Associate General Counsel

White & Case LLP; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

White & Case is seeking an Associate General Counsel to join its international General Counsel team in London. This position involves advising on corporate governance and compliance, managing risks, and ensuring adherence to regulations. The ideal candidate will have strong transactional law experience and a proven reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice within a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Pension plan with matched employer contribution

Income protection

Yearly wellbeing fund

Life insurance

Critical Illness insurance

Travel insurance

Dental coverage

Cycle to work

Qualifications

• 3-5 years PQE at a leading law firm.
• Experience in a GC/risk team preferred.
• Strong academic qualifications and high-quality legal advice reputation.

Responsibilities

• Advise on global corporate governance and compliance.
• Identify and mitigate legal risks within contracts.
• Support firm in assessing reporting obligations.

Skills

Corporate governance

Regulatory compliance

Legal advice

Risk management

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Qualified transactional lawyer

Practicing certificate in England & Wales and/or New York State

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Are you ready to make your mark as part of our General Counsel Team? Then you’ve come to the right place. At White & Case, we’ll support you, give you responsibility and welcome you as an integral member of our international team from day one.

White & Case is a prominent global law firm with over 2,600 lawyers in 47 offices across six continents, recognised for its top-tier transactional and dispute practices. The firm serves a broad clientele, including leading financial institutions, innovative start-ups, and government entities. Our business is guided by three core values: pioneering innovation, unity, and a human touch.

The Associate General Counsel will work as an integral part of our global Office of the General Counsel (OGC), working closely with partners and business service leads to assist the Firm in the management of risk, including handling corporate structural and regulatory compliance work.

The OGC acts as the Firm’s in-house legal counsel. Its work focuses on the Firm’s global risk management, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and new business intake.

Key Responsibilities

• Advising the Firm on its global structure and corporate governance, including corporate and partnership secretarial issues and the opening, closing, and restructuring of offices
• Advising the Firm on all aspects of global regulatory compliance, responding to new regulations and implementing policies and procedures
• Identifying and mitigating potential legal and business risks within contracts
• Supporting the Firm in assessing current and future reporting obligations given its global structure (for example in relation to Modern Slavery, sanctions legislation, and corporate sustainability laws and regulations)
• Perform other duties necessary to support the Firm's strategic goals

Qualifications and skills

• A qualified transactional lawyer with a practicing certificate admitted in England & Wales and/or New York State, possessing 3-5 years of PQE experience at a leading national or international firm and strong academic qualifications
• Experience in a GC/risk team at a major international law firm (preferred)
• Recognised as a go-to person in specific practice areas, with a reputation for high-quality legal advice and the ability to make commercial, ethical, and strategic decisions in the best interests of the Firm.
• Inspires a team-oriented environment where members go above and beyond to deliver high-quality work, fostering collaboration, diligence, precision, and attention to detail.
• Anticipates and responds effectively to firm needs, manages expectations, and adapts to different styles and cultural sensitivities.
• Communicates and presents complex issues clearly, translating and explaining them to others while delivering difficult messages with conviction and confidence.
• Leverages creative thinking, versatile abilities, and emotional intelligence to solve challenges and understand what matters to others.
• Demonstrates expertise in compliance, risk management, and the development and delivery of related training.
• Possesses excellent drafting, document management, and project management skills, ensuring the successful completion of multiple projects in a matrixed environment.
• Proficient in standard business software applications (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

What We Offer

When you join us, you’ll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day.We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a General Counsel professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Location & Reporting

• This role is based in London, and reports into the Deputy General Counsel (Head of Regulatory and Corporate Governance).
• Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.

Firm Benefits

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:

• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
• Yearly wellbeing fund
• Income protection
• Holiday purchase
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Private GP services
• Travel insurance
• Dental coverage
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)

Equal Opportunity Statement

White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us . We will be happy to work with you.

Note to recruitment agencies: Ourinternal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction.

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team.

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