Job Description
SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL – FINANCIAL SERVICES – COMMERCIAL AND REGULATORY
CENTRAL LONDON
HYBRID WORKING (3 DAYS IN OFFICE, 2 FROM HOME)
PERMANENT ROLE
Role Overview:
Morgan Philips Specialist Recruitment is presently representing a large US headquartered financial services company in their search for a Senior Legal Counsel to join their legal team in London.
Reporting to the Head of Legal – EMEA, the Senior Legal Counsel will be a member of the General Counsel's Office, with responsibility for providing legal and regulatory advice and guidance to company’s operations in EMEA.
The successful candidate will be an experienced lawyer with a keen interest in EU and UK financial services regulatory work whose core responsibility will be the provision of advice with a view to crafting and implementing measures to align with legal or regulatory requirements while mitigating risks.
Key Accountabilities:
1. Understand complex technical issues and provide accurate and commercial advice to the business on a wide range of topics under English and European Union law reliably and within the required timeframes
2. Support the management of legal issues across regulated and unregulated businesses i...