Paralegal

Created in 2017, The Independents is an entrepreneur-driven community of industry-leading experts, delivering global, connected solutions for luxury, fashion and lifestyle businesses to become culture brands. The Independents brings together a unique, future-fit ecosystem of services for ambitious businesses who seek to impact global culture around 3 key pillars:

Experience: Atelier Athem, Atelier Lum, Bureau Betak, INCA, K2, Kennedy, Prodject We are Ona

Communication, Strategy & influence: 2x4, Ctzar, Karla Otto, Lefty, Lucien Pages, Sunshine, The Qode

Content: Bureau Béatrice, Bureau Future, Sunshine, Terminal 9 Studios

Providing clients with end-to-end solutions to become key culture brands, the group aligns a global perspective with on-the-ground, local insights. As such, the collective is powerfully positioned to offer streamlined strategy, creative services, talent partnerships, influencer marketing, communications and bespoke experiences for leading brands across key markets, by way of its presence in Milano, Paris, London, Munich, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Dubai, Riyadh and Jeddah.

Since June 2023, The Independents Group is backed by Banijay, a FL Entertainment company, and Towerbrook Capital Partners.

Reporting to the Group General Counsel and UK Legal Counsel, the Paralegal plays an important role in many aspects of the legal function of the Group. In particular, the areas of responsibility required of this position encompass:

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating standalone and project based PR representation, social media marketing, content creation and production and event production agreements with clients to ensure their signature on a timely basis;

• Drafting and negotiating NDAs/confidentiality agreements, data protection agreements and talent/influencer agreements;

• Drafting and negotiating third party supply contracts;

• Ongoing reviews of all contractual agreements, ensuring that all deadlines for reviews, renewals, etc. are met;

• Leading contract negotiations from initial instruction to signature;

• Overseeing all filing and record-keeping for all Group agreements;

• Ensuring the contracts database is kept up-to-date;

• Performing research on applicable regulations and laws;

• Providing support to the Group General Counsel or UK Legal Counsel; and

• Providing support with implementation of new company policies and processes.

What will you bring – Essential criteria

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a law department or legal environment, either in-house or in private practice.

Key attributes

• Highly motivated and enthusiastic

• Takes ownership for specific agreements/tasks

• Willing to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to complete the work accurately and on time

• Be able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously and follow through on issues whilst working under pressure to meet deadlines

• Strong communication skills (both written and oral)

• Strong organisational skills

• Strong work ethic and sense of urgency

• Works well with different personality types

• Must be efficient in Microsoft Office suite

• Fluency in written and oral English is essential – knowledge of an additional European language (particularly French) would be helpful but not essential

• Must be eligible to work in the UK