Commercial Legal Operations and Governance Lead

This role owns legal operations and company secretarial across a multi-entity group, acting as the central point of control for compliance, documentation and corporate processes. It offers early exposure to live transactions and structuring work within a fast-paced, high-responsibility environment with clear progression.

Client Details

Our client is a central management platform supporting a group of affiliated businesses operating across venture building, financial advisory and strategic projects. The organisation provides shared legal, corporate and operational infrastructure across a growing, multi-entity group.

They are seeking a Legal Operations Associate to take ownership of company secretarial and legal operations across the group. This is a high-responsibility, execution-focused role offering early exposure to transactions, corporate structuring and live commercial activity within a fast-paced environment.

This opportunity will suit a detail-oriented individual who is comfortable managing multiple priorities, taking ownership of critical processes and operating with a high degree of autonomy.

Description

Key Responsibilities:

The Legal Operations Associate will act as the central point of control for legal and corporate processes across a complex group structure. Responsibilities will include:

• Ownership of company secretarial and statutory compliance across multiple UK entities
• Management of Companies House filings, statutory registers and corporate records
• Legal documentation and contract management across the group
• Supporting entity formations, restructurings and corporate structuring initiatives
• Transaction support on financings, restructurings and related corporate activity
• Coordination with finance teams to ensure alignment between legal records, filings and accounts
• Maintenance of accurate, well-organised legal and corporate documentation

This role carries meaningful responsibility and visibility from the outset.

What Success Looks Like

• All statutory filings and corporate records are accurate, complete and on time
• Legal and corporate structures across the group are clean and well-maintained
• Contracts and legal documentation are consistently in place and easy to retrieve
• Transactions are supported efficiently with minimal operational friction

Profile

The successful candidate is likely to have:

• Approximately 2 years’ experience in a relevant role (commercial contracts management, legal operations with entity management)
• Ideally coming from an early stage and/or high growth start up and experience from one of the following:
  • A law firm environment (paralegal or trainee level)
  • A corporate services or company secretarial provider
  • An in-house legal or operational role within a smaller or growing business
• Hands-on experience managing statutory filings and UK compliance requirements
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, with experience handling multiple entities or deadlines simultaneously
• A basic understanding of company accounts and financial statements
• A practical, execution-focused mindset rather than a purely academic or advisory approach

Job Offer

The Role Environment

The role sits within a small, high-output team working across multiple live projects. The culture is output-driven and collaborative, with flexibility around deadlines driven by deal execution and business needs. In-office presence in London is expected to support close collaboration (this can be flexible depending on candidate location however you will be expected to attend the office regularly).

Career Development

The position offers a clear progression pathway toward a senior legal operations or company secretarial role at group level, with increasing exposure to transaction support, corporate structuring and strategic projects over time.