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About the Role
Provide practical legal support for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, growth investments, and portfolio activities. You will help the business make informed decisions and manage legal risk effectively by contributing throughout the transaction lifecycle, from evaluation and due diligence to negotiation, signing, completion, and implementation. This role offers an experienced transactional lawyer the chance to combine technical legal expertise with commercial judgment and clear decision support.
Responsibilities
- Providing legal support across acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, growth investments, reorganisations and portfolio transactions
- Managing legal workstreams from confidentiality arrangements and term sheets through due diligence, signing, completion and subsequent implementation
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transaction documents and related agreements
- Identifying material legal issues and recommending practical options that support commercial objectives
- Partnering with Corporate Development, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Regulatory and other specialist teams to deliver coordinated outcomes
- Managing external legal advisers and supporting proportionate and transparent oversight of legal spend
- Preparing clear advice, risk summaries, approval papers and transaction updates for senior stakeholders
Requirements
- Strong experience in company law, mergers and acquisitions and investment related work, gained in private practice, in house or through a combination of both
- Experience supporting transactions through due diligence, drafting, negotiation, signing and completion
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to provide clear, proportionate and practical legal advice
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, project management and organisational skills
- The ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities and stakeholders in a transaction environment
- Confidence working with external advisers and coordinating legal input across functions and jurisdictions
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication
- A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across legal and business teams
- Experience in technology, media, content, telecoms, digital infrastructure or energy
- Experience supporting international or cross border transactions
- Experience supporting governance or company secretarial activities
- Experience reviewing investment documentation and governance rights affecting portfolio value
Skills
- Company law
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Investment related work
- Due diligence
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Project management
- Organisational skills
- Stakeholder management
- External adviser coordination
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Collaboration
- Relationship building
- Technology
- Media
- Content
- Telecoms
- Digital infrastructure
- Energy
- International transactions
- Cross border transactions
- Governance
- Company secretarial activities
- Investment documentation review
- Portfolio value governance
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Professional legal qualification as a solicitor, barrister or equivalent legal professional in a relevant jurisdiction
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus bonus where applicable
- 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase five more
- Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance
- Matched pension contribution up to 10% (UK only)
- Free public transport subscription (NL only)
- 24 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off
- Discounted gym and wellness memberships
- Access to our car benefit scheme
- Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
About the Company
- Join Liberty Global and Shape Tomorrow’s Connections Today!
- Liberty Global is a team of experienced operators and investors across telecom, media, and tech.
- We create value through the strategic management of two core platforms: Liberty Telecom and Liberty Growth.
- Liberty Telecom is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications, providing approximately 80 million fixed and mobile connections across Europe through leading brands, such as Virgin Media O2, VodafoneZiggo, and Telenet.
- Liberty Growth invests in scalable businesses across the technology, media, sports, and infrastructure sectors, with a portfolio of around 70 companies, including ITV, Formula E, AtlasEdge, and Egg.
- If you're entrepreneurial and thrive on challenges, join our high-performing team and Grow with Us.
Equal Opportunity
- Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and encourage those who bring fresh perspectives, diverse experiences and bold ideas to apply.