Senior Contract Lawyer (Consultant) - Financial Services Regulation

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 Contract Lawyers, with over 6 years PQE to support our growing team.

We'd like you to have technical knowledge and experience in advising on wholesale pensions, funds, structured finance, securitisation, and private equity although retail and payment regulatory experience would be welcome too.

This role will be on a day rate contract and is likely to be 6 months in length we a view to extend. This will be a remote role working via an Umbrella company. We would be happy to see applications from candidates who are looking for part time opportunties.

The Role

You would support the Financial Services Regulatory team. 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.

• 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:
• Assisting clients to develop new products and services, providing end to end regulatory support, including structuring products, drafting agreements, working on comms, working through detailed systems builds;
• Helping clients when things don’t go according to plan, including assessing regulatory issues and remediation strategies;
• Assisting clients to implement new regulatory requirements, including BNPL, consumer credit and payments reform;
• Assisting clients with general regulatory compliance, including with Consumer Duty and consumer law compliance. 

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. 

You will have/be:

• Qualified solicitor 6yrs + PQE
• Able to demonstrate high quality communication skills with the ability and confidence to engage with clients and colleagues at all levels
• Able to provide strategic advice to a variety of TLT clients with little or no supervision
• Must have experience in working in financial services regulation.
• Ability to juggle a busy and varied workload
• Enthusiastic & team approach to working

The Team

TLT is immersed in the financial services industry, which represents over 40% of our turnover.

The financial services industry is facing an unprecedented rate of regulatory change and our key relationships within our client base provide the opportunity to serve our clients further in this in this important and critical area.

Our proactive approach to providing insight and advice upon future risks and their solutions enables us to help clients navigate the challenges of regulatory change and scrutiny, rapid digital innovation and heightened operational risk.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,400 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2022 we were named Law Firm of the Year at The British Legal Awards, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com