Legal Counsel – Commercial & Technology Transactions
Canonical·Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA; Office Based - London, UK·Posted 23 October 2026
About the role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally-distributed collaboration, with 1500+ colleagues in 90+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are privately held with the intention to list on a public exchange. We are expanding our in-house legal team, creating opportunities for exceptional lawyers as Legal Counsel at various levels. Successful candidates will be rigorous and effective practitioners with a track record of academic achievement and social engagement. At Canonical they will have the opportunity to work on a variety of transactional matters in the technology and enterprise software realm, as well as the…
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