legora - Senior Legal Lead - Commercial (EMEA)
Requirements
• Law degree (LL.M. or equivalent) from Sweden, or an EU-jurisdiction, qualified to practice in that country. • 10+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house, including experience leading, mentoring or managing lawyers. • Deep experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and supporting commercial teams. You are an excellent negotiator. • Strong legal judgment and the confidence to make decisions independently and to stand behind them with senior stakeholders. • Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements; corporate matters experience is valuable. • A focus on business outcomes: you turn legal analysis into clear, actionable advice. • Comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, taking initiative and managing work across time zones. • Genuine interest in AI and legal tech, and the curiosity to apply these tools in day-to-day legal work.
Responsibilities
• Lead and develop the EMEA commercial legal team: set priorities, coach team members, and build a culture of pragmatic, business-minded lawyering. • Act as the senior legal partner to Growth on strategic customer engagements. • Lead the drafting, review and negotiation of complex customer contracts, and handle escalations from the team. • Own the approach to commercial risk allocation, pricing structures, liability and contractual protections. • Build scalable, repeatable contracting practices by developing and maintaining templates, playbooks and negotiation guidelines that raise deal velocity. • Manage data protection and compliance considerations within commercial contracting, so risk is handled without slowing execution. • Work with legal leadership on team structure, hiring and ways of working as the EMEA function scales.
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