Senior Legal Counsel - France

This is a unique opportunity for a senior media or commercial lawyer to be involved in the rapid growth of our DAZN business in France as it moves to the next level!

Head of Legal France is a key appointment within the wider DAZN Legal function and an important leadership role in the France business in particular. You will be responsible for heading up and growing the legal function on the ground in France providing legal support to all parts of the DAZN business in France.

The role represents a fantastic opportunity to move into one of the most exciting businesses in the sports industry! This is a high profile role for the DAZN business in France offering you the opportunity to raise your profile in the domestic sports market and to lead the Legal function in territory. 

This role reports into SVP Legal (Commercial, Distribution & Regulatory) based in London but also has a dotted line into the CEO, DAZN France.

Key responsibilities:

• Head up the legal support function in France and work with senior business stakeholders in the region as well as the central legal function.
• Provide support to all commercial aspects of the DAZN business in France, which includes supporting the rights, commercial, partnerships, marketing, product, operations and production teams (with assistance from outside counsel, where necessary).
• Be primarily responsible for all consumer, regulatory, labour, piracy and lobbying matters affecting the business from a legal point of view, including management of high profile litigation and other legal proceedings affecting the business from time to time.
• Negotiate, draft and oversee a wide and exciting variety of work, including the negotiation of high value sports rights deals; distribution, sponsorship and advertising agreements with third parties; important contracts with technology service providers. 
• Take responsibility for items which are outside of the normal scope of your remit from time to time.

You'll have:

• French-qualified lawyer with fluent French and English, both verbal and written to legal drafting standard.
• Extensive post-qualification work experience having trained at and subsequently worked in private practice, or a strong in-house team in the media sector.
• Experience of French and EU consumer, media and competition law.
• Experience of copyright licensing, whether relating to the acquisition and/or distribution of content.
• Experience with a wide range of commercial and/or technology services contracts.
• Technical legal skills, especially first-class drafting and interpretative abilities.
• Ability to conduct research and draft reports related to French law.