Financial Services Regulatory PSL

THE FIRM

A global law firm.

THE ROLE

A Professional Support Lawyer is sought to join the Financial Services Regulatory team.

The team includes Partners who have previously gained several years' experience working in senior in-house legal roles within the regulator or within financial institutions.

The non-contentious FSR practice specialises in advisory, regulatory change and transactions/commercial projects work.

The team advises banks (traditional and challenger), investment firms (including broker-dealers and trading venues), asset managers, market infrastructure providers and other financial institutions on financial services law and regulation, including all major UK/EU regulatory regimes, including CRR/CRD, MiFID II, SMCR, MAR, EMIR, PSD2 and AIFMD. Areas of special expertise include strategic advice on emerging technology; sustainability; complex outsourcing; and governance and risk management.

The role involves:

1. Knowhow management
   • Identifying, tracking, storing and updating the team on regulatory developments
   • Managing internal knowhow
   • Acting as a sounding board for associates to provide a steer on how to identify relevant sources of rules, guidance and knowhow
   • Assisting in the preparation of various information bundles for lawyers
   • Drafting technical legal updates
   • Coordinating with knowhow teams in other practice areas to contribute to cross-practice knowhow
   • Keeping precedents and knowhow notes up to date
   • Preparing new precedents and keeping precedents up to date
   • Helping to maintain a record of house views
   • Providing support with chargeable work including undertaking research for the fee-earners as needed
2. Business development
   • Assisting in the preparation of regular client briefings, alerts and blogs
   • Assisting the team with trade association work
   • Writing blogs on legal developments and reviewing and editing drafts from the team
   • Assisting the team with preparation for roundtables, conferences, client training and seminars, including identifying regulatory developments and helping to prepare content of slides and speaker notes
   • Coordinating with the business development team on BD initiatives
   • Attending client events
   • Assisting with pitches where technical input is required
   • Input into practice strategy thinking
3. Training
   • Assisting with the preparation and delivery of training to associates and trainees
   • Leading the knowhow section of internal FSR weekly meetings and participating in discussions on developments
   • Delivering external talks, recording webinars and podcasts
   • Supporting fee-earning
   • Undertaking or assisting fee earners with undertaking analysis and delivery of advice to clients.

ABOUT YOU

A lawyer with top academics, 6+ pqe years' experience in financial services regulatory work, with PSL experience preferable, although not essential.

Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.