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About the Role
Partner with senior leaders across the organisation to provide strategic legal and regulatory advice on the firm's most important business initiatives. Reporting to the Head of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, you will play a trusted adviser role across the full spectrum of legal matters impacting the business, from complex lending arrangements and investment management agreements to regulatory change, corporate transactions, governance and commercial contracts.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic legal and regulatory advice across a wide range of financial services, wealth management and corporate matters.
- Support lending and financing activities, including credit, margin lending, mortgage and other bespoke client arrangements.
- Review, negotiate and draft sophisticated commercial agreements, investment management agreements (IMAs), supplier contracts, technology agreements and transaction documentation.
- Advise on regulatory obligations including AFSL requirements, Corporations Act obligations, AML/CTF, privacy and governance matters.
- Partner with executives and business leaders on strategic projects, organisational initiatives and business transformations.
- Support corporate governance activities, board and committee matters, company secretarial requirements and risk management frameworks.
- Provide legal guidance on asset management, investment products, capital markets activities and cross-border business arrangements.
- Manage relationships with external counsel and drive commercially practical outcomes for the business.
Requirements
- 10+ years' post-qualification legal experience gained within a leading law firm, financial institution or a combination of both.
- Deep financial services expertise, with exposure across regulated environments such as wealth management, banking, asset management, investment management, private banking or financial advice.
- Strong knowledge of financial services regulation and a broad understanding of AFSL obligations.
- Experience advising on credit, lending or margin lending matters, with exposure to non-licensed or regulated lending highly regarded.
- Corporate, commercial and litigation experience, with the ability to navigate complex legal issues and provide pragmatic, commercially focused solutions.
- Experience reviewing and negotiating investment management agreements and other sophisticated client and commercial arrangements.
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging directly with executives and senior business leaders.
- A highly autonomous and self-directed approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work independently.
Skills
- Financial services expertise
- Financial services regulation
- AFSL obligations
- Credit
- Lending
- Margin lending
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Litigation
- Investment management agreements
- Stakeholder management
- Autonomous approach
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- In-house
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years' post-qualification legal experience
Benefits
- Ongoing development managed and tailored to role and future career path.
About the Company
- LGT Wealth Management was formed around a clear and uncompromising vision – to bring global best practice in building institutional quality investment portfolios to Australian clients.
- In 2022 we became a part of the LGT Group, who shared our entrepreneurial spirit, long-term approach and private-ownership model. Today, with the global expertise, stability, and capability of LGT behind us, we can work without being reliant on markets or margins, with a singular focus on giving our clients the advice and deep expertise they need for generations to come.
Equal Opportunity
- LGT Wealth Management is an equal opportunity employer committed to embracing a diverse and inclusive work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender, marital/parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.