Senior Employment Counsel – EMEA

Taylor Root Dusseldorf; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution in London is seeking a Senior Employment Lawyer to join their dynamic in-house legal team. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in employment law, focusing on advisory, corporate support, and litigation. This role offers exposure to various legal areas affecting the business and the chance to work on cross-border projects and contractual agreements. Attractive working environment with collaborative team culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of PQE in employment law, advisory, corporate support, and litigation.
• Experience from a top-tier law firm and in-house at a regulated financial services business is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support across a large and varied workforce.
• Manage cross-border projects, contractual agreements, and disputes.
• Identify and manage legal risks while liaising with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Legal support

Strong drafting skills

Excellent communication

Proactive attitude

Education

Strong academics

Job description

Leading global financial institution seeks a senior employment lawyer to join their highly skilled in‑house legal team in London focussing on the EMEA region with some international work.

This is a unique opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic team, with an interesting and broad spread of contentious and non‑contentious employment work on offer. They are looking for an adept and experienced employment lawyer to provide legal support across the organisations large and varied workforce and across jurisdictions. This will include cross‑border projects, contractual agreements, TUPE, corporate transactions, restructures, disputes, grievances, disciplinary matters, internal policies and procedures, compensation and benefits, whistleblowing, DEI initiatives, restrictive covenants and terminations as well as managing claims. In addition to supporting on these areas, the role will be to proactively identify and manage legal risk and to liaise with senior stakeholders and work closely with HR.

You will have proven experience as an employment lawyer with over 8 or more years’ PQE in advisory, corporate support and litigation preferably from a top tier law firm and in‑house experience at a regulated financial services business is a bonus. Attitude is important in this collaborative team, so the ideal candidate will be versatile, efficient, proactive with strong drafting skills, mature, discreet and an excellent communicator with strong academics.

This is an excellent opportunity offering a broad range of work with genuine exposure to all legal areas affecting the business to do with people.

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