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About the Role
Resolution Life is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel, Reinsurance to join our Legal & Compliance team in London. This role focuses on structuring, negotiating, and executing complex reinsurance and related insurance growth transactions, offering significant business exposure and collaboration opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an integral member of core Growth Solutions deal teams for reinsurance and growth transactions, including block and flow asset-intensive reinsurance agreements, and other life insurance arrangements and strategic growth initiatives.
- Participate in the entire transaction lifecycle, from preliminary bids and indications of interest through to deal signing and closing.
- Provide pragmatic, commercial legal advice on structuring, negotiating, and executing reinsurance and similar transactions, managing legal input into the overall deal process.
- Review, draft, advise on, and negotiate a wide variety of agreements, including confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, purchase and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, reinsurance agreements, collateral and security documentation, trust agreements, custodian and account control agreements, derivatives and repackaged notes documentation, and administrative services agreements.
- Manage and oversee outside law firms to obtain cost-effective legal services on reinsurance and related arrangements, ensuring budget control.
- Liaise with Senior Investment Counsel on investment management and trust agreements related to transactions and provide support for investment-related diligence requests.
- Work closely with the business to understand commercial objectives and source input from other key Group-wide functional teams for transaction documentation.
- Stay updated on regulatory developments affecting reinsurance business, particularly in relevant jurisdictions.
- Participate in strategic and tactical decision-making and provide counsel to senior management on legal aspects of contemplated transactions.
- Advise and collaborate closely with other functions, including finance, actuarial, investments, risk, and operations.
- Ensure adherence to internal processes and governance, including Board approvals and operating guidelines, for transactions.
- Prepare high-standard presentations, briefing notes, and other documents in a timely fashion.
- Proactively manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to discussions on new initiatives and opportunities, ensuring follow-up.
- Provide general legal advice as part of the broader Legal & Compliance team.
Requirements
- Law degree or equivalent with relevant post-graduate diploma, SQE1 and SQE2, or alternative legal qualification.
- Qualified solicitor in England (or other common law jurisdiction) with 7+ years PQE (7-12 years PQE preferred, but applications outside this range will be considered).
- Experience working on reinsurance arrangements or corporate insurance-related legal matters, either in-house or in private practice.
- Experience in (or interest in learning about) derivatives and repackaged notes transactions relating to reinsurance arrangements is a bonus.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Collegiate and collaborative with the ability to build relationships with a broad network of internal stakeholders.
- Team player capable of contributing and developing expertise in multiple areas with limited guidance.
- Ability to work as an individual contributor, taking initiative, solving problems, and finding solutions.
- Ability to cope with ambiguity and prioritize confidently.
- Ability to work under pressure with a high degree of attention to detail, effectively prioritize workload, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills and sound judgment.
- Demonstrated leadership presence and skills.
- Superior interpersonal, organizational, written, and oral communications skills.
- Ability to make recommendations and drive actions independently, prioritizing multiple requirements.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure with a good sense of humor.
Skills
- Customer Focused
- Critical Thinking
- Team Mentality
- Business Acumen
- Learning Agility
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Law degree or equivalent
About the Company
- Resolution Life is headquartered in Bermuda, with regulated insurance operations in Bermuda and the United States and business operations in Bermuda, the United States, the UK, Singapore, and Canada.
- We are part of the Nippon Life group, acquired by Nippon Life in October 2025.
- Our mission is to protect financial futures by delivering forward-thinking solutions that support the long-term growth of the primary life insurance industry, honouring promises made to policyholders and fulfilling commitments for the benefit of society.
- We offer a culture of collaboration and innovation, leveraging technology to achieve our dynamic growth strategy.