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About the Role

This role involves working with leading financial institutions, providing legal support on regulatory inquiries, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure effective legal risk management and adherence to standards.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate investment management agreements and related fund documentation across multiple jurisdictions, with a focus on private funds in the UK and Middle East region.
• Provide legal support on regulatory inquiries affecting private fund structures and deliver clear, practical guidance to internal teams.
• Support lawyers responsible for private fund products, ensuring consistent and compliant advice across fund structures, strategies, and distribution channels.
• Manage and instruct external counsel, including reviewing and summarising legal and regulatory advice relating to private equity, private credit, and other alternative investment strategies for internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to contribute to effective legal risk management, fund governance, and adherence to internal policies and regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Law degree with compliance with all relevant licensing and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in a law firm or in-house role within financial services, ideally with exposure to private equity, private credit, real assets, or other alternative investment funds.
• Strong experience drafting and reviewing private fund documentation and commercial agreements, including preparing clear summaries and analyses for internal audiences.
• Excellent organisational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced private funds environment.
• Detail-oriented, adaptable, and proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Skills

• Private fund documentation
• Commercial agreements
• Legal risk management
• Fund governance
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Location

• Remote
• Onsite
• Hybrid

Work Type

• Remote
• Onsite
• Hybrid
• Consultant
• Employee

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Education Level

• Law degree

Salary/Compensations

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Pension
• Professional development resources
• Learning and development programs

About the Company

• Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent, enabling legal departments to drive efficiency and growth with best-in-breed alternative legal services.
• Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.
• Axiom's legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
• Axiom Global Limited is a company registered in England and Wales.

Equal Opportunity

• Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
• Axiom provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process.