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Description
Description
Are you an experienced commercial lawyer looking to take on a new challenge? Or an in-house lawyer looking to step back into private practice? Then this could be the role for you.
Our Intellectual Property & Technology (IP&T) team are looking to recruit a Senior Associate or Director-level commercial lawyer to join our Leeds office on a 12-month fixed-term contract, working as part of a multi-disciplinary practice that operates at the leading edge of modern business.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.
With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Leeds, London, and Manchester.
The firm is committed to promoting a collaborative and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and workplace culture and development programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.
Our Team
Our IP&T team in the UK advise on a broad range of commercial contracts across a variety of industry sectors including technology, telecoms, advertising, media, food & drink, retail, financial services, pharma and life sciences, and sports/entertainment, amongst others.
In addition, our team advises extensively in relation to IP protection and exploitation, consumer law and data protection. We act for a broad range of clients from fast growing UK companies and large multinationals to governments and sovereign wealth funds.
We also provide commercial, IP and IT support to our Corporate teams in respect of M&A transactions in Leeds and across the UK.
Our Opportunity
You will join our IP&T team in Leeds which is a relatively small but also well-respected and ranked by the legal directories such as Chambers. The team is an integral part of the broader IP&T team in the UK. You'll be working with a very experienced Director who leads the team in Leeds alongside a mid-level associate and trainee. As a truly integrated national team, you will work with others in the team in Manchester, Birmingham and London on a daily basis as well colleagues in other practice groups and offices around the world.
You'll have the opportunity to get involved in a varied workload with plenty of scope for direct client contact. The role will suit an outstanding lawyer with a commercial attitude along with a confident and proactive approach, with good people skills, the ability to work as a team player.
You
We are looking for someone with significant experience and knowledge ofcommercial contracts in some or all of the industry sectors referenced above, has extensive experience in undertaking corporate support work on M&A matters, a good working knowledge of data privacy issues in the commercial contracts context, and ideally, experience in advising on consumer law issues and/or technology contracts, with a minimum of six years' PQE.
You'll be technically strong, with excellent communication skills, able to take the lead on matters and supervise more junior members of the team.
What You Need To Know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our Careers website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, please complete an online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.
