Senior Legal Counsel

Prudentials purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured for our people customers and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business and we support our peoples career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect Grow and Succeed.

We are seeking an experienced and self-driven Senior Legal Counsel to support high-net-worth (HNW) insurance business across multiple jurisdictions. The role focuses on offshore insurance policies (including Bermuda issued policies) and cross border distribution ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will work independently advising on complex insurance and wealth solutions for HNW and UHNW clients with a unique opportunity to help build and shape an integrated wealth platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide legal advice on HNW insurance products including life wealth planning and bespoke insurance solutions.
• Advise on offshore insurance structures (including structures held under trust arrangements) with particular focus on Bermudaissued policies and other offshore jurisdictions.
• Review draft and negotiate insurance policies endorsements reinsurance agreements and distribution agreements.
• Advise on crossborder insurance distribution rules licensing and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Partner with operations compliance risk and business stakeholders on regulatory interpretation governance and regulatory change.
• Manage and instruct external counsel in offshore and onshore jurisdictions.
• Handle regulatory inquiries audits or legal issues arising from HNW insurance.
• Provide pragmatic commercially focused legal advice to senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to internal policies legal guidance and training on offshore insurance reinsurance and crossborder distribution matters.

Job Requirements:

• Qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (e.g. Hong Kong UK Singapore or equivalent).
• 812 years postqualification experience in insurance and/or wealthrelated legal work.
• Strong experience advising on HNW insurance and wealth structuring.
• Demonstrated familiarity with premium financing structures in an HNW/UHNW context.
• Proven knowledge of offshore insurance regimes (experience with Bermuda is an advantage).
• Solid understanding of crossborder insurance distribution and related regulatory frameworks.
• Experience gained inhouse at an insurer reinsurer financial institution or leading insurance/private wealth law firm preferred.
• Ability to work independently and manage complex highvalue matters.
• Strong communication drafting negotiation and stakeholdermanagement skills.
• Commercial solutionoriented mindset.
• Fluency in English and proficiency in written and spoken Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin) is highly preferred to effectively communicate with stakeholders across Hong Kong and regional markets.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex race age ethnic origin educational social and cultural background marital status pregnancy and maternity religion or belief disability or part-time / fixed-term work or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.