Senior Legal Counsel

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our General Counsel team as a Senior Legal Counsel in Birmingham.

Within this roleno two days are the same as youll be involved in a wide range of stimulating work including:

• Advising on complex regulatory and legal issues including SRA regulation data protection and anti-money laundering sanctions and compliance obligations.
• Supporting and mentoring colleagues on conflicts of interest and confidentiality matters.
• Involvement in firm-wide projects and collaborating with business support teams to ensure compliance is embedded in everything we do.
• Working with overseas offices to navigate cross-border regulations and maintain our global licences.
• Designing and delivering training both in-person and online to keep our teams ahead of regulatory expectations.
• Advising on commercial tenders client engagement terms and responding to client complaints.
• Supporting our internal audit function and helping shape our data protection programme.
• Representing the firm at events and staying at the forefront of regulatory developments.

About the team:

Join a Team Where Youll Thrive

Are you ready to take your compliance expertise to the next level in a collaborative forward-thinking environment At Gowling WLG we believe our people are the cornerstone of our success. We foster a culture thats supportive ambitious and innovativewhere teamwork and respect empower everyone to flourish.

Why Youll Love Working With Us

• Supportive & Friendly Team: Our General Counsel Team is known for its approachable inclusive atmosphere where mentoring and personal development are at the heart of what we do.
• Global Impact: As part of an international law firm with a presence across Canada the UK Europe the Middle East and Asia youll collaborate with colleagues and clients worldwide tackling challenges that span jurisdictions and sectors.

About you:

• A qualified lawyer with significant experience in a regulatory role (in-house private practice or regulatory authority).
• Strong communication skills and confidence in advising senior lawyers.
• A broad understanding of business issues and the drive to find practical compliant solutions.
• Excellent IT skills and a commercial mindset.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 25 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at

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