Senior In-House Legal Cousel recruitment
Job Details: Senior Counsel
Sector: Financial Services (Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Asset Management)
Department: Legal
Specialisation: Legal
Reporting to: TBA
Basic Salary: Competitive
Bonus Structure: Competitive
Benefits: Comprehensive
Location: Dublin
Our Reference: 918989
Summary
Our client, a top-tier global financial services group that has significant growth plans, needs to support these plans from a legal perspective (to establish new businesses, advise on regulatory and transactional matters). This is a varied and challenging Dublin-based opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel.
Description
Our client is a diversified financial services company has $1.2 trillion in assets. The Law Department provides advice to senior management, business units and support services on a range of issues including regulatory matters, transactions and corporate law issues, with lawyers located in various offices globally.
Responsibilities
The primary areas of responsibility for the role are as follows:
- Providing local law advice and counsel to senior leadership on cross-border transactional and regulatory issues
- Reviewing and providing advice on trade-related legal issues and transaction documents for various business units (liaising with external counsel as appropriate)
- Working independently with business units to help develop their businesses, particularly in obtaining requisite approvals from Head Office committees
- Identifying and mitigating transaction risks and providing creative, problem-solving legal input to new product and new initiative development
- Providing legal advice on compliance policies, advising and working with Compliance Department as appropriate
- Advising on licensing regulations in various jurisdictions, in particular on the ability to market, solicit and conduct business in such jurisdictions
- Analysing and interpreting legal issues and complex documents (including term sheets and full legal documentation), for business units
- Oversight and support of corporate secretarial functions (using third parties where appropriate).
- Communicating regularly and co-ordinating with Head Office Law Department, in particular adhering to policies and procedures in retaining and managing external counsel
- Managing external counsel relationships and all related expenses, particularly on transactions (and approving legal invoices)
- Consulting with and advising clients and representing the Bank in dealing with others inside and outside the organization, as appropriate
Requirements
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
- Duly qualified lawyer admitted to practice law in Ireland, other common-law or European jurisdictions
- Excellent transactional experience practicing law with a major law firm or financial services organisation preferred
- Substantial experience representing international financial institutions on cross-border transactions, regulatory issues and dealing with regulators
- Good technical knowledge of markets and relevant laws (banking, securities, insolvency, tax, etc.) with respect to lending, capital markets, structured finance and similar products
- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills
- Flexible, proactive, creative and entrepreneurial approach
- Knowledge of US banking and securities laws helpful
- Ability to manage projects and work with multidisciplinary project teams