Commercial Lawyer

Location: Belfast

Workplace: Hybrid

The opportunity:

The Commercial Lawyer will work on high value and complex matters, developing skills to deliver the highest quality service for our world-class clients across the globe. You will develop strong working relationships with partners and lawyers in all sectors/departments in a variety of jurisdictions and contribute to the identification of innovative services and methods to assist in achieving efficiencies and continual process improvement.

Working at Baker McKenzie:

Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.

We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.

About the role:

As part of this role, the successful candidate will:

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for providing support to a number of the Firm's practices, primarily the commercial, data, information and technology practice across multiple jurisdictions. The Belfast team also works with members of the Corporate Support Group and Contentious Support Group in the Firm's Belfast Centre, in a "one team" approach, assisting with bespoke projects other than billable matters, as required.

The successful candidate will be an experienced commercial solicitor with a track record of dealing with a wide variety of legal issues and an ability to hit the ground running who can offer pragmatic, sensible legal advice to a high standard and to challenging deadlines.

Skills and Experience:

• Qualified as a Lawyer in England & Wales or Northern Ireland
• Strong experience in a broad range of commercial contracts, including: supply agreements, manufacturing agreements; advising on consumer law matters, due diligence projects, data protection
• Experience in any of IT agreements, software licensing, data protection, intellectual property would be desirable
• Strong communication skills
• Sound commercial awareness
• Ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence
• Strong attention to detail - get it right first time
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and online research tools
• Excellent writing and organisation skills - used to balancing work priorities and managing deadlines
• Good decision-making and communication skills
• Able to work well in both a team and individually, with others of various experience levels