Legal Counsel, Media and Global Clients

Job Description:

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Amplifi is the supply-side platform of dentsu, consisting of three pillars: Investment Management, Media Trading (Media Owner Services and Principal Buying) and Content (Original Partnerships & Entertainment); all underpinned by Supply-Side Management practises. Amplifi is the investment and innovation arm of dentsu across all media channels and entertainment content. The proposition is based on the delivery of value for all in everything we do. Our focus is to deliver the best possible media value for clients through leveraged media buying, sustainable media income and enable innovation with the supply-side with product, services and capabilities.

Purpose of the Role

As Legal Counsel, you will support the Global Media practice area, working at the forefront of the dynamic media industry. In this role, you will provide expert legal guidance to commercial teams, senior lawyers, and key stakeholders, ensuring smooth negotiations and strong legal frameworks for agreements with clients and suppliers. Your responsibilities will include advising on commercial contracts, structuring deals, and securing the most favourable legal and commercial terms for dentsu.

A key aspect of this role involves assessing supplier and client contracts with a sharp eye for risk, efficiently identifying critical issues while balancing business objectives. You will play a vital role in shaping agreements and projects, offering strategic legal insights that safeguard dentsu’s interests while driving commercial success.

Key Responsibilities

• Advising on contract compliance, including questions of contract interpretation, data protection queries and overall strategy to the Media practice area and other stakeholders at various levels of the organisation to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

• Managing existing client and supplier contractual matters, including amendments, extensions, and ancillary agreements, including DPAs and data access agreements.

• Providing support on the technology and data aspects of commercial agreements across a variety of areas, liaising with other members of the dentsu legal and compliance team.

• Working closely with other practice areas lawyers and the wider dentsu legal and compliance team to implement best practice and guidance in relation to development and deployment of strategy, new commercial initiatives, precedent positions, local implementation agreements, processes and policies for local market legal teams and commercial teams.

• Supporting the development and delivery of training and legal risk management initiatives, compliance strategies, legal policies and processes to standardise Group conduct across the practice areas to manage legal risk.

• Delivering legal support (templates, advice, risk management, subject matter knowledge) to accelerate and underpin the expansion of the Media practice area strategy.

Qualifications + Skills

• Law society or accredited bar organisation member and law firm or in-house experience (3 – 4 years’ PQE)

• A commercial lawyer with experience in technology, intellectual property, data protection and corporate law; ideally experience with services agreements in a media or technology context.

• Strong legal drafting skills, ideally across multiple jurisdictions

• Media or technology industry experience

• Strategic and commercial mindset, with an ability to assess and advise on legal and commercial risk.

• Can take initiative and be pro-active on addressing new matters or challenges and can work autonomously as required.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role.

• This role will be based in our London office where we currently operate under hybrid working arrangements.

• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their best selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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