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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Counsel to advise on and negotiate complex SaaS, software, data and technology agreements supporting the global sale of Thomson Reuters products and services. You'll be a hands-on commercial lawyer with deep experience on the supplier (sell) side of technology transactions. You'll also take a practical, problem-solving approach and work in a technology-enabled, data-driven legal department. You'll be a trusted advisor to Sales, Product Management and other business teams. You'll spot and analyse legal issues, draft and negotiate agreements, give commercially sound recommendations, and ensure legal compliance. We want someone who makes working with Legal simple and efficient, for both internal stakeholders and customers. The role sits within the Customers & Commercial team of the Thomson Reuters General Counsel Office. This highly collaborative team helps the business grow while managing risk across Thomson Reuters' customer-facing commercial organisation.
Responsibilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of customer facing and partner agreements, primarily complex software (including SaaS) and information licensing agreements, data protection and security, hosting, content acquisition, consulting and professional services agreements, non- disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements relating to sales of Thomson Reuters products and services.
- Work within the Customers & Commercial team identifying legal, regulatory and compliance requirements and risks associated with various business initiatives and developing and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Work with members of the General Counsel Office on enterprise- wide legal issues and projects.
- Research and respond to general legal inquiries from Thomson Reuters internal customers that relate to corporate, commercial, intellectual property and compliance matters, including privacy-related matters, and advise business on appropriate legal action to be taken.
Requirements
- 7 years minimum post qualification experience in private practice and/or as in-house legal counsel advising on the sell rather than the buy side.
- Excellent written/verbal English language communication skills.
- German, French or Spanish language skills or legal experience working in these jurisdictions are an advantage
- Excellent technical legal knowledge in contract and commercial law, particularly with SaaS products and solutions.
- Excellent negotiation and drafting skills.
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, to identify and resolve legal issues.
- Authorisation to practice law.
- Candidates will need to have a commercial focus and real interest in developing their privacy, data protection and cybersecurity knowledge and applying to our customer contracting.
- Experience negotiating and drafting clauses & agreements relating to data processing, data protection and cybersecurity with GDPR, data transfers and data sharing.
- Knowledge of US privacy laws would also be an advantage
- German language communication skills would be an advantage
Skills
- SaaS
- software
- data and technology agreements
- commercial law
- contract law
- negotiation
- drafting
- privacy
- data protection
- cybersecurity
- GDPR
- US privacy laws
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid Work Model
- work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- Senior Counsel
- 7 years minimum post qualification experience
Education Level
- Authorisation to practice law
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- access to the Headspace app
- retirement savings
- tuition reimbursement
- employee incentive programs
- resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- two paid volunteer days off annually
About the Company
- Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
- We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
- Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
- Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
- We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
- At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
- Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
- More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
- Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
- We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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