In House Legal Counsel in Wokingham, Berkshire
Legal Counsel sought by IT company (software) in Wokingham, Berkshire.
Software house with new vacancy for a Legal Counsel offering excellent career advancement in a dynamic, international and progressive environment within a financially stable company.
As part of the Northern Europe legal team your main responsibility will be to provide in-house legal counsel to members of the UK, Nordic and Benelux Sales organizations but you will also need to liaise closely with peers in other EMEA regions and in the US.
General Roles and Responsibilities:
negotiate contracts including license, service and software as a service agreements, communicate with regional sales managers and customers as appropriate to ensure compliance and involvement in legal issues and processes, work closely with Best Practice and Revenue Recognition teams to ensure contracts comply with accounting rules, global licensing policies, US based laws and regulations (e.g. FCPA, SOX) and local law, provide legal advice and counsel on regional or country-specific legal issues, support the corporate compliance programs, including educating regional employees and liaise with outside counsel on region-specific engagements and assist Legal Counsel II and the VP EMEA Legal on litigation engagements.
Also to undertake ad-hoc projects as directed by the VP EMEA Legal.
Looking for someone qualified as a solicitor with experience negotiating IT and other commercial contracts.
Written and verbal presentation skills in English (fluency in another European language preferred but not essential)
Must have willingness to travel (5% travel time).
Salary levels not indicated yet but this is a permanent full time role.
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
▪Over 10,000 solicitors and ILEX registered with us.
▪ Over 700 locum candidates registered.
▪ Established in April 2000.
▪ Offices in London and Chester.
▪ 10% of annual profits donated to charity.
We are a specialist legal recruiter, covering the whole of the UK. A large proportion of our vacancies are based in London and the South East, but we do assist firms elsewhere on a very regular basis. Over 10,500 lawyers are registered with us and we have access to a range of external and internal job boards and websites where we do not have candidates available ourselves. We also assist with recruitment advice and assistance, regularly advising partners and practice managers on suitable salary and package levels.
Our company is unique for a number of reasons, including the fact that a) we are not shy to publish our fee structure and b) we donate a chunk of our profits to charity each year. We offer unlimited permanent and locum recruitment for a fixed fee or one-off fees for permanent and locum. We donate 10% of our profits annually to charity, hence our name.
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment also owns Interim Lawyers, a specialist locum service.
The Ten-Percent Group of Legal Recruitment websites gives 10% of annual profits to charity (hence our name). We have carried on with this tradition since we formed the company 14 years ago. So far over £51,000 has been donated to charities in the UK and Africa including LawCare and the CAB.
Software house with new vacancy for a Legal Counsel offering excellent career advancement in a dynamic, international and progressive environment within a financially stable company.
As part of the Northern Europe legal team your main responsibility will be to provide in-house legal counsel to members of the UK, Nordic and Benelux Sales organizations but you will also need to liaise closely with peers in other EMEA regions and in the US.
General Roles and Responsibilities:
negotiate contracts including license, service and software as a service agreements, communicate with regional sales managers and customers as appropriate to ensure compliance and involvement in legal issues and processes, work closely with Best Practice and Revenue Recognition teams to ensure contracts comply with accounting rules, global licensing policies, US based laws and regulations (e.g. FCPA, SOX) and local law, provide legal advice and counsel on regional or country-specific legal issues, support the corporate compliance programs, including educating regional employees and liaise with outside counsel on region-specific engagements and assist Legal Counsel II and the VP EMEA Legal on litigation engagements.
Also to undertake ad-hoc projects as directed by the VP EMEA Legal.
Looking for someone qualified as a solicitor with experience negotiating IT and other commercial contracts.
Written and verbal presentation skills in English (fluency in another European language preferred but not essential)
Must have willingness to travel (5% travel time).
Salary levels not indicated yet but this is a permanent full time role.
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
▪Over 10,000 solicitors and ILEX registered with us.
▪ Over 700 locum candidates registered.
▪ Established in April 2000.
▪ Offices in London and Chester.
▪ 10% of annual profits donated to charity.
We are a specialist legal recruiter, covering the whole of the UK. A large proportion of our vacancies are based in London and the South East, but we do assist firms elsewhere on a very regular basis. Over 10,500 lawyers are registered with us and we have access to a range of external and internal job boards and websites where we do not have candidates available ourselves. We also assist with recruitment advice and assistance, regularly advising partners and practice managers on suitable salary and package levels.
Our company is unique for a number of reasons, including the fact that a) we are not shy to publish our fee structure and b) we donate a chunk of our profits to charity each year. We offer unlimited permanent and locum recruitment for a fixed fee or one-off fees for permanent and locum. We donate 10% of our profits annually to charity, hence our name.
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment also owns Interim Lawyers, a specialist locum service.
The Ten-Percent Group of Legal Recruitment websites gives 10% of annual profits to charity (hence our name). We have carried on with this tradition since we formed the company 14 years ago. So far over £51,000 has been donated to charities in the UK and Africa including LawCare and the CAB.
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