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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailContentious Financial Regulation Lawyer 3 years PQE
Location: London
Brief
We are seeking to recruit a contentious regulatory financial services lawyer into the London office of our Regulation Insurance and Funds Group (RIF). The ideal candidate would be a lawyer who is at 3 years PQE at another law firm or the regulator.
Our Current Financial Regulation Team
Our current team of financial services regulatory lawyers 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 which is one of the Teams in RIF. Pinsent Masons has a strong sector focus with Financial Services being one of our 5 global sectors. The Financial Regulatory Team is seen as fundamental to our efforts to continue to grow and develop our sector offering and has been identified as an area for investment by the firm.
RIF 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 but the new Group has brought closer working relationships and cross selling opportunities.
Our team includes experienced partners associates and trainees with in-depthexperience of all aspects of financial services regulation including being ex regulators and ex ombudspeople and barristers. 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.
Key clients include:
What our clients say:
The team is very focussed on providing the best advice that balances regulatory knowledge with commercial acumen. The team turns items around very quickly and is very much in tune with its clients needs.
Basic requirements
The ideal candidate will become a major integral part of the Team and will have experience of advising on most of the following:
Additional attributes
As well as having the experience mentioned above the candidate should be:
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm with over 3800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe Asia Pacific Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services energy infrastructure real estate and advanced manufacturing and technology 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.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity religion age physical or mental disability/long term condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions operates a hub of freelance lawyers called Vario and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy Brook Graham.
Put simply we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients enabled by our people process and technology.
Awards
Were being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business the FTs most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years) winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as aTop Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as aDisability Confident Employerby theDepartment for Work & Pensionsand we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - an inclusive employer we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Should you require further details please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.
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