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Head of Legal, Family Office

Head of Legal, Family Office

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Full Time

01-02-2026

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Job Specifications

Head of Legal, Family Office & Commercial

The Position

Our client is a newly formed family office which is looking to appoint its first lawyer. You will be part of a small and trusted team, brought together to protect assets, structure investments, handle succession planning, navigate complex tax issues, make charitable contributions and anything else which may be required. You will also ensure risk is managed as well as compliance with any governance requirements.

In addition, you will also be Head of Legal, Commercial for the main business for approximately half the time. This part of the role will involve leading on corporate and compliance matters for the main business, ensuring a robust compliance function and managing risk. You will advise on investment decisions and support on company secretarial, governance and data privacy matters.

About You

The role will be broad and will suit an individual who is highly organised, who can look at what needs to be done and make decisions accordingly.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be part of a newly formed organisation, bringing protection to assets which have been built up over a long period of time whilst also taking the lead commercial legal role for a well established business.

Whilst you will certainly be able to utilise outside counsel for niche and specialist matters, it’s most likely a corporate, private client or commercial background would be best suited to the position, although this is definitely flexible, depending on other relevant experience.

The role will be London based, 4 days a week in the office with occasional travel to the other parts of the UK.

About the Company

Welcome. We are Graff Search, niche recruitment specialists for the in-house legal, compliance and data privacy market. We have responded to the growth and complexity of the in-house legal & compliance market and a need for recruitment providers to be more focussed, providing a particular service in these markets, including Legal Operations and ESG. We work with lawyers, legal professionals, compliance, data privacy and ESG professionals at all levels on a retained search, advertised and contingent basis. We recruit paral... Know more