Senior Legal Litigation Counsel

Senior Legal Litigation Counsel - UK and EU Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations (“LREI”)– GCB4 – London/Birmingham

 

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Global Legal plays an important role in protecting HSBC’s reputation, helping to safeguard the organisation by providing robust and comprehensive advice on legal issues and risks. Our lawyers advise senior management and the Global Businesses and Functions. They offer a range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all the countries and territories in which HSBC operates.

 

We are currently seeking an experienced lawyer with strong experience of managing a range of litigation for the role of Senior Legal Counsel in the Litigation Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations team in the UK..As the Senior Legal Litigation Counsel, you will be part of a team that provides litigation, regulatory enforcement and investigations-related advice, guidance, and support to the HSBC Group in the UK. You will provide strategic leadership, expert legal advice, and manage your own portfolio of complex UK/EU litigation cases.

 

In this role, you will:

 

• Manage a docket of complex litigations, as well as UK-based and cross-border regulatory enforcement matters and legally privileged investigations, aiming to achieve the best possible outcomes for the Bank in a cost-effective manner
• Provide advice to the business and legal stakeholders on BAU litigation matters such as court orders, pre-action claims, FOS complaints which require litigation input, strategic projects which give rise to litigation risk
• Provide legal and strategic advice to HSBC senior management regarding contentious matters that present legal and reputational risk to the Bank and undertake root cause analyses and "lessons learned" to minimize and prevent recurrence of non-financial risks
• Ensure that relevant litigation and regulatory enforcement matters are properly accounted for and disclosed
• Evaluate and respond to changes in applicable legal and regulatory requirements

 

 

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

 

• Qualified Lawyer, with extensive experience, handling a mix of complex civil litigation and regulatory enforcement matters as well as internal investigations.
• Experience of working with financial services clients with a keen interest in the industry and curiosity to learn more about the multijurisdictional and regulatory environment is a pre-requisite
• Ability to prioritise, often flexiibly against the backdrop of changing facts and stakeholder demands
• Very strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong lateral thinking/problem solving ability with forward-leaning proactive approach
• Ability to manage, partner with, and challenge external counsel

 

The base location for this role is London or Birmingham with a hybrid working pattern.

 

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