Legal Counsel

2 days ago

Gurgaon, India Rackspace Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
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**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:
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**_ Key Accountabilities_**

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- **Acting as a Legal business partner for all in-region commercial transactions, with a strong focus on sales.**
- **Structuring, negotiating and drafting sales, partner and vendor contracts and related agreements which can range from standard contracts to bespoke, complex and enterprise transactions.
- Advising senior executives and other business team members on general legal and contract specific issues and risks, their impact and mitigating actions.
- Providing the requisite legal approval on sales contracts in accordance with our standard policies and procedures, escalating non-standard matters to the VP, Deputy General Counsel.
- Partnering with our International Legal team and US Legal team to ensure we have a consistent global approach in the way we work with our internal clients.
- Providing training to the sales teams on legal engagement and our standard legal policies and procedures
- Attending regular meetings with the sales and legal stakeholders, providing written progress reports and delivering on process improvement initiatives.

**MAIN CONTACTS (external/internal)**:
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- International Legal team

International leadership and sales teams
- US Legal team
- Rackspace customers and partners
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**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:

- **Qualified Solicitor with 5-7 years post qualified experience, with strong academic background**
- **Extensive background in general IT law and data protection law with significant IT/Internet technology sector experience**
- Previous in-house legal experience working on sales contracts for a global technology company
- A good understanding of cross jurisdictional issues that may arise when negotiating global agreements with multinational companies, particularly in relation to the EMEA region
- Broad transactional background, including extensive general commercial contracting on sales contracts and software licensing/intellectual property experience
- **Excellent negotiation and drafting skills**
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal client and legal stakeholders and act as a business enabler
- Confident in advising senior management on legal, risk and strategic issues with a willingness to challenge when required
- Flexible approach, willing to accommodate UK working hours to support our EMEA sales teams
- Ability to simplify, problem solve, multitask and work effectively against deadlines
- Excellent commercial and strategic business judgment

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