Counsel, Legal, Commercial Partnerships

- Drafting and negotiating bespoke agreements relating to commercial partnerships in relevant territories, specifically as they relate to the distribution of WBD channels and streaming services, as well as all advertising and sponsorship. - Provide legal advice and support to local teams on contractual rights and remedies relating to distribution agreements and commercial partnerships generally. - Provide on-going general business and legal advice to internal clients. - Key Legal point person for all legal issues impacting relevant territories and liaising with colleagues from other/ specialist areas of the Legal team as appropriate. - Supporting strategic initiatives in relevant territories, notably JVs and other strategic partnerships. - Advising on, coordinating and, where applicable, supervising external counsel on, key litigation disputes and enforcement policies (e.g., bad debt, piracy). - Support lawyer on certain key regional and international deals. - Technically very proficient lawyer – needs to have excellent understanding of regulatory, contract law, consumer and data protection law, IP/ IT and corporate law and excellent drafting skills. - Must be UK (or comparable jurisdiction) qualified lawyer., excellent academics; training and experience at top law firm an advantage. - Ability to work autonomously on complex deals and to own key internal commercial relationships. - Negotiation skills – to deliver both proper legal protection to the company and excellent commercial results, clear and concise communicator (both orally and written) – ability to present and distil legally complex issues into legally compliant but practical and commercial solutions, in a way that engages the key stakeholders. - Flexible and pro-active approach to work, including a recognition that some work may be needed to support key deals out of usual working hours.