or technology law
- Excellent drafting skills - must be able to draft contracts free-hand
- Experience from either practice or another fintech business
- Confident negotiator
Fantastic opportunity in a high-performing, global business and ideal for a candidate coming from private practice looking to move into an in-house role. Excellent benefits on offer.
The PQE on this role is a guide only and the client is open to seeing candidates with relevant experience.
McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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