Managing Legal Counsel

at  LSEG London Stock Exchange Group

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.
Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

• Providing a wide range of legal advice and support to the business (with a focus on LSEG’s Benchmark and Indices division), sales, technology and procurement teams in EMEA.
• Reviewing, drafting, revising and negotiating a wide range of agreements with customers, vendors, partners and other third parties, including data licenses, software and other intellectual property related licenses, SaaS, outsourcing, master agreements, term and conditions, non-disclosure agreements, and other complex commercial agreements.
• Advising and responding on legal issues related to the collection, usage and licensing of news/content/data/benchmarks and indices, AI and software services from multiple sources.
• Advising and responding on legal issues relating to regulations impacting LSEG’s data products, in particular regulated benchmarks.
• Advising and responding on legal issues (in a financial services context) related to cloud computing, resilience regulations (including DORA) and other emerging technologies (including AI).
• Working with significant authority and autonomy to provide legal advice to internal stakeholders that may have significant implications for business performance, including in respect of litigation, regulatory issues, technology, vendors, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity matters, data misuse, and consumer complaints.
• Working on general corporate and licensing matters.
• Maintains close working relationship with relevant outside counsel and managed legal service providers.
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining, updating and revising contract template agreements, processes and playbooks, supporting on special projects where required.
• Acts as a trusted advisor regarding relevant markets, business strategies and operating environments to both the business and stakeholders, and identifies possible solutions to issues that arise.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of legal and regulatory developments that impact LSEG