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Director of Legal Affairs EMEA & APAC - Cambridge, England

Location: Cambridge, England

Director of Legal Affairs EMEA & APAC (Maternity Cover)
Location: Cambridge
Ref: LC Mat

Job Purpose
To provide in-house legal expertise, co-ordination and implementation on Intellectual Property and Commercial law issues for nCipher Corporation Ltd, its subsidiaries in EMEA and APAC and to provide support as required to nCipher Inc.
Additional Information
This is a maternity position covering the post holder - Lisa Clausen.

nCipher has a legal team in the UK and USA who together provide support to the business globally. Whilst the two teams work independently, there may be requirements to share work across time zones in order that business critical contracts are prepared and legal issues resolved in a timely manner.

The role will not involve travel. Given the nature of the work, homeworking will be difficult, but may be considered. The role is supported by a Legal Affairs Officer. There will however be no formal line management responsibility for this role.

Role (Accountabilities)

You will be responsible for:

� Managing the legal administration of the Company's intellectual property portfolio
� Drafting and / or reviewing commercial, legal or intellectual property agreements that the Company intends to commit to with customers, partners and re-sellers
� Negotiating terms for proposed agreements and drafting bespoke agreements where required
� Managing the resolution of patent, export and licensing issues
� Managing the resolution of Trademark issues
� Advising on and co-ordinating the Company's use of external legal expertise where required
� Liaising with Sales and Administration and Finance teams to ensure sales orders are processed under the correct legal terms
� Liaising with the Director of Legal Affairs (US) to ensure Legal requests are dealt with in a timely manner across the Group companies
� Assisting the CFO by researching and administering the legal and compliance requirements of doing business in different territories
� In collaboration with the Director of Legal Affairs (US) setting up and maintaining internal standards.
� Reviewing departmental performance with internal stakeholders to ensure appropriate levels of support to the business
� Managing the Legal Budget EMEA

Person Specification:
Essential skills
You will have:
� A law degree
� Demonstrable experience working as a commercial lawyer
� Demonstrable experience negotiating complex 1st and 3rd party agreements, liaising with client and supplier legal teams
� Demonstrable experience dealing with Intellectual Property Issues in a technology business
� Demonstrable experience managing Trademarks issues
� Experience working as an in-house lawyer in a technology hardware / software business

Behaviours:
� Proactivity - Develops practical solutions, takes leadership, has a 'can do' rather than 'won't do' approach
� Teamwork - Connected to the business, communicates openly, shares information and knowledge, networks internally and externally, persuades rather than pushes, involves colleagues, respects colleagues.
� Responsive - Always reacts quickly and with a sense of urgency to requests, issues, emails or other events in a timely and flexible fashion

Desirable:
� Completion of Articles
� Demonstrable experience of managing Export Control issues
� Experience using relational databases

Company Information:

Founded in late 1996, nCipher developed the world's first security module specifically designed to protect private personal information as it was transmitted over the internet. The familiar 'padlock' icon in the corner of a web browser window was, for most people, their first exposure to digital encryption and it has rapidly become a vital enabling technology in the growth of e-commerce. Today encryption is being applied ever more widely to protect sensitive data throughout enterprises, both at rest within databases or storage systems, while being processed within software applications, and in transit.
More than ten years on, nCipher continues to meet the challenges of digital data protection.

Corporate Milestones:
1996: nCipher founded in Cambridge, UK, by brothers Alex & Dr. Nicko van Someren with seed venture capital provided by Celtic House Investment Partners
1997: nCipher delivers the industry's first secure cryptographic accelerator, nFast® and opens US headquarters in Boston, Mass.
1998: nCipher develops nForce� Secure SSL Accelerator, which incorporates secure key storage and management capabilities. nFast named hot product by Data Communications.
1999: nCipher launches the nShield� hardware security module (HSM), the first high-performance HSM to receive FIPS 140-1 level 3 validation . nForce awarded editor's choice by Network Computing.
2000: nCipher completes IPO and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:NCH)
� nCipher named as 'company to watch' by the Wall Street Journal
� nCipher unveils KeySafe�, a key management console for enterprise-wide key management . nForce awarded editor's choice by Network Computing for second year running
2001: nCipher announces the CodeSafe� secure application toolkit featuring nCipher's unique SEE technology. nShield awarded top 5-star rating by SC Magazine.
2002: nCipher launches payShield, an HSM designed specifically for the emerging payment processing market
2003: nCipher admitted to FTSE4Good index, FTSE's socially responsible investment index and becomes Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
2004: nCipher wins Microsoft's 'Security Solution of the Year' award and joins Trusted Computing Group
2005: nCipher joins Jericho Forum, launches keyAuthority enterprise key management solution and acquires majority stake in Abridean (US) Inc. to enter identity management market

2006: nCipher celebrates its 10th Anniversary and launches miniHSM the world's first embedded hardware security module
2007: Major New York financial institution selects nCipher keyAuthority for enterprise-wide cryptographic key management. nCipher hardware security modules enter Common Criteria Evaluation. nCipher acquires assets of NeoScale Systems giving access to the storage market

Products and Markets

nCipher helps some of the world's most security-conscious organisations – from industry-leading corporations to government agencies - protect their business by securing critical points of risk throughout their enterprise. From speeding and protecting SSL operations to safeguarding cryptographic keys, nCipher's award-winning products protect cryptographic functions and eliminate the performance and administrative barriers commonly associated with cryptography.

It's an approach that has brought nCipher's products into some of the most secure infrastructures in the world – from the U.S. Department of Defense to Microsoft to Deutsche Bank.

nCipher is listed on the London Stock Exchange as a TechMARK 100 company (LSE:NCH). With offices in Cambridge, UK; Boston, and Tokyo, nCipher serves customers and partners around the world.

See www.ncipher.com for further information

What is it like to work at nCipher?
Are you the person we're looking for?

nCipher employ smart people who are genuinely interested in and committed to their work.

The dress code and working environment are relaxed, although they can also guarantee some exciting moments! They work as a team but are not cliquey. They have regular curry evenings, a summer barbeque and Christmas lunch all paid for by the company.

nCipher are committed to the development of their staff and their skills, whether it's a visit to a specialist security conference, training in a new development area and, in some cases, sponsorship of academic study.

Benefits Package

nCipher offer a generous package which includes a non-contributory pension scheme (6%), private healthcare, discretionary sick pay, 25 days annual paid holiday plus national public holidays and life assurance equal to two times annual salary.
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