financial professional London, England
Job description
Financial Services Regulation Solicitor - City of London - Private Practice
The Firm
Top Tier, US, law firm is actively seeking to recruit a talented and ambitious FS Regulation Solicitor due to continued expansion.
This is a rare opportunity to work on both contentious and non-contentious Financial Services matters
The Team
The London office's Financial Service Team provides integrated regulatory advice in respect of advisory, transactional and contentious regulatory matters spanning the full range of sub-sectors within the wider financial services sector in particular: payments, crypto, consumer credit, funds, retail and wholesale investments, insurers and intermediaries, and market infrastructure providers. Within these sectors, the team has an increasing focus on FinTech clients, spanning the full scope of the sub-sectors set out above.
The team has been involved in some of the highest profile regulatory matters of recent years, including advising a number of large household name financial institutions on their Brexit plans, advising large, rapidly scaling FinTech organisations on global expansion projects, as well as representing firms and individuals in significant regulatory investigations. The team is also at the forefront of new technological and policy developments, with an increasing focus on the use of Blockchain/DLT in financial services, advice on cryptoassets regulations, and on ESG reforms.
The team prides itself on a friendly and collegiate environment
The Role
The work on offer is a broad range of non-contentious, advisory, transactional and contentious matters.
You will enjoy advising clients on a wide range of matters, with a particular focus on implementation of new regulatory requirements, including emerging regulation in the FinTech space and ESG, technical aspects of trading and markets regulation, payments regulation, consumer finance, compliance investigations and regulatory enforcement. You can expect a good variety of work.
The Candidate
You will be a mid-level Associate / Senior Associate with a solid track record in financial services regulation, gained in an established City firm.
Benefits
- Tier 1 firm
- US firm salary structure
- Attractive benefits package
- First class training and career development programme
