Careers at Alden Legal

Alden Legal is now looking to recruit ambitious solicitors and consultants with experience at all levels from well-regarded firms with the following expertise:​

(i) telecoms regulatory (with space/satellite if possible) experience dealing with satellite or telecoms clients and issues, UK regulators (such as the UK Space Agency and Ofcom) and/or other international regulatory agencies (eg. the ITU);

(ii) international commercial contract experience covering areas such as technology development, procurement and services, intellectual property and data management – contract advisory, drafting and negotiation as well as regulatory aspects; and/or

(iii) detailed international project management experience in the space and/or telecoms sector, managing a team across several countries on commercial strategy and policy issues with the ability and willingness to grow the practice.

Alden Legal can offer the opportunity to join, and grow with, a small and busy team in the fast developing area of space and satellite related work (across diverse subject matters), with the benefit of working with the market leader in the sector. We have a strong and growing client-base and pipeline of work and can offer an exciting and market leading role, outside of a big firm environment, for ambitious lawyers and consultants with a real interest in the sector and developing their careers in the field.

As you will have seen from our website, our business focuses on advising the space, satellite and telecommunications sector across all of upstream satellite and component manufacturing, UK based and international launch facilities, in-orbit and spectrum regulation and downstream commercial applications of communications, data and imagery. Our work often expands into adjacent sectors and areas however.

We’re hiring:

– Executive Assistant

We are looking for an articulate, well organised, team-working, good-with-people, computer-literate, problem-solving, hard-working EA for a small but very busy team – covering many different areas of work.

Alden Legal can offer the opportunity to join, and grow with, a small and busy team in the fast-developing area of space and satellite-related work (across diverse subject matters), with the benefit of working with the market leader in the sector. We have a strong and growing client base and pipeline of work and can offer an exciting and dynamic role, which will also cover assisting to organise the events for a student mentoring program called Prospero Space Fellowship.

This role will be based in Fulham, London, with office presence encouraged two to three days per week. We are happy to consider a part-time arrangement.

If this is of interest to you, we should be pleased to hear from you.

Please contact either Joanne Wheeler or Alex Monk with summary information about you and your interest in Alden Legal in order to enquire further.

 

Candidates will need to have strong pedigree in terms of academics and previous firm credentials, together with excellent client relationship and communication skills and a desire and aptitude to take on a variety of cutting edge work. They will need to have a flexible “can do” attitude, willingness to learn and get stuck into a new field and be able to work well within a high-performing small team in this niche sector.

If this is of interest to you, we should be pleased to hear from you.

Please contact either Joanne Wheeler or Alex Monk with summary information about you and your interest in Alden Legal in order to enquire further.

Many thanks for your interest.​