oaknorth.ai - OakNorth - Associate Director Legal Counsel
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Requirements
• Likely 2-4 years’ post-qualification experience, with flexibility to consider candidates with less or more experience depending on capability, judgment and fit. • Training at a strong law firm and/or relevant in-house experience, ideally with exposure to transactional legal work. • Grounding in financial services, fintech, banking, funds or capital markets work, with comfort operating in a regulated environment - including the ability to spot issues, frame initial advice and identify when specialist external input is needed. • Interest in working across both transactional and regulatory matters rather than specialising narrowly in one lane. • Strong drafting, negotiation and transaction management skills, with the ability to manage multiple matters and keep projects moving. • Good commercial instinct and an interest in understanding the business, its strategy and how legal can add value. • Ability to operate as a practical business partner, not just a technical legal adviser. • Comfort taking ownership of process-heavy workstreams, coordinating stakeholders and driving execution on transactions and strategic projects. • Excellent communication skills, sound judgment, attention to detail and a proactive, adaptable approach. • The role offers close day-to-day partnership with the Director, Legal Counsel, with increasing ownership over time. Interest in growing with the role, team and business is key, including willingness to take on a broad remit in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
• Support the provision of legal advice on house matters. This will include: • preparing first drafts and reviewing and negotiating complex documentation relating both to OakNorth products and internal corporate matters; and • carrying out legal research, providing initial analysis and developing practical guidance for internal stakeholders. • Help coordinate and run legal workstreams on strategic projects such as investments, joint ventures, integrations, reorganisations and business exits. • Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. • Secondary focus: • Support the Director with the provision of legal advice on strategic matters. • Support corporate governance, entity management, compliance and broader risk management matters as needed. • Supervise work produced by offshore resources, including on commercial contract matters. • Contribute to the development and scaling of the legal function, including process improvement, knowledge management and the use of legal technology and GenAI tools.
Benefits
• Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned. • 25 days holiday • Personalized benefits – opt-in to what matters to you • Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave • Wellbeing and social events • In-house Barista Bar in London office • Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off • Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric car scheme)
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