Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel

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MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Since established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL has been providing best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Since established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL has been providing best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and Three for serving their tens of millions of customers in the UK. Working at MBNL means being part of a team where you feel connected, valued and supported.

We are now seeking a Legal Counsel to join our in-house legal team who provides commercially focused and efficient legal solutions, supporting all areas of the business from property to procurement. The purpose of this role will be to provide high quality, nimble and commercial focused transactional property and property litigation support in relation to ongoing management of a network in excess of 20,000 sites.

This role will suit a newly qualified solicitor or someone with no more than 3 years industry experience.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

• All legal aspects of the ongoing management of the MBNL Network with an emphasis on legal property work.
• Delivering excellent legal solutions on target and to budget ensuring external legal spend is effective and efficient
• Managing external lawyers appointed by MBNL to include approving documentation and ensuring that the external lawyers deliver
• Assisting with establishing and constantly improving effective and efficient processes and policies, particularly with regard to leveraging the Electronic Communications Code
• Supporting and facilitating project activities/deliverables on all sites
• Advising the business on general litigation/property/telecoms issues and general estate management queries
• Analysing legal rights and providing strategic commercially focused advice and/or negotiating (where applicable) with the Site Providers and/or their solicitor
• Working closely with property colleagues to support their business requirements
• Providing support to the Commercial Legal team in the form of drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts.

Key Challenges:

• Dealing with a high volume of activities in a challenging and fast paced environment
• Quickly identifying and developing the skills required to provide effective support to the legal team and the MBNL business
• Working within very tight deadlines and delivering to exceed expectations and add value while evolving innovative ways improve

Critical knowledge & experience:

• A qualified solicitor/legal executive from 0 to 3 years PQE (or equivalent)
• Experience of one of the following: Real estate or real estate litigation, commercial contracts or telecommunications
• Excellent word processing skills including Microsoft excel / outlook / PowerPoint / SharePoint and word
• Ability to handle large workloads and to adapt and learn new skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Drafting and negotiating skills
• Ability to work well and thrive under pressure
• Organised, efficient, enthusiastic, and resilient

Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.