Senior Legal Counsel
We are now looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal Team at Relax Gaming! In this role you will provide proactive legal advice across a broad range of business matters, including corporate governance, commercial, software licensing, intellectual property, and data protection issues. You will report to our General Counsel and work closely with product, marketing, finance, compliance, and IT teams and you will identify legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate them while supporting business objectives. This role is ideal for a professional with at least 6 years of post-qualification experience, with exposure to the gaming and technology industries being a plus. We are looking for someone to join in either of these three office locations: Isle of Man, Malta or Gibraltar.
- Provide proactive legal advice on a wide range of business matters, covering corporate, commercial, intellectual property, licensing and data protection issues.
- Identify legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate them while supporting business objectives.
- Draft and review various commercial agreements, including software licensing agreements, vendor agreements, data processing agreements and partnership deals.
- Ensure contracts comply with legal and regulatory requirements while protecting the company’s interests.
- Manage contract disputes and assist in resolution strategies and dealing with any other post-contractual legal issues that may arise.
- Support corporate governance matters, including the drafting of resolutions and internal policies.
- Develop and implement internal legal policies and support the development and delivery of legal training programs to promote best practices across the organization and to manage legal risks.
- Assisting with updating and creating legal templates.
- Work closely with Product, Marketing, Compliance, Commercial, Finance and IT/Security teams to ensure alignment in new product launches and business initiatives and adherence to industry standards and best business practices.
- Support and advise the business in data protection and privacy matters.
- Assisting with any additional tasks according to the needs of the company.
- Qualified solicitor/lawyer/advocate with at least 6 years PQE either in-house or within a private practice law firm (required).
- Corporate commercial and data privacy experience (required).
- Analytical, with a creative, hands-on and pragmatic mindset (required).
- Self-driven with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them through to completion, while prioritising workload accordingly (required).
- Positive team player with strong communication skills and who enjoys a multicultural and multinational environment (required).
- Motivated and proactive with a desire to learn, and with a keen eye and attention to detail (required).
- Ability to uphold a high standard of work ethic, always ensuring to complete assigned tasks accurately and in a timely manner (required).
- Excellent contract negotiation, drafting, communication, risk assessment and legal advisory skills (required).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth industry and to manage multiple legal priorities, and to prioritise competing workloads and tight deadlines (required).
- Strong business acumen and the ability to support commercial strategy while managing legal risks (required).
- High level of independence and accountability and ability to act under limited supervision (required).
- Exposure to the gaming and technology industries (nice-to-have).
- World-class Colleagues
- Value Driven Company
- Opportunities to Grow
- A 'Relaxed' Environment
Relax Gaming is a business-to-business iGaming supplier and content aggregator, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Malta. It develops its own slots, poker and bingo products and distributes thousands of third-party casino games through its Silver Bullet and Powered By partner programmes. Owned by the Kindred Group (now part of FDJ United), the company runs game studios in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Malmö and Stockholm, with additional offices across Europe and Gibraltar. Relax Gaming supplies regulated online casino operators worldwide.