Senior Legal Counsel at Trainline

Andrea Rinaldi

Senior Legal Counsel at Trainline. 

Multilingual Commercial Solicitor advising internal stakeholders across all business areas, with particular interest in matters relating to Commercial Contracts, Digital & IT, Data Privacy, Marketing & Advertising, Supply Chain and Employment.

Senior Legal Counsel

Legal Tech Advisor

•	First and Sole Global Legal Counsel in a fast-growing scale-up with over 140 employees and worldwide operations (LATAM, Africa, MENA, SEA, Eastern Europe), handling all legal matters with a focus on commercial, corporate and operational issues. 
•	Creating and implementing the first legal road map, identifying legal priorities, setting up processes (e.g. contract review & set/up ticketing system, document management system; e-signature) and a library of templates, policies and guidelines to create efficiencies, reduce risks and add value to the business. 
•	Preparing and negotiating all business contracts, particularly data/product licenses, local partner contracts and general commercial agreements.
•	Providing ad-hoc legal advice on all legal matters, particularly, IT & digital, privacy, operations (e.g. entering in new markets), marketing & advertisement, employment and corporate.
•	Direct report to the founder and CEO. 
•	Creating and providing company-wide training on numerous topics including data protection, general commercial contracts, marketing & advertisement, employment and contractors’ engagement.

Sole Global Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel responsibilities (for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) include: 
•Handling the full range of commercial matters and projects with focus on IT & Digital, E-commerce, Marketing & Advertising, Data Protection & Privacy, Supply Chain, Labour & Employee Relations, Intellectual Property and to a lesser extent, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Competition Law and Food Law & Nutrition.
•Supporting all matters relating to Business Operations, Public Health and Franchising initiatives.
•Negotiating and preparing commercial documents involving IT solutions, digital marketing, PR, supply chain or employment related agreements, and supporting the business throughout the contractual process.
•Working with legal and business colleagues to manage (and where appropriate lead) commercial transactions, identifying risks and providing solutions-driven, commercial advice;
•Being the go-to person for numerous marketing campaigns across all channels (e.g. TV, radio, social media) and reviewing all marketing materials and documentation such as sponsorship and partnership agreements, licensing, image rights, talents/influencers contracts, scripts and promotions to ensure regulatory compliance.
•Being the go-to person for all IT and outsourcing contracts ranging from SaaS to software licensing agreements and connectivity contracts.
•Leading/participating in cross-functional teams on projects involving strategic business initiatives, risk management strategies or compliance programs (e.g. GDPR, Criminal Finances Act, IR35).
•Providing day-to-day advice and counsel on commercial issues and liaising with specialist external counsels whilst ensuring that budgets are respected.
•Developing training programs and policies and delivering trainings to staff covering different areas including marketing rules (CAP/BCAP Codes), GDPR and other data privacy laws, Covid-19/ returning to office and contractors on-boarding processes (e.g. IR35).

Legal Counsel

Junior Legal Counsel

Trainee Solicitor

Trainee Solicitor (Secondee)

Commercial Paralegal

•	Assisting the Partner leading the Construction and Engineering team in London in advising clients in the drafting and negotiation of project documentation including building and engineering contracts, consultant appointments, agreements for lease, collateral warranties, and all ancillary documents.
•	Setting up appointments and collateral warranties from model documents, issuing to consultants, negotiating and drafting minor points of contention with various consultants and engrossing documents once agreed.
•	Drafting various documents such as parent company guarantees, novation agreements, letters of authority and client care letters.
•	Proof reading all documents before forwarding to various parties, including contract amendments, agreements for lease, facility agreements and other funding documents.
•	Liaising on a daily basis with consultants, contractors, clients and other firms on all aspects of construction projects.
•	Managing and updating projects’ status schedules keeping track of the documentation circulated to parties from engrossment to completion, together with the stage of negotiation of a specific contract. 
•	Managing the process to ensure necessary documents are signed and initialled by all relevant parties.
•	Managing CP checklist during funding.
•	Obtaining evidence that external parties hold relevant insurance, maintaining records and comparing this to contractual insurance clause to verify appropriate wording and cover.
•	Creating and managing cost schedules for billing as well as matter bibles. 
•	Creating and managing extranets for use by external third parties such as clients or other law firms.

Paralegal (Construction & Engineering- Real Estate)

General Responsibilities
•	Assisted a team of lawyers and particularly the customer legal counsel for Europe in advising on various legal issues such as commercial, corporate, IP and competition across the Western Europe Business Unit.  
•	Carried out meetings with internal business and finance teams to review and advise on contractual documents with international customers including retailers, hotels and fast food chains.   
•	Reviewed, drafted and amended contractual documents with international customers such as international marketing services agreements, external professional services contracts, promotional contracts, extension letters, memorandum of understanding.
•	Carried out due diligence on customers such as retailers creating new buying groups and alliances (e.g. corporate governance, shareholdings and subsidiaries’ structure, articles of association).

IP Specific Responsibilities:
•	Drafted cease and disease letters in respect of third party infringements of different Coca-Cola trademarks.
•	Researched on the use of Emojis/Emoticons and social media logos in social media and company advertising/marketing materials. 
•	Provided advice on amendments to IP clauses in external professional services contracts. 

Corporate Specific Responsibilities:
•	Drafted board minutes to approve an inter-company loan and attended the board meeting.
•	Conducted company filings and searches at Companies House and equivalent company registries in Europe. 
•	Researched national and European merger control regulations in numerous EU countries, specifically focusing on turnover thresholds that may require notification to competition authorities.

Litigation Specific Responsibilities:
•	Researched on legal professional privilege for in-house and private practice lawyers in the EU.
•	Assisted in handling and advising contractual claims.

Legal Intern

•	Researched key contractual issues (e.g. “option clause”, “entire agreement clause”) in ongoing contentious “dry” and “wet” shipping cases.
•	Drafted and reviewed advice to clients and letters to counterparts.
•	Carried out translation work of correspondence and documents issued by the national authorities.
•	Conducted research on potential future clients (e.g. size, turnover, geographic business area).
•	Proofread letters to the counterpart.
•	Participated to meetings with clients and negotiations with the counterpart.

Work Experience

•Participated in conference calls with clients. 
•Carried out detailed Internet research on clients as background information for potential deals. 
•Reviewed the presence, accuracy and consistency of definitions in contracts.
•Introduced to the professional activities of an international law firm, acquired insights on how the firm is organised and on the different activities defining each department.

Vacation Scheme

• Responsible for the digitalisation of data, and comparison between data acquired from the previous census (2001) and 2011 pilot census of the Albanian population using ESRI ArcGIS software.
•Responsible for preparing and managing documents and material essential for the census fieldwork.
•Participated in internal meetings and discussions regarding the problems involved in the process of conducting the census.
•Supported the building of the geographic database for the census.