Commercial Underwriting Counsel providing underwriting support for title insurance in real estate transactions at First American's National Commercial Services. Collaborating with personnel to guide title insurance issuance and settlement services.
About the role
- Legal Counsel providing commercial legal advice to Confused.com, the first UK car insurance comparison platform. Join a dynamic team in the FinTech industry with varied responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- **About the role**
- We’ve got an opportunity in our Cardiff office for a qualified legal professional to join us on a fixed term basis, providing trusted legal advice to our commercial teams and contributing to new products and initiatives - no two days will be the same!
- You’ll have an interest in a varied commercial legal workload, with strong drafting and negotiating skills, and the ability to apply them independently to drive the business forward and create real value.
- **What you'll be doing**
- Working with our business teams to draft, negotiate and execute commercial agreements, whilst proactively maintaining and improving the processes that underpin them.
- Providing day-to-day legal perspective and guidance, as well as risk assessment and mitigation
- Advising our business teams on compliance with data protection and e-privacy laws
- Assisting with acquisitions and corporate integration projects
- Helping to establish and manage a framework of policies and guidance to manage legal and commercial issues within our business
Requirements
- **Essential:**
- 1 to 5 years’ post-qualification experience in-house or at a commercial or corporate law firm with experience providing full service commercial legal support (the reference to PQE is a guide only. We welcome applications from candidates with more or less PQE)
- An experience and appreciation of the challenges and requirements of delivering legal support in a fast moving commercial in-house team with ability to be impactful from an early stage..
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales (or another common law jurisdiction)
- Proven technical ability to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements to tight timescales
- Experience of advising on IT, data protection/e-privacy laws as well as commercial and law
- Ability to work autonomously
- **Desirable:**
- Knowledge of intellectual property, competition law and regulated sector experience
- Knowledge of the insurance and/or financial services
Benefits
- We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans, and employee assistance programme
- Free gym access
- Employee discounts programme
- A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
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