Legal Counsel

As our Legal Counsel - Investment (m/f/d), you will be advising on global investment issues such as potential means for investment, structuring of investment and joint venture transactions, critical negotiations and terms in investment / joint venture deals, and ongoing obligations of NTT Global Data Centers in all investment and joint venture transactions. The role further advises on potential real estate acquisitions, including initial investigations, due diligence, key areas for investigation, title, sale and purchase negotiations and company obligations from these transactions. The role provides guidance to NTT Global Data Center business teams across all forms of investment and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and real estate acquisitions, divestments and financing.

The role will be based in London, is full time and hybrid.

What you will do

• Negotiates, drafts, and finalizes investment joint venture and transactional agreements for the Company
• Advises on investment transactions entered into globally
• Identifies, and where possible mitigates, risk presented by global investment transactions
• Collaborates with NTT GDC Investment team on global investment projects
• Advises NTT GDC in handling of any investment-related disputes in conjunction with in house and outside counsel
• Negotiates real estate transactional agreements for the Company in conjunction with outside counsel
• Advises on real estate transactions entered into globally
• Identifies, and where possible mitigates, risk presented by real estate transactions
• Collaborates with NTT GDC Investment team on global real estate projects

What we are looking for

• Applies experience and professional knowledge to suggest solutions to complex issues
• Contributes to development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
• Able to handle unforeseen issues and propose tactical decisions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good experience in sale and purchase agreements, real estate transactions and negotiations
• Good experience in real estate joint ventures, financing and investment
• Some experience with secured third party debt financing a plus
• Business acumen and the ability to combine legal and business analysis and judgment in a practical manner
• Self-starter, well organized, effectively manages stress in a fast-paced environment and produces consistent, positive results under deadline pressure

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Global Data Centers division of NTT Ltd.

Global Data Centers is a division of NTT Ltd. Our global platform is one of the largest in the world. NTT is ranked as one of the top three leaders worldwide by IDC in their Colocation and Interconnection Services MarketScape, spanning more than 20 countries and regions including North America, Europe, Africa, India and APAC.

As a neutral operator, we offer access to multiple cloud providers, a large variety of Internet Exchanges and telecommunication network providers including our own IPv6 compliant, tier 1 global IP network. Our clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and experience consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our reliable, scalable and customizable data centers.

Working for Global Data Centers EMEA

We are one of the leading and largest data center provider and for more than 20 years we have been supporting our clients from a wide variety of industries with our talented team of nearly 900 people (m/f/d). Today, we are designing and operating 18 data center locations across 160,000 sqm in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain and expanding into further markets. Our people come from a variety of industries and work together to find the best solution for every challenge. Due to the diversity of backgrounds our people (m/f/d) come from, the ability to work in teams and good communication skills are very important to us.

As a performance-oriented company, we value expert knowledge and people who want to shape the future. We are growing internationally and offer our people (m/f/d) the opportunity to work worldwide within the NTT Group if they are suitably qualified and interested.