Job Title: Legal Counsel
Job Code: REF22765Z
Skill Category: Legal
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent
Posting Start date: Friday 11th October 2019
Closing Date: Friday 8th November 2019
Salary: Competitive plus Benefits

This role sits within a fun, supportive and hard-working Commercial and Corporate Legal Team, who manage commercial, corporate, employment, data protection and intellectual property legal matters. This Team is part of a larger Legal and Regulatory Division (including, competition, UK regulatory, EU regulatory specialists), which has consistently had some of the highest engagement scores and prides itself on a creative, can-do approach.   

The Commercial and Corporate Legal Team works at the cutting edge of new payment technologies, innovation and the fintech industry in an increasingly regulated environment, which brings unique and novel challenges in the commercial/technology law space.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

•    Provide legal advice and support relating to matters such as client and supplier agreements, business innovation and digital product initiatives (such as mobile payments and data products), product development, licensing arrangements, the development of template contracts, and other general commercial matters. 

•    Draft, review, negotiate and advise on a wide range of contracts relating to the matters above. 

•    Provide legal support in relation to acquisitions and strategic alliances, including legal due diligence, contract drafting and negotiations. 

•    Identify competition/anti-trust, data protection and other regulatory issues, and liaise when necessary with internal members of the Legal and Regulatory Division, and/or external counsel. 

•    Identify the need for external legal advice and engage appropriate outside counsel on a range of legal issues across Visa’s European region. Management of outside counsel, including budgets. 

•    Work with other Visa departments across the globe to ensure contracts and advice accurately reflects business needs and policies as they develop.

•    Responsible for management of day-to-day legal queries and business deals, taking the lead on all relevant legal activities.

•    Manage, develop and maintain relationships to facilitate the effective delivery of legal advice and assistance.

•    Provide training, to identified business areas, on law, processes and policies.

•    Proactively contribute to the Legal and Regulatory Division’s planning, cohesion, consistency in advice, and the general efficiency and effectiveness of the division as a whole.

•    Qualified lawyer with previous experience in a commercial legal environment (ideally PQE). We will consider candidates who have qualified in other jurisdictions.

•    Experience in payments sector.

•    Previous experience of cross-border and multi-jurisdictional contracts.

•    Demonstrable experience at a recognised law firm and in-house environment. 

•    Strong academics and training, including legal drafting and negotiating, and relationship management. 
•    Excellent written and oral communication skills along with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders. 

•    Ability to work in a team environment as well as on own initiative.

•    Ability to prioritise and manage a varied and busy workload. 

•    Positive attitude, high level of integrity and intellectual curiosity.

•    Fluent in English.

•    Previous experience of working within a technology and digital legal environment.

•    Previous experience of cross-border and multi-jurisdictional contracts.

•    Additional European language.