Group Legal Counsel
Join Quintessential Brands as Legal Counsel. Advise on corporate, commercial and IP matters across global spirits brands, balancing legal rigour with commercial pragmatism in an FMCG business.
At Quintessential Brands Group, we are proud to continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, the visionary who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, our award-winning portfolio spans iconic names like Greenall’s, Opihr, Thomas Dakin, The Dubliner, and Chamère, our exciting new venture in the world of RTD cocktails.
A Taste of The Job
As our Group Legal Counsel, you’ll play a key role in supporting the legal integrity and commercial success of Quintessential Brands across the UK and international markets. By providing trusted, pragmatic legal advice across a broad range of corporate, commercial, IP, and compliance matters, you will help to safeguard our reputation, minimise risk, and enable confident business decision-making.
This is a hands-on, advisory role operating at pace within a dynamic, international FMCG environment. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, balancing legal precision with commercial pragmatism as you support growth, innovation, and brand expansion.
Your Impact Will Include
Commercial Legal Support – Advise the business on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters across multiple jurisdictions, including IP, compliance, contracts, and disputes.
Risk & Governance – Identify, assess, and mitigate legal risk, ensuring the business operates within legal and regulatory frameworks.
Contracts & Documentation – Draft, review, negotiate, and manage contracts, agreements, and legal documents to protect the company’s interests.
Compliance & Labelling – Support compliance and labelling requirements relevant to the alcohol industry.
Policy Development – Develop and maintain company policies and positions on legal matters.
Stakeholder Advisory – Provide clear, timely legal advice to executives, managers, and functional leaders.
External Engagement – Manage relationships with external legal advisers, IP lawyers, regulators, and public authorities.
Complex Matter Management – Handle matters involving multiple stakeholders, balancing competing interests.
Horizon Scanning – Monitor changes in legislation and external legal developments, advising the business on impact and response.
A Flavour of the Business
At Quintessential Brands Group, we’re a unique blend, a modern, entrepreneurial spirits business built on more than 250 years of distilling heritage. Our award-winning portfolio spans globally recognised brands enjoyed by consumers across multiple markets.
We operate in a fast-moving, agile environment where collaboration and commercial thinking are essential. Joining QB, as we’re known to our friends, means being part of a business where legal insight is valued as a strategic enabler, not a blocker.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You’re a commercially minded lawyer with strong judgement, high integrity, and the confidence to advise at senior levels. You’re comfortable working across jurisdictions, enjoy solving complex problems, and bring a solutions-focused mindset to everything you do.
You will bring:
Law degree and qualification from an international or top-tier law firm.
8+ years PQE in a business or professional services environment.
Experience across corporate transactions and commercial contracts, including distribution, IP, and brand-related agreements.
Strong grounding in general commercial law, including intellectual property rights and licensing.
Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Strong analytical ability with exceptional attention to detail.
Sound judgement and the ability to assess risk in a commercial context.
High professional ethics and integrity.
Confidence working with external advisers and internal business leaders.
Alcohol or FMCG industry exposure is desirable but not essential.
The Garnish – Benefits that come with the role
We know great people deserve strong support. We offer:
Competitive salary
Annual bonus opportunity
Company pension scheme
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Private healthcare
Staff product allowance and discounts
The opportunity to work closely with senior leaders in a growing international business
The Essence of QB
At Quintessential Brands, we proudly continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, our brands are built on craftsmanship, character, and commercial ambition.
As Group Legal Counsel, you’ll play a vital role in protecting that legacy, enabling growth, supporting innovation, and ensuring our business operates with confidence and integrity across global markets.
- Team
- Legal
- Locations
- London HQ
- Employment type
- Full-time
Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.
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