Junior Legal Counsel

Junior Legal Counsel  

• Are you torn between the excitement of start-ups and the stability of corporate life?  

• Are you curious, and do you want to keep learning whilst getting real business building experience?  

• Do you want to play a key role in managing risk and creating commercial opportunity for the BC portfolio as a Junior Legal Counsel?   

If so, we would love to hear from you!    

We are seeking high-energy, entrepreneurial, and value-driven professionals to join Blenheim Chalcot, a leading global venture builder. In this role, you will negotiate and draft commercial contracts, provide comprehensive legal advice across various disciplines, and support our portfolio ventures, which are all embedded with GenAI.

ABOUT US 

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. Headquartered in London from our flagship White City Scale Space campus, we have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 26 years. Blenheim Chalcot is responsible for building some of the most innovative GenAI enabled companies in the UK and increasingly around the world – with significant operations in India and the US, as well as emerging operations in Europe and Southeast Asia.   

Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted by digital including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. Our portfolio has been conceived and launched by us and employ over 3,000 employees. Our assets under management stand at more than £1.8bn and total portfolio sales is over £500 million.  

IMPACT BEYOND PROFIT  

15% of our partnerships and ventures are charities. These include the British Asian Trust, BabyZone and Onside Youth Zones. In the same way that we support our ventures, our Partners provide direct hands-on support to these charities by being active board members and offering expert advice.     

OUR BEHAVIOURS  

• Honesty and integrity – trustworthy.  

• Resilience - keeps going when the going gets tough, remains optimistic in the face of challenges, open to feedback and willingness to change and experiment.  

• Teamwork – is collaborative and supportive, elevating and developing others to deliver results.  

• Innovation - restless to improve, challenges how to make things better.  

• Deliver results - keeps promises, drives to achieve, commitment to high quality work.  

• Commercial awareness - looks for best value solutions for the business, understand costs / revenues, spends money wisely.  

THE ROLE  
 
At Blenheim Chalcot, we are expanding our legal team by recruiting a Legal Counsel into our Scale Space White City office. The role will report to Blenheim Chalcot’s Senior Legal Counsel and will require a commercially minded individual to negotiate and draft commercial contracts and provide legal advice across various legal disciplines, including, but not limited to, intellectual property, commercial, data protection, property, corporate and employment law.  
 
You will work as a key member of our Legal Team, closely collaborating with a range of stakeholders within the wider VBS business and across a portfolio of over 25 companies. This role is varied and challenging, requiring you to apply your commercial skills while taking responsibility for managing risk across the business. 
  
Key responsibilities  
 

• Negotiate and Draft Contracts: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial contracts. 

• Support Portfolio Companies: Provide legal support to the rapidly expanding portfolio of Blenheim Chalcot businesses, including startups, especially those offering AI solutions. 

• Data Protection and Compliance: Monitor and implement data protection, privacy, and compliance policies. 

• Risk Management: Identify, monitor, research, and resolve issues relating to commercial contracts, liaising with external and internal stakeholders to minimize business risk. 

• Intellectual Property Protection: Help portfolio businesses protect their brands and intellectual property. 

• Transaction Documentation: Work closely with the BC Investments team to accurately document transactions and advise on processes set out in a company’s articles and/or shareholders’ agreement. 

• Independent Work: Ability to work independently while managing multiple tasks and deadlines.    
   

The Ideal Candidate  

The ideal candidate will have a track record of delivering results in a fast-moving business environment and be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role. 

• Professional Qualifications: qualified in England and Wales with at least 1 year PQE, but we will also consider candidates who are in the process of qualification or are foreign-qualified lawyers with experience working with English and Welsh law  

• In-House Experience: Ideally, will have some prior in-house experience, ideally in a venture capital or startup environment. 

• Commercial Legal Advice: Experience providing legal advice in a commercial environment and working across data protection and intellectual property issues. 

• Stakeholder Management: Ability to build strong work relationships internally and externally. 

• AI Solutions Experience: Understanding of the legal implications and challenges specific to businesses offering AI solutions is preferable. 

• Independent Work: Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively. 

• Commercial Mindset: A commercially minded approach to legal practice, with the ability to align legal strategies with business goals.   

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:  

• Be part of a world leading Digital Venture Builder   

• Have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible diverse talent in BC   

• Be exposed to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development and opportunity to work with Gen AI   

• A fun and open, if a little cricket obsessed, atmosphere  

• Discretionary bonus  

• 25 days of paid holidays + your birthday off   

• Life Assurance (x4 annual salary), Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme  

• Flexible Benefits: Private Medical and Dental, Gym Subsidiaries  

PROCESS  

We have a rigorous recruitment process, which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best talent.     

Please note we are office based which requires our colleagues to be together in the office 5 days a week with flexibility around personal commitments, interests and obligations. This ensures we have the opportunity to continuously collaborate with the whole portfolio to stay connected and grow our community.   

Blenheim Chalcot is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values, thus making it core to our business. We strive to maximise the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from everyone. We encourage diversity through perspective, background, identity, and thought whilst also fostering an environment where everyone can express themselves regardless of your race, religion, sex, gender, colour, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We are committed to continuing to nurture an inclusive environment and building a diverse workforce.