Legal Counsel (Regulatory)
Core
Provide strategic legal advice, manage legal risk, and support regulatory compliance and governance within the asset management business.
Role type
Senior in-house asset management regulatory lawyer
Builds
Strategic legal advice, regulatory compliance frameworks, litigation support, and new product launches (fund launches, IMAs, IAAs)
Domain
Financial Services / Asset Management / Regulatory Law
Required skills
Regulatory compliance, litigation management, contract negotiation, stakeholder relationship building, strategic legal advice, fund structuring knowledge, multi-jurisdictional legal advice, regulatory framework understanding (MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR), legal drafting, analytical reasoning
Preferred skills
Fund structuring and IMA negotiation, cross-jurisdictional fund documentation (UK, Luxembourg, Ireland), managing external counsel
Technologies
Legal research tools, contract management systems
Responsibilities
Manage legal risk and support regulatory compliance, advise on contentious and regulatory matters, support litigation, advise on strategic and regulatory change projects, support new product launches
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
