Leading offshore law firm are looking to hire an in-house legal counsel to join their specialist in-house legal team that supports the firm world-wide- this role is based in Jersey, however UK based lawyers seeking a remote/ hybrid role are also invited to apply. Role Profile: Working closely with the General Counsel, you will advise on a range of interesting and diverse legal workload covering a number of international locations. Responsibilities include:: Risk Maintain best practice in legal, reputational and operational risk management. Identify, analyse and propose mitigation for legal, reputational and operational risks arising from client mandates. Support the ongoing development of a strong compliance culture. Assist client facing teams in maintaining confidentiality and legal privilege where appropriate Contractual Maintaining our existing global terms of business, supplementary product terms, jurisdiction terms and data processing terms, register of "special terms" clients and the global terms of business manual. Review commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, supplier contracts and licence agreements) from a legal risk perspective and assist directors and senior management to negotiate such contracts when required. Draft and maintain various intra-group agreements including outsourcing agreements, service agreements, management charge letters and outsourcing agreements. Assist with a project to automate our engagement letters and additional documents across all locations to ensure global consistency and best practice. Assist with advising directors and senior management to negotiate bespoke client terms of business when required. Regulatory Assist with advising on outsourcing issues. Assist with advising on obligations arising under applicable codes of practice and other codes and guidance notes published by regulators. Assist on regulatory licence applications, and the process for ending existing registrations. Maintain legal and regulatory small print bank. Advise on the legal and regulatory issues regarding overseas working. Advise on automatic exchange of information laws and regulations including FATCA, CRS DAC6 and MDR. In conjunction with colleagues in our Risk & Compliance team, assist on advising on AML issues including eligible introducer letters and the legal aspects of ABC, SOW/SOF and other CDD related issues. Compliance Prepare papers for local boards and senior management on relevant legal and regulatory issues. Attend quarterly board meetings, if required. Assist in managing senior executive and key stake holder relationships across our locations, if required. Provide legal input on policies, procedures and guidance notes. Internal Projects Assist with preparing the legal section of ILA/SOGA forms. Other colleagues will deal with all governance aspects associated with internal licensing. Assist with advising on new products, entries into new jurisdictions, office moves, acquisitions and disposals, if required. Assist with a project to review, create and update the corporate and trust precedents used by client facing teams in all locations. Maintain & develop the existing knowhow platform used by the in-house legal team. Advise/assist on a wide range of issues, from data protection, sanctions and conflicts of interest and related mitigation measures. Assist client facing teams with responses to client supplier queries in areas such as modern slavery and insurance. Assist client facing teams in all our locations with ad hoc legal queries on company law, trust law and contractual and other matters. Candidate Requirements: Commercial lawyer with circa 1-4 years PQE and ideally with experience of corporate/ funds law. Candidates from practice and in-house are invited to apply (particularly if gained within a regulated environment). On Offer: Competitive salary and benefits - The firm also offer a progressive flexible working approach. To Apply: For a confidential discussion, to request the job description or to apply, please contact click on the Apply Button or Contact Us.