Legal Counsel - Italy And Spain Milano

Legal Counsel - Italy And Spain
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Our purpose is our momentum. It makes us feel good because we know we're doing good. As we lead the way to a greener future, we do it together. We're all about connections - with each other, with our customers and with the world. Just as our platform brings the world together, it's our ambition that connects us. We motivate each other to go beyond our limits, to experiment, to fail and to always grow.

With over 110 million visits every month to our platform and £4. 3 billion in net ticket sales, we're always innovating and making moves towards our final destination — a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

And we couldn't do any of it without our incredible people driving us forward. Today, we're a FTSE 250 company that's proudly home to more than 1000 Trainliners from over 60 nationalities across offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels. It's this diversity that energises us and makes us stronger, helping us to achieve amazing things.

With our sights firmly set on further European growth, there is no better time to jump on board this high-speed train and be part of our continued success.

The focus of the role will be to provide legal support to the business to help with the growth of Trainline's key Italian and Spanish markets. With significant business investment being put into these regions, this is an incredible opportunity to join the Trainline at a time of exciting growth. As the principal legal point of contact for Italy and Spain, you will be instrumental to our expansion plans.

This role will primarily support Trainline's Italian and Spanish brand, marketing, communications, SEO, PPC and product teams. This will include providing the lead legal support on all Trainline's big brand campaigns in those regions (such as TV adverts and high-profile promotions). You will also support the marketing teams on social campaigns and comms teams on press releases, including designing processes to help the business become more efficient as we scale. You will advise on product innovations with the product teams, including on innovative new product features designed to support customers on commutes, in their leisure time and when travelling internationally.

As our Italian and Spanish market counsel, you will be expected to have a good understanding of all areas of commercial law with a particular focus on Italian and Spanish markets and will require a good understanding of Italian consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law, IP, and commercial contracts (Spanish legal knowledge is not a requirement of the role).

Within this broad role, you will also be providing legal support to Trainline's distribution business as well as assisting with regulatory matters in Italian and Spanish markets.

This role requires the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and to shape legal support to reflect the aims and priorities of the business. You will need the ability communicate effectively with internal stakeholders at all levels.

Whilst you will be the principal legal point of contact for Italy and Spain, you will be part of a supportive and collaborative legal team, working closely with other lawyers with similar focuses in other regions. The overall legal team consists of lawyers' supporting the full range of Trainline's business operations with lawyers based in each of Trainline's offices.

**Responsibilities

- Providing overall legal support to the Italian and Spanish brand, marketing, communications, SEO, PPC and product teams business teams (amongst others).

- Specifically providing legal advice in respect of consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law, intellectual property law and commercial contracts.

- Drafting, negotiating and interpreting commercial contracts, mainly in respect of Trainline acting as a customer when procuring services for the above mentioned teams.

- Providing legal support to Trainline's distribution business and assisting with regulatory matters in Italian and Spanish markets.

- Working with limited supervision and taking ownership of Italian and Spanish markets, in respect of the provision of consumer and general legal advice.

**Qualifications

- Italian or English law qualified (Fluent in English and Italian)

- 1-4 years' PQE. PQE to be taken as a guide - can be outside of this range.

- Private practice or in-house experience preferred with a tech/online focus, ideally multi-jurisdictional.

- Experience working in a fast-paced business.

- Strong general understanding of consumer law, e-commerce law, advertising and marketing law, data protection law and commercial contracts.

- Demonstrable team player and must be able to work cross functionally.

- A degree of autonomy and respo