Lawyer - Asset Management & Investment Funds
A Top Tier Irish Law Firm Asset Management & Investment Funds team has a fantastic opportunity for a hard-working and enthusiastic lawyer to join the team, reporting directly to one of the Funds partners.
The group is a top ranked, experienced, and dynamic group of specialists, offering comprehensive legal, regulatory and taxation services to clients in Ireland and internationally. This firm’s clients include global asset managers, investment banks, fund administration groups, depositaries, prime brokers, investors in funds such as pension funds and insurance companies and other financial services organizations.
There is the opportunity to work alongside this firm’s market leading Asset Management & Investment Funds team comprises five partners, and over thirty-five lawyers and other professionals including two dedicated professional support lawyers, and corporate secretarial, listing and foreign registration specialists.
This role gives an individual to work alongside other specialist teams within in the firm, which include the tax, finance, financial regulation, real estate, corporate, data protection and regulatory risk and investigation groups.
This firm advises on the full range of Irish fund products including UCITS, AIFs, REITs, exchange traded funds and money market funds. We advise on funds investing both passively and actively and in liquid and illiquid strategies in all asset classes.
Responsibilities/ Duties:
· Support senior management in the formation and launch of European structures, from an AIFM, ManCo and MiFID perspective
· Review, negotiate, draft and maintain contractual and other legal documentation
· Assist in researching and identifying legal risks and developing solutions to complex legal questions
· Keep abreast of legislative changes that may affect the organisation and its compliance with applicable laws and report same to senior management
· Undertake legal drafting work and negotiation
· Project manage relationships
· Work effectively within tight deadlines, working to push projects forward and avoid the delays associated with seeking legal advice whilst maintaining a high level of service and work product
· Manage various internal and external deadlines, dealing on a day to day basis with both immediate legal concerns and long-term project work
· Successfully balance client support with internal legal case load
· Balance legal risk against the commercial requirements, to find workable and commercial solutions to legal problems
· Work directly with clients and external counsel to ensure a commercially and legally satisfactory outcome
· Compose and prepare and review confidential correspondence, strategic and legal reports and memorandum, and other complex legal documentation
· Spearhead local and European legal projects and take responsibility for and ownership of projects with legal elements. Proactively drive matters forward to ensure legal compliance.
Skills and Experience:
· A minimum of one years' post qualification experience in Asset Management & Investment Funds
· Hard-working, enthusiastic and dedicated team member
· Strong technical, legal and analytical skills
· Proficient drafting skill
· A keen interest in knowledge and continuous development
· Excellent communication skills in the context of both formal 'podium' and training presentations and the ability to sell ideas and initiatives to people
· Strong team player with the ability to interact with colleagues at all levels
Why should you apply?
In addition to working with a market leading team the firm also offer:
· A competitive remuneration package
· Access to the firm’s marquee training and development programmes
· Discretionary sign-on bonus and/or relocation bonus
· Discretionary performance bonus
· Pension and health insurance contribution, clubs and subs contribution, marriage/civil partnership gratuity and leave, life insurance, complimentary conveyancing allowance and a subsidized restaurant and coffee shop