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Candia (Coopérative Sodiaal)International Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel in charge of securing international operations and ensuring legal compliance for Sodiaal. Providing legal support and advice, drafting contracts, and managing disputes.
About the role
- Reporting to the Head of Legal, this role will involve working across all areas of the exciting and demanding legal world of video games.
- You will handle a diverse workload covering key commercial projects in the UK and globally, handling a broad range of commercial advisory work with a particular requirement to advise on data protection and privacy, and employment matters.
- There will also be potential to deal with intellectual property, licensing, video game agreements, and litigation.
- Working as part of a collaborative team, you will have great communication skills and thrive in building strong partnerships with stakeholders across the business to help us achieve our objectives.
- Provide strategic and practical advice to the business on commercial, data protection and privacy, employment, regulatory, IP, and corporate matters.
- Review, negotiate and advise on data protection agreements, processes and assessments and assist in handling and processing of the exercise of data subject rights.
- Assist People & Culture function on all employment matters including day-to-day queries, contracts, policies and litigation.
- Review, draft and negotiate video game specific and other commercial contracts.
- Assist on corporate transactions including liaising with external solicitors on M&A work and corporate compliance, assisting the Head of Legal on all relevant matters.
- Help manage a diverse portfolio of trademarks and shape the business brand strategy for our evolving living games world.
- Liaise with external bodies and internal stakeholders on new regulatory developments relevant to the video games industry, providing tools and advice to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape.
- Devise, develop and implement policies, practices and procedures to drive the improvement of the legal function within Jagex and ensure overall business compliance.
- Assist with preparing advice/ad-hoc reports and presentations for the board and/or senior management on topical subjects.
- Support and collaborate with other members of the legal Team to build trusted partner relationships with stakeholders across the business.
- Contribute to the identification, assessment and implementation of mitigations in respect of risks to the business, including by supporting the maintenance of Jagex’s risk register and compliance reporting and in response to changing regulatory requirements.
- Support the Head of Legal in the development and maintenance of effective and efficient interaction with external regulators e.g the ICO, Ofcom and the CMA, ensuring that Jagex’s views are appropriately represented and facilitating the supervisory activity of regulators.
Requirements
- Qualifying law degree (or equivalent) together with relevant qualifications to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales.
- 3+ years PQE.
- Accustomed to working on a broad mixture of commercial contracts, with proven experience of drafting and negotiation.
- Working knowledge of the requirements of the UK and EU GDPR and equivalent data protection regulations worldwide.
- Experience advising on matters relevant to employment, human resources and immigration.
- A commercial, pragmatic approach to delivering legal advice.
- Awareness of the threats, challenges and regulatory issues facing the video games industry.
- Desirable:
- Experience in an in-house role, particularly in gaming, tech, entertainment or a similarly dynamic, consumer-facing sector.
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