CORPORATE LAWYER | INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
4 YEARS' PQE MINIMUM AND ABOVE
FULLY REMOTE (MUST BE WITHIN UK)
PERMANENT ROLE
A unique opportunity to do something different with your legal career.
Are you a corporate lawyer with minimum 4+ years' PQE who is passionate about the games industry and interested in building something rather than simply joining another law firm?
We are working with an ambitious, fast-growing specialist advisory business serving independent games studios, publishers, entrepreneurs and businesses operating across the games industry. The business has built a distinctive proposition over its first four years, combining legal, finance and tax expertise under one roof. Its mission is to become the trusted long-term adviser to games entrepreneurs and independent studios, providing the quality of advice they would expect from leading professional services firms, but with a more accessible, responsive and commercially focused approach.
Following strong growth, an excellent client retention record and increasing demand for its services, the business is looking to appoint an experienced Corporate Lawyer to strengthen its existing legal team of 2 and play an important role in its continued development.
The Business: a different approach to professional services
Traditional law firms are often prohibitively expensive, overly transactional and insufficiently responsive for smaller, entrepreneurial games businesses. This business was established to challenge that model. Its integrated approach brings together legal, finance and tax advice, giving clients a single, trusted adviser who understands their business as a whole. Rather than providing isolated advice on individual transactions, the team works alongside founders and management teams throughout the lifecycle of their businesses – from incorporation and early-stage investment through publishing deals, commercial partnerships, growth and, ultimately, exit.
Their culture is based on three core principles:
Exceptional quality: commercially sophisticated, technically excellent advice.
High responsiveness: accessible, engaged advisers who genuinely understand their clients' businesses.
Being nice humans: a collaborative, straightforward and supportive culture, without unnecessary hierarchy or corporate bureaucracy.
The firm has deliberately built a sustainable working culture. Responsiveness and client service are important, but not at the expense of excessive hours or personal wellbeing. Outside core hours, people are trusted to manage their own time and take responsibility for delivering excellent work.
The Opportunity
This is a genuinely hybrid role, combining the breadth and variety of private practice with the deeper client relationships and commercial involvement of an in-house legal position. You will work exclusively within the games ecosystem, advising a diverse portfolio of independent studios, publishers, developers, founders and specialist service providers.
Some relationships will be traditional external legal engagements; others will involve acting as a fractional in-house legal adviser, becoming closely integrated into a client's business and working alongside its leadership team.
A significant part of the role will involve taking responsibility for the corporate legal workload, working closely with the rest of the team, while helping develop and expand the corporate offering. There is also considerable scope to influence how the legal practice develops, build your own client relationships and establish a profile within the games industry.
While we are laser-focussed on candidates with prior specific corporate law expertise, including transactional, this is not a role in which you will be confined to a narrow transactional specialism. You will have the opportunity to apply your corporate expertise in a commercially engaged environment, alongside exposure to a broad range of commercial and operational legal issues.
Technical requirements – essential…