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About the Role
The OI Legal team provides legal support across Octopus Investments, partnering with business teams to help deliver commercial outcomes while appropriately managing legal risk. This role will be primarily dedicated to supporting the Octopus Ventures part of the business, backing founders and businesses seeking to build transformative companies.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal oversight of venture transactions, from term sheet through to completion.
- Manage external counsel and key stakeholders, providing strategic legal guidance.
- Advise on follow-on investments, portfolio company matters, shareholder issues, secondary transactions and exits.
- Deliver pragmatic, risk-based advice to investment professionals, founders and management teams.
- Coordinate internal stakeholders and external legal counsel to support efficient transaction execution.
- Build strong and trusted relationships with investment teams and become a key legal partner.
- Identify opportunities to improve legal delivery through standardisation, automation and operational efficiencies.
- Support strategic business initiatives, cross-functional projects and legal function priorities.
- Support the adoption and use of AI and legal technology tools to improve workflows.
- Support the ongoing development of legal precedents, know-how and internal guidance materials.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor with a minimum of four years' post-qualification experience.
- Strong experience advising on venture capital transactions with experience acting for venture capital, growth equity or private equity investors.
- Proven ability to manage transactions independently and work directly with senior stakeholders.
- Strong drafting, negotiation and project management skills.
- Experience using legal technology and AI tools to improve ways of working.
- Exposure to both retail fund structures and institutional investment fund structures.
- Previous in-house legal experience, ideally within an investment manager, fund manager or high-growth business.
- Experience supporting M&A transactions and company exits.
- Exposure to secondary transactions.
Skills
- Commercial judgement
- Relationship building
- Ownership and accountability
- Communication and influence
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Team Contribution
Location
- Hybrid working
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Minimum of four years' post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
Benefits
- Untracked holiday
- Hybrid working – three days in the office, two days from home
- Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, employee assistance program & more
- Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
- Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
- Private medical insurance for you and your family
- Electric vehicle leasing
- The option to work overseas up to a month per year
About the Company
- At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.
- We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority.
- We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
- We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity
- By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds.
- We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process.
- Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process.
- If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.