Senior Legal Counsel, DAZN
France
Live sports streaming service
Open for applications
Live sports streaming service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
DAZN's mission is to connect fans to the sports they love, their way.
Role
Who you are
- French-qualified lawyer with fluent French and English, both verbal and written to legal drafting standard
- Extensive post-qualification work experience having trained at and subsequently worked in private practice, or a strong in-house team in the media sector
- Experience of French and EU consumer, media and competition law
- Experience of copyright licensing, whether relating to the acquisition and/or distribution of content
- Experience with a wide range of commercial and/or technology services contracts
- Technical legal skills, especially first-class drafting and interpretative abilities
- Ability to conduct research and draft reports related to French law
What the job involves
- Head of Legal France is a key appointment within the wider DAZN Legal function and an important leadership role in the France business in particular.
- You will be responsible for heading up and growing the legal function on the ground in France providing legal support to all parts of the DAZN business in France
- The role represents a fantastic opportunity to move into one of the most exciting businesses in the sports industry!
- This is a high profile role for the DAZN business in France offering you the opportunity to raise your profile in the domestic sports market and to lead the Legal function in territory
- This role reports into SVP Legal (Commercial, Distribution & Regulatory) based in London but also has a dotted line into the CEO, DAZN France
- Head up the legal support function in France and work with senior business stakeholders in the region as well as the central legal function
- Provide support to all commercial aspects of the DAZN business in France, which includes supporting the rights, commercial, partnerships, marketing, product, operations and production teams (with assistance from outside counsel, where necessary)
- Be primarily responsible for all consumer, regulatory, labour, piracy and lobbying matters affecting the business from a legal point of view, including management of high profile litigation and other legal proceedings affecting the business from time to time
- Negotiate, draft and oversee a wide and exciting variety of work, including the negotiation of high value sports rights deals; distribution, sponsorship and advertising agreements with third parties; important contracts with technology service providers
- Take responsibility for items which are outside of the normal scope of your remit from time to time
Our take
DAZN is a sports streaming subscription service providing full coverage of every game in a league, with commentary from the home country it’s being shown in.
Referred to as the "Netflix of sport", DAZN has pursued an aggressive strategy of buying up popular, undervalued sports rights and launched quickly into new markets since launching in 2016. This has meant they were able to monopolise the television rights for combat sports like boxing and NFL. They now stream nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year.
The company is also boosted by its sizeable B2B activities, which includes providing streaming and data to other sports broadcasters, betting firms and publishers. DAZN also owns Goal.com, a football website with 100 million users, and Opta, a well-known sports analytics company.
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Company benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years)
- Nnual performance-related bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contributions up to 5%
- Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
- Learning and development resources
- Opportunity for flexible working
- Internal speaker series and events
Company values
- AMBITIOUS - Everyone here wants to make a big impact at a personal, company and customer level
- INVENTIVE - Pushing boundaries, never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers
- PASSIONATE - This means showing commitment and pride in what we do every day
- BRAVE - You need to get stuck in. Bring initiative but don’t be afraid of asking for help
- SUPPORTIVE - We look out for each other and strive for inclusion and diversity in all we do
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
James Rushton
(Co-founder)He held leadership positions at Perform group for over 16 years
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