Associate - Corporate Legal

Associate - Corporate Legal

Job Summary:

As a Technology Legal Associate in our Legal team, you will provide legal coverage to Europe, the Middle East and Africa across all LOBs in the areas of Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Outsourcing, Third-Party Risk Management, Cloud, Technology Transactions, and Emerging Technologies. The EMEA Technology & IP Legal team rolls up into Corporate Law via the Technology Legal Practice Group, with accountability locally to the EMEA General Counsel.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technology legal advice and counsel to internal clients (e.g., Global Technology, business-aligned technology teams, Events/Marketing, Global Security, Lines of Business and Corporate Functions) and their partners, such as  Business coverage lawyers and the teams providing governance and oversight of third-party relationships;
• Review, interpret and negotiate agreements with suppliers, advising clients and partners on rights and responsibilities related to those agreements, including compliance with JPMorganChase policies and regulatory requirements;
• Support global transactions with a focus on EMEA regulatory requirements, and handling regulatory remediation projects;
• Review and analyse new regulations, in particular for Outsourcing, ICT, Cloud, and Technology Risk Management; 
• Support business coverage lawyers on technology and intellectual property due diligence for M&A transactions, as well as draft relevant sections of Due Diligence reports and advise on legal risk (with supervision from more senior members of the team);  
• Provide ad-hoc advice on contract interpretation;
• Manage outside counsel for complex legal projects; and manage end-to-end negotiations, and navigate internal processes and coordination between the business, Legal, and other subject matter experts to reach timely and successful execution of agreements;
• Help drive the Legal Department’s strategic agenda and actively participate in the Legal Department’s people’s initiatives, template production and management, and matter management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 3 years of post-qualification experience; 
• Experience in structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts involving technology, with a solid grasp of the key technology and data issues presented; 
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills. strong analytical skills and the ability to distill large bodies of information into key messages for business stakeholders and to analyze novel scenarios with limited precedent, perform self-guided research and offer creative and practical solutions to complex business challenges.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strong preference for experience with technology, outsourcing, and general third-party commercial contracting/ transactional matters;
• Qualification from a common law jurisdiction preferred; 
• Good understanding and familiarity with current legal and regulatory requirements relating to some or all of technology risk, outsourcing, offshoring, intellectual property, and related legal and regulatory environments desirable; 
• Candidate should ideally have trained at and previously worked for a large corporate law firm with post-qualification experience in the commercial, technology, media and telecommunications or equivalent practice;