Senior Legal Counsel, UK

4 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Oracle Full time

The Candidate
Must be UK qualified with at least 5 years relevant experience from a leading law firm or with appropriate in-house experience. Must have significant experience in drafting complex IT agreements and advising clients on commercial tech deals. Must be self-starting and have proven ability to manage a fast-paced workload and to work as part of a team.

General Responsibilities
• Responsible for legal support to sales teams across various industry sectors
• Independent handling of contracts’ negotiation and drafting
• Continuous interface with commercial approvers and related risk management
• Close liaison with Business Practices and Contract Specialist organisations

Legal Functions
• Draft and negotiate major or complex non-standard agreements
• Advise the Business on structure of contractual relationship, including appropriate documents to use
• Respond to ad hoc queries, providing appropriate legal solutions
• Identify, analyse, and evaluate risks
• Work closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle
• Ensure compliance with Oracle business practices, policies, and procedures

Required Skills
• Solicitor or barrister qualified to practice in the UK (5yrs+ PQE)
• Fluent in English
• High-level legal drafting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Presentation skills

Responsible for providing legal advice to the organization. Close liaison to business in providing a variety of corporate and commercial legal services. May perform litigation on Oracle's behalf or coordinates litigation and other legal, administrative or investigative actions handled by outside counsel. May draft, review, and negotiate major and/or non-standard technology contracts with public and private sector customers, including licensing agreements, professional services agreements, and cloud services agreements. May advise on legal issues involving government and regulatory compliance. Responds to ad hoc queries to include identification, analysis, and evaluation of risks in order to provide appropriate legal solutions. Works closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle and coordinates legal matters handled by outside lawyers. Demonstrates deep general commercial or functional knowledge across a wide range of sub disciplines within the individual's specialty area(s), (., general corporate law, antitrust/competition law, securities compliance and regulatory, employment law, immigration law, cloud transactions, data privacy, risk management asset-backed financing, contract management, intellectual property, trade secrets, advertising law, registration and other resolutions specific to the computer and technology industry)



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