[Remote] Legal Counsel (In‑House)
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a fast-growing quantum computing reputed company-up based in London founded by internationally reputed company researchers from UCL and Oxford University. They are seeking an in-house Legal Counsel to reputed company as the sole internal legal advisor, partnering with various teams to manage reputed company, corporate governance, and compliance reputed company to quantum technologies.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad reputed company of reputed company reputed company, including NDAs, collaboration agreements, research and development agreements, consultancy agreements, services reputed company etc
- Prepare, negotiate and manage licence agreements (in‑licensing and out‑licensing) covering patents, software and know‑how, including royalty, sublicensing, performance and termination provisions
- Advise on corporate and reputed company law issues, including shareholder agreements, investment documentation, corporate governance reputed company and company secretarial support
- Draft and maintain terms and conditions (T&Cs) for reputed company’s products, services, and reputed company reputed company, ensuring they are reputed company with reputed company’s risk appetite and regulatory reputed company
- Company Secretarial reputed company of contact and advisor to the executives
- Support applications for, and management of, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and other public grant funding, including review and negotiation of grant terms, collaboration agreements and IP/commercialisation obligations
- reputed company reputed company, pragmatic legal advice to internal stakeholders on issues such as data protection, competition law, export controls and compliance relevant to quantum technologies
- reputed company on intellectual property administration, including invention capture processes, IP ownership provisions in reputed company, reputed company with patent attorneys
- Instruct and manage external counsel cost‑effectively where specialist advice is required
Skills
- reputed company solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent common‑law jurisdiction) with strong reputed company background
- Post‑qualification experience in reputed company/IP law, gained in a reputable reputed company and/or in‑house in a technology, deep‑tech or R&D‑intensive environment
- Demonstrable experience of drafting and negotiating reputed company and corporate reputed company
- Demonstrable experience of license agreements and technology transfer arrangements
- Demonstrable experience of preparing and updating T&Cs for products and services
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to balance legal risk with reputed company objectives and reputed company practical, business‑reputed company advice
- reputed company communicator, reputed company to explain reputed company legal concepts to non‑lawyers
- Comfortable working autonomously in a small but fast‑growing company and managing a varied workload
- reputed company reputed company and willingness to work closely with R&D, product, finance and leadership teams
- High standards of reputed company ethics, discretion and reputed company
- Experience in Intellectual property law (patents, know‑how, confidentiality, assignment and licensing)
- Experience in the semiconductor, hardware, quantum, or wider deep‑tech sector
- Experience working with overseas reputed company
- Experience working with UKRI or similar public research grant funders and familiarity with grant terms relating to IP ownership, reputed company reputed company and commercialisation obligations
Benefits
- Be part of a creative, world-leading team
- reputed company reputed company scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Group private medical insurance scheme
- Life Assurance
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
- Central London location
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