Bristol
Full Time
Permanent
Competitive
TLT is a leading adviser to the financial services industry. The firm acts for the largest UK banks and other leading firms. We are now looking to grow our Financial Services Regulatory team and we are keen to hear from Managing Associates/Legal Directors, with over 6 years PQE, who are ambitious and want to join a team who has a strategic aim to be the best in the UK.
The successful candidate would have the opportunity to play a significant role in the development of our retail financial services practice, with excellent prospects for career advancement in a supportive and exciting environment. You can enjoy flexible working arrangements and can be based out of any of our UK offices.
Your Role
You would join the Financial Services Regulatory team. We are looking for lawyers who particularly want to specialise in retail financial services (consumer credit, mortgages, retail banking and payments regulation). The team already has a very strong reputation in the retail financial services sector and advises banks, building societies and specialist lenders on the complete range of regulatory matters affecting their business. The team is ranked in Chambers and Partners for Consumer Finance.
In addition to this core focus, the team has a growing and wider financial regulatory practice. This practice covers wealth and asset management, and funds and funds management.
You can expect to work for leading financial services firms on their strategically important matters. You should expect to work on these sorts of areas:
In addition to the technical work on matters, you will also take on these roles:
Your Skills and Experience
To be considered for this role, strong technical financial regulation experience is essential. This can have been gained working in private practice, in house, or in a compliance or public affairs role. Ideally you will be a qualified lawyer, but we would consider compliance professionals who have had a very technical role.
Ideally, you will have had significant experience working on retail financial services and payments regulation, but you do not need experience of all the technical areas. You must have a desire to practice across these areas and develop new complementary specialisms to your current ones if necessary.
It is also essential that you have a real and genuine interest in financial regulation and in particular the retail financial services sector. You will be given support to develop technically, but you also need a strong self learning approach to your development.
You will have/be: