Masters Agreement Negotiator

Fieldfisher is a leading legal services provider, committed to delivering efficient, scalable, and innovative solutions to our clients. We specialize in servicing clients with high-volume legal needs and focus on engagements involving eDisclosure, Contract Management and Legal Technology. We are looking to grow our footprint in Belfast by building a dedicated team to service our blue-chip client base.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Using either counterparty paper or our clients' agreement templates, the senior negotiator will be required to draft, negotiate, obtain internal approvals and finally execute new arrangements with counterparties.
- : Build and maintain strong relationships with the client's legal, business, credit, risk and operations teams, to ensure that all negotiations are agreed and approved by the relevant people.
- Ensuring that each negotiation is tracked and updated on our client portal so that the management information is up to date and reconciles against the client's internal systems.
- Using your knowledge and experience, help to train and upskill junior members of the team, and act as a mentor for them as they embark on a negotiation career.

**Required Qualifications & Experience**:

- A minimum of 4 years of experience in negotiating financial legal agreements, with some exposure to ISDA, CSA, GMRA, and GMSLA.
- Proven expertise in negotiating with counterparties in financial services, such as investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds.
- Knowledge of derivatives, securities lending, and repo markets.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills,
- A law degree or equivalent legal qualification is preferred.

**Preferred Skills**:

- Familiarity with legal tech and innovative solutions for streamlining the negotiation process.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

**What We Offer**:

- ** Inclusive & Supportive Environment**: We’re a firm with real entrepreneurial drive and we don’t believe in squashing people’s individuality. Our hybrid working model and open plan workspaces encourage a sense of camaraderie.
- ** Comprehensive and Flexible Benefits Package**: Our offering includes private medical insurance, health cash plan, dental insurance, life assurance, critical illness insurance, matched pension contributions up to 7%, holiday trading, plus many more. Visit**:Reward & Benefits ¦ Fieldfisher**for further information.
- ** Training and Development**:We’ll give you bespoke support to develop your career with our people development and IT training teams.
- ** Social & Community Engagement**: Participate in clubs, networks, inclusive events, and charity initiatives.

**Inclusion at Fieldfisher**:
At Fieldfisher, led by the social model of disability, we are working towards removing accessibility barriers and maximising disability and neurodiversity inclusion in our recruitment processes.

Should you have any accessibility requirements, please contact a member of Fieldfisher's recruitment team, who will work with you to implement suitable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All conversations are treated in the strictest of confidence, and we would appreciate your feedback to ensure we can provide an accessible and enjoyable recruitment process.

**Recruitment process**:

- 20-30-minute introductory call with one of our experienced recruiters.

Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market-leading practices in many of the world's most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, financial services, energy & natural resources, and life sciences.

We are a law firm built around people with all their diversity and we strike a healthy balance between legal excellence and a down-to-earth practical approach to our clients' needs. We believe **The Future is Human**, so we choose a collaborative approach with an intense focus on the end-user and consider carefully how to shape our services to add the most value to our clients.