Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Draft review and negotiate a wide variety of program/content licenses and other commercial agreements for NBC Sports Group and its sports properties including NBC Sports NBC Olympics NBC Sports Regional Networks and their respective websites and other digital platforms. Agreements may include various forms of program or content license agreements with leagues conferences national governing bodies international federations sports teams colleges and other sports content suppliers (including rights/license agreements time buy agreements barter agreements etc.) sponsorship agreements programming development agreements syndication agreements production agreements radio simulcasts and other commercial agreements
- Counsel clients on contractual interpretation advertising and promotional rights production obligations intellectual property usage clearance issues and pre-litigation dispute resolution associated with sports and programming rights
- Work on corporate and transactional matters as necessary in conjunction with corporate development group
- Liaise with and advise TV and Digital distribution teams on rights and clearances associated with network and digital distribution matters
- Present analyses directly to executives and management
Qualifications :
Basic Requirements:
- Law degree from top tier law school
- Member of a state bar in good standing
- Minimum three (3) years related experience at law firm or comparable in-house position
- Capable of providing practical legal advice to members of business team at all levels
Desired Characteristics:
- Must be a team player
- Ability to work independently multi-task successfully and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
- Experience in broadcast media or sports business and/or new media and/or an understanding of television cable industry and/or new media distribution businesses a plus
Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the Stamford CT office a minimum of three days per week.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
