Legal Counsel - Litigation (14 month FTC)

London, England, United Kingdom

4/16/2025

Overall Summary

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Join the Close Brothers Legal Team where you will offer legal and commercial focused advice on a wide range of business, transactional, legal risk management and regulatory issues across the Bank with a primary focus on contentious matters but also covering regulated lending, asset finance, invoice finance and project/transactional work.

Responsibilities

• Legal advice and support in relation to litigation management, including contentious matters affecting Commercial businesses (including, where relevant, liaison with insurers, external counsel and internal stakeholders)
• Providing legal advice and support on a wide range of strategic, business, legal risk management and regulatory issues for the Commercial businesses
• Working with colleagues in the Bank’s Commercial businesses and across Central Functions (including Compliance, Risk, Corporate Development, Finance, and Third Party Management)
• Structuring, review and negotiation of a range of commercial / corporate contracts and engagements and advising on legal / risk ramifications, including engagements with external counsel and other advisers
• Adding value across a wide range of legal areas including litigation, insolvency, and lending as well as areas where the candidate is not a subject matter expert but where they have the confidence and ability to provide support (with the involvement of external counsel, where appropriate)
• Develop effective and integrated relationships and credibility with (i) internal stakeholders across the Group and (ii) external stakeholders (including external counsel, insurers and other advisers)
  
  
  
  

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF HAVE/ARE:

• A well-rounded, broadly based lawyer with demonstrable intellectual capabilities and an excellent career track record
• Contentious financial services experience
• A broad legal experience to date including in the areas of litigation and wider contentious support but also supporting wider financial services/regulated business workstreams, with an ability and willingness to provide generalist legal advice, including in areas where the candidate may not be a subject matter expert
• A solid understanding of the financial services industry and issues affecting Close Brothers
• Ability to act as a credible ambassador for the legal team in key decision-making meetings and the ability to take ownership for delivery of strategic projects.
• A technically strong, pragmatic, business-orientated lawyer with the breadth of experience covering commercial and other broad-based legal and regulatory risk issues
• Sound legal judgement with a strong appreciation of legal risk and an ability to communicate to all levels of the business
  
  
  
  

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:

• In house experience (whether through secondments or permanent roles) an advantage
  
  
  
  

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at [email protected] or request a call back.

About Us

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

To find out more about life at Close Brothers:

https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541

To find out more about our benefits:

https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits

To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:

Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion ¦ Close Brothers Group