Legal Counsel - Sport

Do you want to work for a brand new high-profile entrant into the sports sector?

Legal Counsel

Client

You will be working for a hugely exciting new name within the sports industry.

Role

This is a brand newly created position as part of the organisation's continued global expansion plans and is to be based at its London HQ.

You will report directly into the General Counsel and will be fully exposed to all internal stakeholders.  You will forge close relationships with several extremely high-profile figures within the sports world.

You will undertake an extremely diverse in-house role, getting involved in a wide range of commercial contracts such as sponsorship and marketing agreements, licensing deals and IP issues.  You will work internationally, on legal issues both across Europe and the USA.

You will be rewarded with a highly attractive remuneration package.

You

You will be a UK qualified lawyer with approximately 2-5 years' PQE.  You will have trained and qualified at a top 25 UK, US or international law firm.  You will have some prior experience of widespread commercial contracting, sponsorship, marketing, branding and/or IP issues.  Prior in-house experience is not a pre-requisite.

To find out more details about this role, please email a copy of your CV in the first instance to jonathan@jmatthewslegal.co.uk.