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About the Role
The Corporate Legal Counsel role is part of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Legal team in London, focusing on transactional work including M&A, joint ventures, investments, and commercial matters across EMEA. The role requires providing practical legal advice on complex transactions in a rapidly evolving industry to business executives.
Responsibilities
- Handle, manage & coordinate a wide variety of legal activities.
- Support and execute corporate activity and work closely with executive teams.
- Partner with business units and support functions on acquisitions, dispositions, investments and JVs, corporate restructuring and other corporate projects.
- Draft and negotiate all forms of corporate agreements, including M&A transaction contracts.
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence.
- Advise on corporate law requirements during all stages of transactions and corporate activity.
- Support the Corporate Legal team with legal advisory matters, including corporate maintenance, commercial, compliance, and regulatory projects.
- Manage the current portfolio of companies across all EMEA territories.
- Provide commercial legal advice and contract drafting and negotiation to the television, production, and home entertainment groups on UK and International matters.
- Keep up-to-date with technical and legal developments relevant to corporate law and in media and technology worldwide.
- Identify key changes and updates that impact the team and the business.
- Identify regulatory enforcement focus.
- Provide updates and summaries to the Corporate Legal team.
- Assist with taking appropriate compliance action across the enterprise.
- Develop and present training and legal updates to foster communication, create awareness, and enhance collaboration on corporate and related matters.
- Manage and maintain relationships with business partners individually and as part of a cohesive legal team.
- Support and implement the vision, strategy, and values of the business.
Requirements
- Must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom for the duration of the employment.
- Ability to work independently and closely with business executives.
- Provide practical legal advice on complex transactions in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Strong technical expertise, including the ability to draft, negotiate, and advise on complex agreements.
- Advise and work closely with executives across Sony Pictures’ strategy and corporate development teams, as well as stakeholders from all business divisions.
- Gain a strong understanding of its strategic priorities, commercial objectives, and operational needs.
- Combine excellent legal skills with intellectual curiosity and a genuine enthusiasm for learning new areas of law and business.
- Be highly organised, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
- Ability to build effective relationships, collaborate across teams, and deliver practical, business-focused legal advice.
- A solid understanding of corporate law and compliance.
- Self-starter with a proactive and positive attitude.
- Demonstrate a commercial and practical approach.
- Take ownership of tasks and work independently as well as collaboratively.
- Ability and willingness to continue to learn and understand new law and industry practices.
- Excellent legal analysis, drafting, negotiation and organisational skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to win the confidence of business partners.
- Flexibility to respond appropriately to a wide variety of stakeholders across multiple territories in a fast-paced international business.
- Serve as an advisor to business partners by providing pragmatic, commercially focused and timely legal guidance.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with an ever-changing landscape calmly and thoughtfully under pressure.
- Work confidently and proactively towards strategic objectives, aligning efforts with organisational goals and direction provided by supervisors.
- Effectively prioritise workload to maximise efficiency, productivity and outcomes.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player.
- Exercise sound judgment, discretion and maintain confidentiality in all matters.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset, actively seeking and incorporating feedback to support continuous development.
- Sony Pictures does not allow audio recording, video recording or use of AI note-taking tools during interviews.
- Candidates requiring these tools as an accommodation during an interview should submit a reasonable adjustment request at the point they are invited to interview.
Skills
- Transactional work
- M&A
- Joint ventures
- Investments
- Commercial work
- Drafting agreements
- Negotiating agreements
- Advising on complex agreements
- Corporate law
- Compliance
- Legal analysis
- Organisational skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Relationship building
- Collaboration
- Business-focused legal advice
- Commercial legal advice
- Contract drafting
- Contract negotiation
- Legal due diligence
- Corporate restructuring
- Corporate maintenance
- Regulatory matters
- Legal advisory matters
Location
- London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus eligibility
Benefits
- A choice of comprehensive health plan options
- Private medical insurance
- A week off during the winter holidays
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- Extensive learning & development opportunities
- Curated instructor-led classes
- High-impact online resources
- Employee Business Resource Groups
- Sony Pictures Action – our racial equity and inclusion strategy
- Access to an employee online store filled with discounted Sony products
- Exclusive employee screenings at work
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Automatic enrolment in the Company’s Pension Plan
- Free counselling and advisory service
- Automatic enrolment in the Company’s Life Insurance and Group Income Protection Plans
- Opportunity to attend various social events
- Optional discounted benefits (gym memberships, travel insurance, activity passes, car leasing, experience days, and many more)
About the Company
- Sony Pictures Entertainment is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures.
Equal Opportunity
- No worker or potential worker will therefore receive less favourable treatment due to their race, age, creed, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender, marital status or Trade Union membership (if applicable).