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The Role
To support the Lloyd’s General Counsel and to provide legal and regulatory advice and support to the Lloyd’s senior management, to Lloyd’s committees, to a range of internal departments within Lloyd’s and to Lloyd’s subsidiaries and overseas offices, including market oversight.
Principal Accountabilities
To be responsible to the Head of the Corporate Team as designated at any time for matters referred to below:
1. Leading and being responsible for providing expert and strategic legal advice on a wide range of legal matters related to strategic initiatives and other transactional and regulatory matters, identify issues of highest risk and propose/drive solutions to address them and advise on and influence strategic decision making where appropriate.
2. Leading and being responsible for providing accurate, pragmatic and timely risk-based legal advice on legal issues in relation to Lloyd’s membership, finance (including capital, investment management, tax), regulatory and compliance matters UK and international).
3. Leading and being responsible for drafting, negotiating, reviewing and advising on complex commercial agreements, including but not limited to, services agreements, consultancy contracts, engagement letters, terms and conditions, software licences, maintenance agreements, data transfer agreements, outsourcing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and providing accurate, pragmatic and timely risk-based legal advice on legal issues in relation to such commercial contracts, and on IT, intellectual property (IP) and data protection matters.
4. Identify, monitor and assess legal risks associated with Lloyd’s operations and actively provides proactive and innovative solutions to mitigate those risks.
5. Drafts with precision to avoid adverse consequences and exercises good judgment in negotiation of contracts and giving advice.
6. Uses knowledge and pragmatism to identify when to involve other business areas.
7. Is open to change and adapts and responds positively to it and is willing to challenge and to seek out new opportunities.
8. Effectively manages and communicates with clients/stakeholders on individual workstreams and projects. Communicates, explains and presents complex legal or business information and consequences of decisions in a simple and accessible way.
9. Effectively plans and prioritises workloads.
10. Effectively communicates progress of ongoing matters at regular intervals to clients and to the respective Head and, as appropriate, the General Counsel.
11. Instruct and manage outside firms of solicitors and other external advisers where appropriate.
Skills
12. Commercial awareness & an ability to provide clear advice to meet the business objectives.
13. Negotiation Skills
14. Effective Stakeholder Management and Collaborative Skills
15. Risk Management Skills
16. Legal Research Skills
17. Analytical ability
18. Strategic thinking and analysis
19. Drafting skills
20. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
21. Team-player but ability to manage own workload
22. Flexible approach
23. Articulate, honest and authoritative in finding the right style and words to influence, challenge or motivate others.
24. Inquisitive and testing, asks the right questions in the correct circumstances and then (if appropriate) acts on that information.
Experience
25. Experience of providing risk based legal advice on a wide variety of commercial, corporate and regulatory matters
26. Experience of working with a range of internal and external stakeholders including senior stakeholders.
27. Experience of progressing a variety of matters at the same time and with competing deadlines.
28. Experience of managing cross-directorate and multi-stakeholder matters and projects.
29. Experience of leading project teams.