Commercial (Digital Regulation) Senior Associate

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Commercial team in any of our UK offices, with a particular focus on regulatory work including digital regulation, media, advertising and consumer law, as well as Media and Technology contracts. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and advise on high value, strategically important, and often international, projects within a supportive and collegiate environment with lots of room for the development of your career.

The practice

Our lawyers "can always be relied on to provide pragmatic advice which demonstrates a deep understanding" - Legal 500

"They have in-depth knowledge and offer commercially aware advice."-Chambers & Partners

"Osborne Clarke can always be relied on to provide pragmatic advice which demonstrates a deep understanding of our business. They are very attuned to the legal and regulatory risks that we face and the compliance challenges, and are quick to provide practical, real-world guidance on how they can be addressed" -Legal 500

"Everyone I have dealt with at Osborne Clarke has been down to earth, extremely knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with". - Legal 500

Our commercial team:

• Our Commercial group provides leading-edge business solutions to clients, ranging from high growth start-ups to multinationals and covering the entire spectrum of commercial activity. It has a strong reputation both with local and national clients requiring support on strategically important commercial projects.
• This opportunity is to work for the Media team, which sits within the Commercial group.
• To find out more about OC's Commercial practice, please see here: http://www.osborneclarke.com/services/commercial/

Our firm's sector focus:

• As a firm we focus on particular sectors, including financial services, energy and utilities and tech media and comms (TMC) where this role will have a particular focus.
• Within the TMC sector we have a market-leading team whose core focus is Digital Media and Entertainment, working with leading social networks, streaming businesses and other digital platforms, complex technology businesses and disruptive future facing services helping to develop game-changing technologies and innovative business models.
• You can read more about our TMC focus here: https://www.osborneclarke.com/sectors/technology-media-and-communications
• We are ranked as a Tier 1 firm in Media and Entertainment. Legal 500 says: "Osborne Clarke LLP's team 'can always be relied on to provide pragmatic advice which demonstrates a deep understanding' of the industry. It is noted for its strength in handling regulatory, commercial and contentious issues for clients in the advertising, broadcasting, sports and gaming industries. It has particular expertise in the digital content space. Team head Ashley Hurst is a key contact for media and data disputes, while John Davidson-Kelly is recommended for advice on digital media regulation, as well as media and technology agreements. Advertising and marketing law specialist Nick Johnson is praised as 'an expert in his field'. Anna Williams advises on a range of advertising and sponsorship projects. Corporate partner Ken Wilkinson and associate director Ben Dunham are also recommended."

The team

Spanning all three of our UK based offices and working closely together, the Commercial department is made up of over 80 lawyers in total.

This opportunity involves working closely with the Advertising, Media and Consumer team (which is a part of the Commercial team) including Nick Johnson, John Davidson Kelly, Ben Dunham, Anna Williams and Tom Harding.

We work in a proactive, collegiate, fast-paced environment with a focus on increasing the team's knowledge and skill set, utilising legal tech (where possible), building deep relationships with our clients and providing practical advice as an extension of their in-house teams. Essentially we like to do interesting work for interesting clients!

There will also be plenty of scope to work with colleagues across different service lines and in our international offices.

The work

• We work for exciting clients including TikTok, Warner Brothers Discovery, Meta and Microsoft on all manner of commercial agreements (ranging from marketing agreements to content licensing) and regulatory questions (ranging from launching a new product or digital service, to the implementation of new legislation), many of them involving an element of international coordination.
• Interactive entertainment is a key focus of the team. By way of example:
• we continue to advise multinational gaming client Bandai Namco and its group companies on various commercial, regulatory and IP matters over the last year, from advertising and marketing to regulatory compliance checks to virtual currencies to games development and content and rights licensing.
• we advise Miniclip across multiple commercial and regulatory matters, from advertising regulatory compliance checks to partnering deals, to and content regulatory work and rights licensing.
• We also have a large number of "platform clients" (including those listed above) which we advise on a day to day basis including:
• Trip Advisor who we advise on multiple matters from data protection to litigation to consumer regulatory matters.
• Other well-known travel platforms who we advise on international advertising campaigns, loyalty schemes and brand endorsement deals.
• Another key area of focus of the team is working with broadcasters and OTT providers. For example:
• we work with Warner Bros Discovery on a day to day basis on commercial and OTT regulatory issues; and
• we work with clients like Channel 4, DAZN and ITV on various regulatory and commercial issues.
• Finally, we are recognised as tier 1 for our advertising and marketing practice and our long-standing team advise a range of well-known advertisers, advertising agencies and media owners on a range of regulatory issues and contractual matters including:
• advising brands on the terms of sponsorship and brand endorsement deals they enter into;
• innovative advertising techniques and data-driven marketing issues;
• advising brands on strategic decisions involving pricing, environmental claims and comparative advertising; and
• negotiating a range of contracts within the advertising ecosystem between brands, agencies, suppliers, media owners, talent and rights holders which all feed into advertising campaigns.

Technical skills and experience

You will have knowledge and experience across:

• Digital Regulation and Media Regulation, including experience working on issues under legislation such as the Online Safety Act, the Digital Services Act, AVMSD, the Consumer Rights Act and the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations;
• Media and Consumer contracts (eg marketing related agreements, B2C terms and conditions, content licences); and
• Ideally also advertising regulation, including CAP Code compliance and ASA investigations and some working knowledge of GDPR and PECR,

Due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking for a Senior Associate level lawyer with previous experience advising on these issues, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications -if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Rachael Nyein the Recruitment team on 0117 917 4228 or rachael.nye@osborneclarke.com.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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