Interim Commercial Counsel

Interim Commercial Counsel focuses on demonstrable experience handling exchange and non‑exchange data‑licensing agreements.

Skills and requirements

• Demonstrable experience handling exchange and non‑exchange data‑licensing agreements.
• Experience in contract repapering, remediation, or regulatory uplift.
• A background in financial services - such as financial regulation teams, banks, asset managers, or market‑infrastructure firms.
• Strongmercial contracting and negotiation skills.

Confirmed role details

• A leading global investment organisation is seeking an interim legal professional to join on a full‑time, rolling 3‑month contract.
• Play a key role within a lean but highly effective legal function, taking ownership of a specialist portfolio of work focused on market‑data licencing, contract repapering, and reg.

Additional role context

• Update, streamline, and repaper a broad suite of market‑data licencing agreements across both exchange and non‑exchange providers.
• Managing updates to agreements with market‑data vendors, index providers, and other data sources.
• Supporting the development of a stronger, more independent contractual andernance structure for data usage within the business.