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About the Role

Provide strategic legal support across UK and Ireland businesses, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and commercial teams to enable business growth while managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the negotiation, drafting, and management of complex client, supplier, and commercial agreements across the UK and Ireland.
• Provide pragmatic, solutions-focused legal advice to business leaders, sales teams, and key stakeholders to support commercial objectives and growth initiatives.
• Advise on legal and regulatory matters relating to fund administration, corporate services, depositary, AIFM, fiduciary, and outsourcing arrangements.
• Support corporate transactions, restructurings, governance matters, regulatory engagements, investigations, and dispute resolution activities.
• Drive legal best practices, contracting efficiencies, risk management initiatives, and the development of junior legal team members.

Requirements

• Admitted to practice law in England & Wales or Ireland.
• Significant post-qualification experience (7+ years PQE) in corporate and commercial law.
• Experience in both private practice and in-house legal environments.
• Strong understanding of regulated financial services and the legal and regulatory frameworks governing UK and Ireland operations.
• Experience within fund administration, private capital, corporate services, or fiduciary services, including knowledge of AIFM, depositary, fund administration, and outsourcing frameworks.
• Successfully managed, coached, and developed junior lawyers while fostering high legal standards and collaborative ways of working.

Skills

• Legal advice
• Contract negotiation
• Drafting agreements
• Risk management
• Financial services regulation
• Fund administration
• Corporate law
• Commercial law
• Team development

Location

• UK
• Ireland

Work Type

• Permanent
• Flexible working

Experience Level

• 7+ years PQE

Education Level

• Admitted to practice law in England & Wales or Ireland

Salary/Compensations

• Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile

Benefits

• Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
• Private health and dental cover
• Life assurance
• Discounted gym membership
• Eye test
• Corporate GP
• 25 days paid leave plus all UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Shared parental leave
• Adoption leave
• Support and development programs

About the Company

• A leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide.
• Employs a global workforce of 6,500+ people across 24 jurisdictions.
• Has assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$857 billion.
• Works with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
• Services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology.
• Driven by the Group purpose: to power people and possibilities.
• Committed to sustainability, fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture.
• Invests in employee career growth through learning and development programs.
• Supports employee balance and flexibility through a hybrid working approach.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.