Senior Corporate Counsel (EMEA)

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across six markets in North America and six markets in Europe, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. Vantage’s business is growing exponentially through a combination of greenfield market expansion and acquisitions across North America and Europe.

Position Description

The Senior Corporate Counsel (EMEA) is responsible for global legal assistance of all client agreements, including large, complex data center leases and service agreements.  In addition to providing excellent legal expertise and assistance, the candidate must bring a proactive, business and solution-oriented mindset to legal matters, an enterprise lens and a proven ability to work collaboratively across the organization.  Ideal candidates for this role will have data center or telecommunications expertise, both international in-house and law firm experience, strong business acumen, enterprise leadership, passion for growing a business and experience in continuous improvement and driving enhancements that benefit the Company. 

Essential Job Functions

• Provide legal guidance and negotiation expertise with respect to large, complex data center transactions on a global basis.
• Work with cross-functional teams to gather input and consensus on technical, operational and compliance aspects of data center transactions.
• Be a strategic partner by providing practical, business focused and sound legal advice to Sales, Finance and Operations teams.
• Provide proactive and strategic level advice that enables Vantage to achieve its business and strategic objectives while fully and appropriately managing and leveraging legal risk.
• Responsible for assisting all legal matters involving client relationships.

Duties

• Draft and negotiate large, complex agreements with hyperscalers and other enterprise clients, including, without limitation, letters of intent, data center lease agreements, colocation agreements, master service agreements, service orders and repeatable lease templates.
• Develop, implement and manage process improvements in the client negotiation process and resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships.
• Support global legal strategy for commercial contracts with clients, including contract management and governance.
• Responsible for legal work and supervision of outside counsel associated with client contracts and related agreements, including analysis, drafting and other matters related to these agreements.
• Provide legal analysis of client contracts in support of certain business development transactions, including document review and due diligence.
• Provide legal guidance with respect to compliance initiatives for client agreements.
• Develop and update client-related agreement templates and provide counseling on the use of such templates.
• Support global Sales, Finance and Operations teams.

Job Requirements

• Qualified and registered solicitor or attorney in the UK.
• Considerable relevant legal experience.
• Experience within the data center or telecommunications industry strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of commercial real estate.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-rounded commercial lawyer who is also a practical and business-minded executive.
• Strong communication, negotiation and legal writing skills. Good personal and management skills.
• Ability to navigate seamlessly between being highly strategic and hands on.
• Excellent organization and problem-solving skills that enable the candidate to juggle multiple responsibilities at once and consistently meet tight deadlines.
• Impeccable integrity, credibility, character and ethics.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer