Generalist Lawyer

**Why this job matters**
- The Generalist Lawyer executes a range of activities in the delivery of commercial legal advice across multiple functions.**What you’ll be doing**
- 1. Supports partnerships with senior commercial leadership supporting the commercial law director's legal advice contributions into long range strategy.
- 2. Collaborates with legal peers in the execution of impactful counsel concerning a broad range of global legal issues.
- 3. Contributes to both legal as well as commercial outcomes on matters relating to commercial and technology law and related business operations.
- 4. Organises legal tenders, bids and procurements of products and services.- 6. Executes day-to-day legal activity such as defining processes and procedures for commercial contracts and implementing best practice under the guidance of the General Counsel and Company Secretary.
- 7. Assist other lawyers with executing structure, draft, review and negotiate complex customer agreements, including identifying legal and business risks and recommending solutions.
- 8. Mentors other Commercial Law professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
- 9. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Commercial Law.**The skills you’ll need**
- Storytelling- Documentation Drafting- Case Management- Risk Management- Legal Research- Negotiation- Commercial Law- Commercial Acumen- Legal Due Diligence- Legal Analysis- Legal Advisory- Business Partnering & Consulting- Commercial Litigation- Company Secretarial Administration- Decision Making- Growth Mindset- Contract Management- Inclusive Leadership**British Telecommunications (BT)**

**Title**:
**Junior Lawyer LATAM**

**Location: Bogota, Colombia**

**Please submit your CV in English**

**High English Skills is mandatory for the position.**

**Key Purpose of the Role**:
This role entails advising and providing support on LATAM telecommunications regulatory and commercial legal matters though the role holder will work primarily on regulatory matters and report to the Senior Regulatory Lawyer-Americas based in Mexico City or Bogota.

**Special Requirements**
- A law degree is a requirement as is bar admission in Mexico or Colombia with** 2+ years** of post-admission experience.
- **Excellent **oral and written communications skills are required in **English** and Spanish. Proficiency in Portuguese would be an advantage.

**Activities**

Sixty to seventy percent of the new hire’s time should be spent on regulatory matters. The role holder would undertake, amongst other responsibilities, the following:

- Advise clearly and concisely about information to be provided to regulators, why the information needs to be provided and the impacts for BT if it fails to do so. BT has a portfolio of telecoms licenses in Latin America which are maintained in part by filing hundreds of reports with telecoms regulators annually providing information about BT’s activities in each country and paying relevant fees to regulators. The lawyer in this role must learn from the Senior Regulatory Lawyer-Americas in Mexico City and become expert on the laws and regulations that underpin telecoms regulatory compliance filings.
- Train the support team in India, who are English-speaking only, or any other support teams identified by the business, to provide efficient support for telecoms regulatory compliance filings including by (i) translating forms to be filed; (ii) explaining the legal requirements; (iii) monitoring changes in regulations; (iv) providing deadlines for filings; and (v) transferring to support team as many repeatable, non-legal tasks as possible that relate to compliance filings.
- Ensure all telecoms regulatory compliance filings that BT entities are obligated to file in LATAM are completed and filed on a timely basis.
- Maintain an updated spreadsheet of LATAM filings.
- Maintain an updated spreadsheet of licences and expiration dates, and alert on a timely basis when renewals are due.
- Support the Senior Regulatory Lawyer-Americas with audits, investigations, inquiries conducted by regulators and ministries.
- Monitor the trade press for relevant regulatory news.
- Support the Senior Regulatory Lawyer-Americas in Mexico City in providing counsel on regulations as they impact bids, contracts, product deployments or removals, network deployments or removals, acquisitions or disposals.
- Execute plans to mitigate risks.
- Monitor regulators’ rules, processes and procedures regarding regulatory filings and other obligations relevant to BT’s business and inform line management and other stakeholders of relevant developments.
- The role holder must also support on commercial legal matters which entail working on customer or supplier commercial contracts. She/he must be able to: (i) provide business-oriented advice on commercial law matters including risk analysis of legal issues and cases and (i