Commercial Lawyer

Company: Epiq Counsel
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Location: London
Job Description:

Join our global marketing and communications client as a Commercial Lawyer on a secondment basis. This role will support a broad range of commercial, advertising, technology and business operations matters across a dynamic and fast-paced business. This role offers the opportunity to partner closely with creative, media, data and technology teams, providing pragmatic legal advice while acting as a trusted day-to-day business advisor.

Key Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, negotiate and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements supporting media planning, media buying and related business activities.
  • Act as the day-to-day legal partner to creative business teams, providing practical and commercially focused legal guidance.
  • Advise on advertising and marketing clearance matters, including content usage, intellectual property rights, publication and promotional activities.
  • Support data, technology and digital marketing initiatives, identifying and addressing legal and commercial risks.
  • Provide legal support in connection with IT, procurement and third-party service provider agreements.

Qualifications

  • Qualified solicitor with 6+ years PQE.
  • Demonstrable experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements.
  • Strong commercial judgement and the ability to provide practical, solutions-oriented advice in a fast-paced in-house environment.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication and contract negotiation skills.
  • Exposure to advertising, media, marketing, technology, data privacy or digital services matters advantageous.
  • Experience advising on rights clearance, content usage, intellectual property or publication-related issues is advantageous.

Working Arrangement

  • Secondment Engagement
  • Option to work fully remote anywhere in the UK or 2 days hybrid out of London.
  • Hybrid flexibility with a collaborative and supportive team.
  • Private healthcare, pension and annual leave included in your fixed term employment contract.

About Epiq Counsel

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal secondment work and flexibility to credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of legal matters for top FTSE clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Posted: October 11th, 2026