Financial Regulation Associate Solicitor

Financial Regulatory Solicitor - City of London - In House


Tier 1, global, law firm has retained us to recruit a talented and ambitious Compliance & Risk Associate Solicitor due to strategic expansion.

The Firm
This is a multinational, Global 100, law firm, with nearly 3500 employees operating out of 26 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Their global reach ensures that they are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant credentials in the technology, financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

The Team
The Financial Regulatory Team provides regulatory advice to financial institutions and other businesses including banks, investment managers, building societies, life and non-life insurance companies, trading platforms, stockbrokers, corporate financiers, intermediaries (including networks), payment services firms, small investment banks, custodians, and pension houses.

The Financial Regulatory Team is seen as fundamental to the firm's our efforts to continue to grow and develop their sector offering and has been identified as an area for investment by the firm. The team was formed in November 2016 and brings together specialist practitioners in insurance, wealth and investment management, funds and banking products, as well as financial regulation.

The Financial Regulation Team already worked closely with these specialist areas. The team includes experienced partners, associates and trainees with in-depth experience of all aspects of financial services regulation. The team intends to continue to grow organically but as their business expands, they are seeking additional resource that would bring a fresh energy into
the team. There are also opportunities to undertake secondments to some of our larger clients.

The Role
The firm is seeking to recruit a non-contentious financial services lawyer into their London office.

You will have around 4 years+ PQE at another law firm or the regulator, however they would also be interested in candidates with in-house experience.

You will become a major integral part of the Team and will have experience of advising on most of the following:

Whether clients are carrying on regulated activities in the UK or internationally;

How clients can become authorised and deal with changes to their regulatory position;

How clients can communicate financial promotions and distribute products and
services;

Dealing with regulatory change, for example MiFID II and PSD 2, SMCR and the impact
of Brexit;

Interpretation of the FCA and PRA's rules (including the various Conduct of Business
rulebooks, Supervision,Systems and Controls, Capital requirements and Client Money
and Custody rules);

The acquisition or disposal of FCA/PRA regulated firms and the scope of the controllers
regime;

Drafting terms of business for financial services products and services;

Supporting contentious regulatory colleagues in relation to regulatory investigations;

The scope of the market abuse and insider dealing regime.


Benefits

- Tier 1 firm
- Highly competitive salary structure
- Attractive benefits package
- First class training and career development programme

To apply for this position, please contact Richard Coward at BCL Legal