Senior Legal Counsel recruitment
Global financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance is seeking a qualified lawyer to work in their Dublin office. 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. This organization has significant growth plans and the need to support these plans from a legal perspective (to establish new businesses, advise on regulatory and transactional matters), and now that a critical mass has been passed, a lawyer is needed to provide Dublin-based support.
Responsibilities:
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.
To be considered for this role you must be a duly qualified lawyer admitted to practice law in Ireland, other common-law or European jurisdictions. Have 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.