Legal Counsel
- Recruiter
- gmk
- Location
- England, London, City of London
- Posted
- 08 Feb 2016
- Closes
- 07 Mar 2016
- Ref
- LT23174
- Contact
- Liam Taaffe
- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House
- Contract
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Banking/Finance, Regulatory/Compliance, Company/Commercial, Information Technology
- Experience Level
- Mid Level
The Role
As Legal Counsel you will provide technical legal and regulatory advice to the enforcement function to assist with ensuring quality cases are presented to the Code Compliance Tribunals. In addition the role will provide clerking support to the Code Compliance Tribunals, as well as provide general commercial legal support to the Executive and support to General Counsel on other legal issues or projects as and when they arise. Ad hoc projects can include researching and disseminating legislative and regulatory developments or participating in new or existing policy initiatives, such as the implementation of Company Code of Practice and/or development of procedures or guidance supporting the Code.
The Candidate
The successful candidate will have (circa 3 - 5 years PQE) a broad range of relevant legal experience, a good understanding of court and tribunal processes, and good commercial exposure. Strong legal drafting and critical analysis skills are essential as is solid regulatory and dispute resolution experience, ideally with commercial law grounding. A strong range of other legal skills including excellent research, influencing and communication skills are important. You will also ideally have had previous experience of public and administrative law.