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About the Role
Join the Retirement Solutions & Asset Management legal team as Senior Legal Counsel, primarily supporting Standard Life’s Private Markets Asset Management team. You will advise investment teams on the origination, structuring, execution, and management of private debt and real asset investments, delivering complex transactions and providing pragmatic, commercially focused legal support.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal support for private debt, real estate finance, infrastructure debt and other illiquid investments.
- Review and negotiate term sheets, confidentiality agreements and financing documents.
- Manage legal workstreams through execution and closing.
- Act as the main liaison between investment teams and external counsel.
- Support acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, amendments, waivers and consents.
- Advise on investment structures, fund vehicles, co-investments, top-ups and securitisations.
- Support new investment products and asset classes.
- Assess the legal and regulatory impact of proposed investment strategies.
- Identify and manage legal risks from investment activity.
- Support investment approval and credit committee processes.
- Advise on insurer-specific regulation, including Matching Adjustment eligibility.
- Develop and maintain legal policies, procedures and precedents.
- Build trusted relationships across investment, credit, risk, compliance and finance teams.
- Give pragmatic, commercial advice that balances legal risk and business objectives.
- Deliver training and legal updates to investment and operational teams.
- Manage external legal advisers for efficient, cost-effective delivery.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales or Scotland.
- Post-qualification experience gained through a mix of in-house and private practice.
- Background in finance transactions, commercially minded and solutions focused.
- Experience negotiating term sheets, loan agreements, security documents, intercreditor arrangements and related finance documentation.
- Demonstrable ability to manage complex transactions from origination through execution.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Pragmatic, resilient and outcomes driven.
- Strong commercial judgement and ability to provide practical solutions whilst working independently and collaborating effectively across teams.
- Real estate or Infrastructure finance experience.
- Direct lending or private credit experience.
- Experience acting for institutional investors, banks, debt funds or insurance companies.
- Familiarity with insurer investment requirements and capital frameworks.
- Experience supporting private markets or real assets investment teams.
Skills
- Finance transactions
- Negotiating term sheets
- Loan agreements
- Security documents
- Intercreditor arrangements
- Finance documentation
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial judgement
- Independent work
- Collaboration
- Real estate finance
- Infrastructure finance
- Direct lending
- Private credit
- Institutional investors
- Banks
- Debt funds
- Insurance companies
- Insurer investment requirements
- Capital frameworks
- Private markets investment
- Real assets investment
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
- Part-time
- Job-share
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales or Scotland
Salary/Compensations
- £110,000 - £140,000
- 30-60% indicative bonus range
Benefits
- Private medical cover
- 38 days annual leave
- Up to 12% employer pension contribution
- 12x salary life assurance
- Career breaks
- Income protection
- 3x volunteering days
About the Company
- Standard Life is a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income.
- We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better.
- For more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
- Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable.
- People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices.
- We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings.
- In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards.
- We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
- If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
- If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.