Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel (Property)

Permanent

Reading - Hybrid

At MBNL, our mission is clear:
Managing the Mobile Infrastructure to Enable Digital Britain
. As the UK's largest network-sharing joint venture, we are at the forefront of industry transformation, delivering innovative solutions that shape the future of connectivity.

The Role:

The MBNL in-house legal team provides commercially focused and efficient legal solutions together with risk management support across all areas of the business from property to procurement. The team are responsible for a range of activities including delivering robust and legally sound contracts; dispute resolution and management; and supporting the wider Property & Legal function on all aspects of property acquisition, disposal and estate management.

The Legal Counsel (Property) will be responsible for providing high quality, nimble and commercially focused transactional property and property litigation support in relation to ongoing management of a network in excess of 25,000 sites.
This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days per week based in our Central Reading office.

What you'll do:

• Advise the business on general litigation/property/telecoms issues and general estate management queries
• Analyse legal rights and provide strategic commercially focused advice and/or negotiating (where applicable) with the Site Providers and/or their solicitor
• Deliver excellent legal solutions on target and to budget ensuring external legal spend is effective and efficient
• Manage external lawyers appointed by MBNL to include approving documentation and ensuring that the external lawyers deliver: (a) to agreed strategy, standards and service levels; (b) within defined timescales; (c) to budget; and (d) with added value, and provide reporting / management information as required by MBNL
• Assist with establishing and constantly improving effective and efficient processes and policies, particularly with regards to leveraging the Electronic Communications Code
• Support and facilitate project activities/deliverables on all sites
• Work closely with property colleagues to support their business requirements as well as reporting to the Shareholders

What you'll bring:

• A UK Qualified Solicitor
• A minimum of 4 years PQE
• Commercial property or property litigation experience (essential)
• Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (essential)
• We would welcome applications from candidates with private practice and/or in-house experience in the above fields
• Ability to handle large workloads and to adapt and learning new skills
• Excellent Communication, Drafting and Negotiating skills
• Ability to work well and thrive under pressure
• Organised, efficient, enthusiastic and resilient
• An ability to work in a rapidly changing environment with complex and occasionally challenging relationships.

Nice to Have:

• Volume portfolio management
• Experience of implementing process change
• High volume dispute resolution / litigation experience
• Health and Safety / Regulatory experience
• Telecoms experience
• Electronic Communications Code (desirable but not essential)

MBNL – building strength through inclusion.

At MBNL we embrace equality, diversity, and inclusion. People are at the heart of everything we do and collectively we strive to create an environment where everyone can flourish. By fostering an inclusive environment, we are championing each other's uniqueness. Inclusion & Diversity within MBNL will unlock innovation and continue to evolve how we work, to help us deliver world class infrastructure for our Shareholders and their customers.

We will work creatively to offer flexible working arrangements, (like non-standard hours, part-time, remote working). We want to support you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

MBNL are proud recipients of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, and Disability Confident accredited.