Our client is one of the leading global law firms with over 40 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Their Investment Funds team advises on all aspects of investment funds and pooled investment with a particular focus on alternative investment funds such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity funds. We are now looking for an exceptional Private Equity and Investment Funds Senior Knowledge Lawyer to join their busy, successful, and highly regarded Investment Funds team.
Senior Knowledge Lawyer - Private Equity and Investment Funds
London
£330-400K plus excellent benefits package.
To be successful in this role:
We are looking for a senior investment funds lawyer, with at least seven years of post-qualification experience (or equivalent) and who has worked at a senior associate or higher level in private practice. The successful candidate will have a broad range of experience across investment funds in a range of real asset classes, as well as key regulation such as the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, and ideally also some experience with listed funds. Additional experience in corporate real estate vehicles would also be a bonus. Previous experience in a knowledge lawyer role within a comparable practice team may be beneficial but is not essential, and other requirements for this role include:
* Works to a high standard, showing sound judgment and attention to detail
* Effectively prioritises and manages own time
* Highly developed organisational ability
* Dynamic, self-starter, energetic and enthusiastic
* Takes ownership of projects and tasks and progresses them independently
* Able to work under pressure and remain focused
* Leverages available resources
* Interested in the law, knowledge and the use of legal technology in effective knowledge sharing
* Interested in business drivers of law firms
* Able to communicate (written and verbal) effectively in a multi-cultural environment
* Works effectively within a large organisational structure
* Contributes to discussion and accepts the consensus
* Understands and promotes connections between other practice/industry sector teams, Marketing & Business Development, Learning & Development, Research Services, IT and other business services’ departments
Job role and responsibilities:
* Suggest and implement processes for efficient and systematic knowledge management
* Assist with the collection, drafting, maintenance, automation and updating of the team’s knowledge, particularly model documents, the team’s transaction bibles, key data gathering, and other precedents, and practice-specific legal opinions
* Liaise with the Private Equity & Investment Funds Partners and Research Services to help manage the team’s external knowledge subscriptions
* Help to ensure accessibility of high-quality training materials by developing and coordinating a training programme for the lawyers in the team
* Prepare and deliver various training sessions and training materials for the trainees, newly qualified lawyers and as part of the team who will deliver the team training programme to the Private Equity & Investment Funds lawyers at all levels of seniority
* Introduce laws joining the team to the team’s knowledge resources
* Research, monitor and analyse legal, market and industry developments and trends, and consider how they will affect the team’s clients and work
* Assist in producing horizon scanners and similar pieces for key team clients
* Identify key legal developments and "hot topics" that provide an opportunity to showcase the firm’s experience and insight via client alerts, webinars, seminars and events and help prepare the content needed to produce such thought leadership materials
* Liaise with the Private Equity and Investment Funds Partners and Marketing & Business Development to help identify business opportunities for the team
* Support the development, implementation and communication of the knowledge strategy for the team, working closely with the Private Equity & Investment Funds Partners and Regional Head of Knowledge