[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 act 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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