Associate Legal Counsel, Investments

WELLCOME - Associate Legal Counsel (Investments)

In House - Corporate / Investments Lawyer - 2+ pqe - London

Wellcome exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. It is a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent, and supports scientists and researchers, takes on big problems, fuels imaginations and sparks debate.

Wellcome has a £23.2 billion investment portfolio (as at 30 September 2017) which funds the charitable work it does and is managed by Wellcome’s experienced Investments team. A rare opportunity has now arisen in the legal team supporting Wellcome’s investment activity, at Associate Legal Counsel level.

Responsibilities:

• Act as internal adviser for the Investments team, to address commercial, strategic and legal issues including risk, governance and compliance;
• Provide high quality, strategic and innovative legal support, adapting existing skills for use in new areas where needed;
• Support commercial evaluation of transactions, review and negotiate legal documents and assist with project management;
• Collaborate with internal teams including tax, finance, operations and risk;
• Co-ordinate with external advisers including government and regulatory groups;
• Work constructively and build trusted relationships within the Investments team and a close-knit Legal team; and
• Be open to new challenges and willing to continuously develop, personally and professionally.

Requirements:

• UK qualified solicitor;
• At least 2 years corporate or investment management pqe including ideally some in-house experience;
• Experience of drafting and negotiating agreements for a range of commercial and investment transactions;
• Experience of structuring and negotiating joint venture and partnership agreements and/or ISDA documents and investment management agreements (IMAs) would be desirable;
• Experience of applying legal expertise to a range of business and legal problems; and
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

For more information please contact our exclusively retained consultant Sameer Chauhan at Marsden Group. Any third party or direct applications made to Wellcome will be forwarded to Sameer for consideration.