Business & Legal Affairs Counsel

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

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.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-eooky5-216-73-216-118-42 in your application.