Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial (12 Month FTC)
We are seeking a highly motivated senior commercial lawyer with between 5 and 8 years’ post qualification experience to join the Commercial Legal team on a one-year fixed term contract. The ideal candidate will have significant media rights and/or sports industry partnerships experience.
Commercial Legal Team
Formula 1’s Commercial Legal Team is responsible for the legal work associated with supporting Formula 1’s revenue generating agreements with broadcasters, sponsors and licensees (including experiential and gaming partners), its marketing activities and agreements with key service providers.
What you can expect to work on
As a senior lawyer in the Commercial Legal team, you will be responsible for drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements including media rights agreements, sponsorship agreements, product and experiential licence agreements, and complex services agreements, such as those relating to website development or broadcast delivery.
Candidates will be able to demonstrate the following experience
- training and significant post-qualification experience at a leading law firm (e.g. City, US or West End law firm) or post-qualification experience within a reputable in-house legal team;
- experience of working across a variety of commercial contracts with particular emphasis on revenue generating agreements including robust experience of leading on drafting and negotiation of such deals; and
- experience supervising junior lawyers/paralegals.
We would like to meet candidates who
- thrive in a fast-paced environment, are agile, and can manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and deliver results under pressure to a deadline;
- have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders;
- pride themselves on having a high degree of attention to detail;
- are team players and understand of the importance of building relationships with internal clients, peers and external partners;
- are enthusiastic, have a can-do attitude and a willingness to expand their skillset;
- take responsibility for their own workstreams and are solution-orientated problem-solvers; and
- are prepared to invest in learning about the business of Formula 1 (recognising it will take time for new recruits to fully understand Formula 1’s various revenue streams and how Formula 1 contracts with its various partners).
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