Legal Counsel

1 week ago

Britain Roman province, United Kingdom Arbuthnot Yon Full time

Our client is one of the world's largest independent investment management firms that serves an institutional client base in over 50 countries.

We are currently seeking to hire a high calibre Lawyer to join our client's Funds Legal team in London for a period of 12 months (a maternity cover), to start late May/early June onwards.

This individual will play an important role providing legal support and regulatory advice to their business activities in EMEA, in particular the management and administration of EU funds and the distribution of non-EU and EU funds in EMEA.

This is an EMEA focused role yet also global as you will be expected to collaborate with colleagues based in APAC and the US, and across functions.

What will the role involve?
Providing or overseeing legal support for EU funds and associated regulated entities, including:
on regulatory, fiduciary, risk and other issues related to the management and administration of funds;
in relation to selling and marketing activities, including funds distribution;
with regulators;
project teams, business colleagues and managing external counsel. What skill sets are we looking for?
years+ PQE, gained at a city law firm and in-house;
asset management expertise, experience of Luxembourg funds is important, as well as Irish UCITS funds;
in advising on fund regulatory issues e.g. UCITS, AIFMD, SFDR and other sustainability regulations;
in French would be a positive but is not a requirement. What softer skill sets are we looking for?
business judgement, and strong counselling skills;
pragmatic and risk aware approach to practising law;
ability to prioritise and manage different components of legal services, e.g. outside counsel, project work, paralegals etc.;
written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively distil and communicate complex issues in a dynamic environment. Our client provides a collegiate, stable, supportive and entrepreneurial environment in which to work, and a hybrid working policy. This is an excellent interim role offering a long-term contract coupled with an excellent day rate.

For more information please contact:

Matt Bloxham Due to a high volume of applications, we will only respond to those we deem suitable for the role.

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