Legal Counsel (Commercial Property)Permanent PositionReading (Hybrid - 2 or 3 days on-site)About the role :The MBNL in-house legal team provides commercially focused and efficient legal solutions together with risk management support across all areas of the business from property to procurement. The team are responsible for a range of activities including delivering robust and legally sound contracts; dispute resolution and management; and supporting the wider Property and Legal function on all aspects of property acquisition, disposal and estate management. The Legal Counsel (Property) will be responsible for providing high quality, nimble and commercially focused transactional property and property litigation support in relation to ongoing management of a network in excess of 20,000 sites.Key responsibilities:Advise the business on general litigation/property/telecoms issues and general estate management queriesAnalyse legal rights and provide strategic commercially focused advice and/or negotiating (where applicable) with the Site Providers and/or their solicitorDeliver excellent legal solutions on target and to budget ensuring external legal spend is effective and efficientManage external lawyers appointed by MBNL to include approving documentation and ensuring that the external lawyers deliver: (a) to agreed strategy, standards and service levels; (b) within defined timescales; (c) to budget; and (d) with added value, and provide reporting / management information as req