Legal Counsel, EMEA

at  Dentsu Aegis Network

Job Title:
Legal Counsel, EMEA
Job Description:
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.
Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to help deliver, manage and support legal work required at a Legal Counsel level of ability within dentsu across EMEA.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice to stakeholders at various levels of the organisation on relevant subjects to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and the protection of dentsu’s commercial interests.
• Drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of commercial agreements.
• Delivering adequate legal support (templates, advice, risk management, subject matter knowledge) to accelerate and underpin the expansion of company strategy.
• Providing legal support on various matters to commercial teams in contractual negotiations to achieve the most advantageous and/or beneficial legal and commercial terms for dentsu.
• Assisting in developing and delivering training and legal risk management initiatives to senior management in managing legal risks (e.g. business training, legal updates, etc).
• Helping to implement best-practices in compliance, contracts management, intellectual property, data protection, IT, litigation and/or M&A (having regard to the Legal Counsel’s specialist area).
• Assisting with delivering cost-effective handling of existing litigation and disputes to protect dentsu’s best interests, including timely and accurate reporting.

Qualifications + Skills

• Qualification to practice law; NQ to 3 years’ PQE
• Industry / commercial contracting experience
• Experience and knowledge of key legal principles relating to specialist areas of law.
• Experience in risk management and helping manage compliance programmes, including the drafting of policies and procedures and training.
• Knowledge of corporate governance.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role.
• We are flexible in terms of location, but you must be based within a commutable distance from our Manchester or London offices as we operate under hybrid working arrangements and you will be expected to work from the office at least 2 days a week.
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
Location:
London
Brand:
Dentsu Emea
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanen

• Providing legal advice to stakeholders at various levels of the organisation on relevant subjects to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and the protection of dentsu’s commercial interests.
• Drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of commercial agreements.
• Delivering adequate legal support (templates, advice, risk management, subject matter knowledge) to accelerate and underpin the expansion of company strategy.
• Providing legal support on various matters to commercial teams in contractual negotiations to achieve the most advantageous and/or beneficial legal and commercial terms for dentsu.
• Assisting in developing and delivering training and legal risk management initiatives to senior management in managing legal risks (e.g. business training, legal updates, etc).
• Helping to implement best-practices in compliance, contracts management, intellectual property, data protection, IT, litigation and/or M&A (having regard to the Legal Counsel’s specialist area).
• Assisting with delivering cost-effective handling of existing litigation and disputes to protect dentsu’s best interests, including timely and accurate reporting