Commercial Lawyer - Assistant Director - CBS, Permanent - London
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£51,600
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Legal Counsel - Commercial Lawyer – Assistant Director - Permanent - London
EY is a global network of professional services firms engaged in consulting, transaction, assurance and tax services with member firms in over 150 countries worldwide. The UK firm of Ernst & Young LLP has over 800 Partners and over 21,000 employees.
The UK Legal team is well established and highly regarded. Led by our General Counsel, Lisa Cameron, we comprise 36 lawyers supported by 4 paralegals. The UK Legal team also forms part of a Global legal function.
The opportunity
We have a vacancy for a Legal Counsel – Commercial Lawyer within our Commercial Team. This team sits alongside our Litigation and Regulatory Team, and our Employment team forming together our UK Legal Team. We operate a one team approach, bringing the best of each team to matters as appropriate, all based in our primary London office at London Bridge, but working in a hybrid way.
Our Commercial Team supports our entire UK business. We deal with all clients, in all sectors from Global banks, to Global technology providers, to pharma, defence and other industries through to leading Government bodies. The work is diverse, ever changing, and no two days are the same.
Our team has recently been evolving its operational model placing us much closer to our clients, dealing directly with our client-handling teams and those clients and looking at all relevant legal aspects of the deals we advise on. We see ourselves as enablers of our business, offering pragmatic, business focussed advise which both drives our business forward, whilst also protecting it.
We respond to business transformation and innovation, enjoying a varied and challenging workload, and support the new EY All in Strategy by showing curiosity, intelligence and energy to deliver prompt, pragmatic, adaptable and high quality commercial legal advice to all levels within our business.
Your Key Responsibilities
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
Legal Counsel - Commercial Lawyer – Assistant Director - Permanent - London
EY is a global network of professional services firms engaged in consulting, transaction, assurance and tax services with member firms in over 150 countries worldwide. The UK firm of Ernst & Young LLP has over 800 Partners and over 21,000 employees.
The UK Legal team is well established and highly regarded. Led by our General Counsel, Lisa Cameron, we comprise 36 lawyers supported by 4 paralegals. The UK Legal team also forms part of a Global legal function.
The opportunity
We have a vacancy for a Legal Counsel – Commercial Lawyer within our Commercial Team. This team sits alongside our Litigation and Regulatory Team, and our Employment team forming together our UK Legal Team. We operate a one team approach, bringing the best of each team to matters as appropriate, all based in our primary London office at London Bridge, but working in a hybrid way.
Our Commercial Team supports our entire UK business. We deal with all clients, in all sectors from Global banks, to Global technology providers, to pharma, defence and other industries through to leading Government bodies. The work is diverse, ever changing, and no two days are the same.
Our team has recently been evolving its operational model placing us much closer to our clients, dealing directly with our client-handling teams and those clients and looking at all relevant legal aspects of the deals we advise on. We see ourselves as enablers of our business, offering pragmatic, business focussed advise which both drives our business forward, whilst also protecting it.
We respond to business transformation and innovation, enjoying a varied and challenging workload, and support the new EY All in Strategy by showing curiosity, intelligence and energy to deliver prompt, pragmatic, adaptable and high quality commercial legal advice to all levels within our business.
Your Key Responsibilities
The work within the UK Commercial Team is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from the running of a professional services business. Much of the legal work is at the cutting edge of business practice as the firm constantly finds innovative ways to help our clients’ businesses.
This in-house role includes:
advising on, drafting and negotiating contracts, such as:
This in-house role includes:
- Master Services Agreements and Global Framework Agreements with our clients;
- Teaming with other lawyers on large complex commercial contracts pursuant to which we provide an ever more diverse range of services (which increasingly relate to AI);
- Teaming with other lawyers on managed services and outsourcing agreements;
- Subcontracts, where EY is either the prime, or the subcontractor;
- Collaboration agreements;
- Software and Licensing agreements, both traditional and SaaS;
- Government and public sector agreements;
- Advising on the use of technology, including GenAI, and the provision of technology related services;
- Advising on tenders and RFP responses;
- Advising on, drafting and negotiating contracts with suppliers;
- Providing legal advice to the firm’s service lines and its other internal support functions such as real estate and facilities, procurement, finance, Talent, IT, knowledge and marketing and the opportunity to be the legal lead on firm-wide projects.
- Strong team player with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
- Demonstrable commitment to the attributes of our highest performing teams – focus on results, accepting of accountability, committed, embracing healthy conflict, building trust.
- Ability to keep calm and cope well with conflicting and ever-changing deadlines.
- Ability to lead, provide a view, take responsibility and ownership of issues, including an ability to take difficult decisions and provide substantiated arguments.
- 5 or more years of post-qualification experience.
- Experience gained in-house.
- Ability to provide practical legal advice and support with a high degree of professionalism in a fast-paced environment and to establish a high degree of credibility, respect and trust at all levels including with senior members of the firm, some of whom have a considerable understanding of the law.
- Be a self-starter, adept at responding promptly/juggling deadlines who actively looks to build relationships based on trust and confidence.
- Ideally, experience of advising on the use of GenAI in the context of service provision and experience of using GenAI in the provision of legal services.
- Ideally, but not essentially, some experience of advising on data privacy matters.
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around;
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career;
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer a reality.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Join us in building a better working world.
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Join us in building a better working world.
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.