Litigation & Regulatory Investigations Counsel

**Overview of Citi** Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial productsand services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edgeideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity. **Role Overview** That support and advice relates to a an extremely broad range of contentious issues, disputes and internal investigations. The matters advised upon are of varying significance and complexity and include civil/commercial litigation as well as contentious financialregulatory issues and ethics / conduct investigations. The workload of the team is extremely varied and, at any given moment, can relate to any business area or product and/or to any one or more of the 55 countries in which Citi does business in the EMEA region. **Responsibilities** The work involved and related responsibilities will typically include the following: - Leading internal investigations and inquiries into regulatory and/or ethical/conduct issues in connection with EMEA businesses. Producing verbal and/or written reports in relation to such investigations for Legal Seniors, Citi's Ethics Office and/or Regulators,as appropriate. - Working with Citi's Security and Investigative Services ("CSIS") team in relation to fraud-related and other investigations. - Working with local Citi internal product and country lawyers throughout the region. - Advising on disputes involving investment and commercial banking transactions, equities and fixed income sales and trading; transaction services (cash management, trade finance and securities & funds services); consumer banking; and/or private banking /wealth management. - Managing the conduct of regulatory and legal proceedings, criminal and civil, to include the selection and instruction of local external counsel and the ongoing management of related legal costs. - Advising upon the nature and effect of Court Orders received in connection with customers and clients (e.g. freezing orders; third party debt orders; insolvency-related court procedure etc). - Providing US/APac/LatAm Citi Legal colleagues with local assistance throughout EMEA in connection with cross-border litigation and/or with requests for information and documents received from regulatory authorities in other regions. - Working with Citi's Corporate Affairs team in relation to any related media coverage. - Advising on recoveries issues, including those arising out of domestic and cross-border insolvencies. - Assisting in maintaining a litigation reporting database and in the preparation of bespoke, periodic internal reports for submission to senior executive management; various internal governance bodies; and the boards of directors of Citigroup, Inc. and anumber of its subsidiaries. **Development Value** **Qualifications**: - Relevant experience should have been obtained either in private practice with a major law firm or in-house with another significant financial institution. - Witness interview and report drafting skills are a pre-requisite. - Banking or financial industry experience - Comprehensive knowledge of laws and practices - Experience of managing foreign lawyers, where cases span a number of jurisdictions would be an advantage. - Proven analytical and organizational skills - Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication - Bar licence in good standing to practice law in a relevant jurisdiction (UK and/or US preferred). - Fluency in spoken and written English is essential. - Familiarity with other European languages an advantage, but not a pre-requisite. - Basic IT / computer skills a requirement (Word, Outlook etc). **Education**: - Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience - Master's degree preferred - **Resourcefulness and commercial awareness** - ability to respond to business issues with workable solutions often under critical time pressure. - **Communication skills** - ability to relay precise information orally and in writing - both to internal management and external parties - in a concise manner. - **Ability to work independently**: - to include preparedness to take the lead in making appropriate recommendations to senior and middle management. - **Client Focus** - ability to deliver high levels of client service. - **Team approach** - ability to promote collaboration within own peer group and throughout the organisation. **Intellectual strength and sound judgment**: - ability to distil information rapid