Legal Counsel, Group Legal

Pantheon

Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for an innovative approach to investing in secondaries, co-investments, and primary fund investments, as well as capital formation across commingled funds, evergreen vehicles and customized solutions. Our specialist investment capabilities span multiple strategies across private equity, infrastructure and real assets, and private credit. Through our collaborative and committed culture, we find new ways to solve complex problems together and deliver innovative investment opportunities across private markets. Pantheon currently manages approximately $82.3 billion in AUM across all its strategies, serving more than 750 institutional and 638 private wealth clients worldwide For further details please visit www.pantheon.com Purpose of the Position  The overall purpose of my role at Pantheon is to provide in-house legal advice and support to the business by assisting with the establishment and fundraising of Pantheon funds and separate account programmes, assisting with general corporate group, regulatory and compliance matters and assisting the various investment team divisions with investment related work. Key Responsibilities:  Fund Raising: * Establishing Pantheon funds and assisting in their fundraising; advising on fund structure; drafting / reviewing fund documentation (LPAs, PPMs, side letters, etc.); co-ordinating investor closings; fund maintenance work * Assisting with segregated account programmes – drafting / reviewing / negotiating term sheets, investment management agreements and segregated limited partnership agreements * Coordinating with internal marketing and investor relations teams, independent boards of directors, external counsel and administrators in respect of the launch, marketing/fundraising and maintenance of the Pantheon funds * Preparing and maintaining various Pantheon fund/client checklists Corporate and Regulatory: * Working alongside the Compliance team on issues connected with all UK/European regulatory aspects of Pantheon’s business (e.g. AIFMD and related issues around filings and marketing passports); keeping up to date on new European legislation relevant to fund structuring and management * Identification, interpretation and application of applicable UK laws, rules and regulations * Drafting / reviewing / negotiating a wide range of contracts (including commercial agreements, contracts with service providers, and statements of work) * Advising staff of legal and regulatory requirements/boundaries/risks * Supervising and educating external counsels on Pantheon practices * Liaising with applicable regulatory authorities * Attending to other general Pantheon group corporate matters Investment Work: * Assisting the various investment team divisions (primary, secondary, co-investment, infrastructure) in relation to investment transactions; assisting with queries on NDAs, fund / transaction terms * Preparing and maintaining various Pantheon investment checklists Knowledge and Experience Required: * Good ‘A’ Level (or equivalent) * Either an undergraduate Law degree, or any undergraduate degree plus a Graduate Diploma in Law * Qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales. * English qualified solicitors must maintain a practising certificate. Part of maintaining a practising certificate is to undertake regular learning and development to ensure that skills and knowledge remain up to date. An annual declaration that this has been done must be made to the Solicitors Regulatory Authority.  * Must have relevant post-qualification experience obtained in a top 10 (or equivalent) law firm or in-house position This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. You may be required to perform other job-related duties as reasonably requested by your manager. Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't perfectly align we'd still encourage you to apply.

HSPG

Essentials Benefits Role: Junior Legal Counsel * 25 holiday days per year * 4 Me Days per year Platform: PPHA and Seahorse * Team social events and trips * Wellness allowance of £70 per month Status: Full time, permanent * Private healthcare with Vitality * Mintago financial platform Base: London. We work 4 days in the office, 1 WFH. * Drive Electric salary sacrifice * Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave Salary: TBD * Employee referral scheme, £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice Bonus: up to 15% Start: ASAP HSPG: A social impact real estate company Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities. There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community. We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below. Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners. HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core Behaviours: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core mission As Junior Legal Counsel, your core mission is to support the successful execution of HSPG’s real estate transactions, ensuring legal processes progress efficiently and commercially. You will be an integral member of the legal team, managing and progressing a wide range of transactional and operational legal matters across the business, including loan drawdowns, acquisitions, disposals, leasing and legal support. You will enable commercial decision-making by providing practical legal guidance. This is a hands-on and execution-focused role. You will take ownership of the detail and coordination required to keep matters moving – ensuring nothing is dropped or left unresolved. You will work closely with internal teams, external lawyers and stakeholders and will proactively manage relationships and hold all parties to account to achieve seamless transaction execution aligned with HSPG’s strategic objectives. You will support with legal research, drafting and process improvement across the legal function, helping the business scale efficiently with the implementation of innovative and tech-enabled processes and strategies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accountability You are accountable for: * Optimising drawdown and condition precedent processes to ensure efficient delivery across the group’s financing arrangements * Proactively working with external advisers and pursuing outstanding deal items to ensure timely execution * Supporting the legal team in providing clear, structured guidance to stakeholders * You are not accountable for: * Assessing the financial viability of transactions * Duplicating work undertaken by external lawyers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specific experience 1. Qualified solicitor practising at a UK law firm or in-house and specialising in real estate (around NQ-2PQE). In-house experience is helpful but not essential. 2. Experience leading and supporting residential and/or commercial real estate portfolio acquisitions, disposals, and financing is essential. Transactional experience in the Affordable Housing sector is beneficial but not essential. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.  * Communication: you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, providing clear and concise instructions – tailoring your communication style depending on whether you are speaking to external lawyers, internal non-legal deal teams or otherwise. * Analytical: you focus on synthesising complex legal issues into simple information to be understood by non-lawyers internally and externally. * Efficiency: you are obsessed with achieving optimal efficiency for you and your team and constantly tweak/revamp legal processes to optimise all aspects of the work that you do to ensure all timelines are met. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.  * Emotional intelligence: you understand every relationship you’re working with deeply. As part of the legal team, you understand who makes the commercial decisions, who drives the business, what they want in order to feel like they’ve succeeded and whether our businesses are aligned to achieve this. * Meticulous: you have phenomenal attention to detail and ensure that legal documentation is watertight and captures all the information required. * Resilient: you have the capacity to keep making informed and timely decisions whilst under pressure, and you truly enjoy providing both legal and strategic input for internal and external stakeholders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90-day wins Early traction and strategic control. * Gain a solid understanding of HSPG's strategy and mission and be able to take ownership of discrete workstreams. * Foster good working relationships with our main panel firms. * Successfully drive forward: * one property acquisition to exchange/completion; and * one financing drawdown to completion. * Have assisted in streamlining at least one significant transaction process to increase efficiency (including incorporating AI into our processes). 12-month impact outcomes Material impact and results within first 12 months. * Have a comprehensive understanding of the wider business and drive at least 15 acquisition and/or drawdown processes to completion. * Maintain strong working relationships with our main panel firms. * Have implemented the streamlining of at least two significant transaction processes to increase efficiency (including incorporating AI into our processes). * Be an integral part of the team providing advice on a wide range of legal queries – including at least three queries from each of the sales, acquisitions, investment and management teams.

Baringa

ABOUT BARINGA  Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. OUR COMMERCIAL LEGAL TEAM ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED SENIOR COMMERCIAL COUNSEL TO JOIN THEM.  Commercial Legal partners with the business, providing specialised legal, commercial and risk management support to enable confident growth. Everything from shaping and negotiating client contracts, to data, technology and AI deals, partnerships and contract risk.  This role will report into the Commercial Legal Director, working closely with the Legal & Business Integrity and Baringa Enablement teams and wider firm leadership. It is a senior, team-leadership role: you will lead and line-manage a team of commercial lawyers – setting priorities, overseeing their work and supporting their development – alongside running your own caseload. We are looking for a high-energy senior commercial lawyer, with strong experience in digital contracting (data, technology delivery, AI, cloud, etc) and the ability to lead and develop a team, to join Baringa’s Commercial Legal team.   WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING * Leading and line-managing a team of commercial lawyers – allocating and overseeing work, managing performance, and supporting their development and progression.  * Acting as a senior lawyer in the Commercial Legal team, leading on complex digital deals (data, technology delivery, AI and cloud) across a broad range of commercial contracts.  * Supporting the wider Legal team and Baringa business with best practice guidance, continuous improvement and training.  * Preparing and negotiating contracts, working closely with the consultancy staff and engagement partner. These will include One-off Services Agreements, Framework Agreements, Licence Agreements, Sub-contracts, etc.  * Delivering contract risk analysis to Baringa’s senior management and arranging for escalation of higher risk contract items to Baringa’s wider Sector Lead group for approval.  * Critically evaluating, challenging and updating Baringa’s Contract Risk Scorecard positions.   * Liaising with Baringa’s insurance brokers to ensure client contract language during negotiation remains within coverage.  * Coaching, developing and supporting the lawyers in your team, helping them grow and progress their careers at Baringa.  This is a critical role in the Baringa Commercial Legal team, working directly with partners and senior leadership across the firm, and coordinating with others across Baringa Enablement (People, Finance, Data, IT, Infosec and others).   YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE *  Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales or a commonwealth country, with a minimum of 6 years of post-qualification experience.  * Strong commercial law experience with deep, demonstrable expertise in digital contracting – cloud, data, AI and technology delivery and implementation. This digital experience is essential and central to the role.  * Confident negotiator with the skillset to handle complex discussions with large international clients, banks and their external law firm advisors.  * Understanding of international business practices and cultures.  * Proven ability to lead, line-manage and develop a team of lawyers, and to work effectively with senior stakeholders.  * Strong commercial risk assessment and sound, pragmatic judgement – able to identify, weigh and clearly articulate legal and commercial risk and make confident recommendations to senior stakeholders.  * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal and contractual issues for non-legal audiences and to deliver clear guidance and training.  * Highly organised and resilient, able to manage a varied caseload, prioritise effectively and deliver to deadlines in a fast-paced environment while overseeing the work of the team.  * A continuous-improvement mindset, including developing precedents, playbooks and best-practice guidance; familiarity with legal technology and contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools is an advantage.  * Working knowledge of the data protection and regulatory issues relevant to data, technology and AI contracting.  WHAT A CAREER AT BARINGA WILL GIVE YOU  PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST. BARINGA IS A PEOPLE FIRST COMPANY AND WELLBEING IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR CULTURE. WE RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING AND PROVIDE OUR STAFF AMAZING BENEFITS. SOME OF THESE BENEFITS INCLUDE:  * Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.  * Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.  * Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.  * Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.  * Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.  AN AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.  USING BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD.  We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.  We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have. JOIN US All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.   BARINGA PRIVACY NOTICES For UK & EU Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com For the USA Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com For Australia & Singapore Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com