Senior Legal Counsel - Insurance

Taylor Root; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company seeks an Underwriting Legal Counsel in London on a 12-month contract. This crucial role involves supporting complex (re)insurance transactions, providing legal oversight, and ensuring timely and cost-effective external counsel management, offering a chance to work in a dynamic market environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable transactional experience in insurance and/or structured finance.
• Experience in the insurance industry is essential.
• Ability to provide pragmatic, solutions-based counsel.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal leadership across all underwriting-related transactions.
• Negotiate and draft complex legal documentation.
• Instruct and manage external counsel on complex matters.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship Building

Communication Skills

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Job description

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Director - In-house Banking and Financial Services team at Taylor Root

A leading Insurance Company is looking to appoint an Underwriting Legal Counsel in London on a 12-month contract. There is potential for this role to become permanent. This is an exciting opportunity to join a market leader and make a valuable contribution to the successful functioning of the legal team.

This role is central to supporting the negotiation, structuring, and execution of a wide range of complex and bespoke (re)insurance transactions, particularly those at the intersection of insurance and capital markets. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders to deliver high-quality legal solutions in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Duties will include:

Provide strategic legal leadership and oversight across all underwriting-related transactions, including:

• Funded and unfunded regulatory capital relief deals
• Structured credit transactions
• Asset-backed non-payment insurance across multiple asset classes
• Oversee the negotiation and drafting of complex legal documentation, ensuring clarity, risk alignment, and support of commercial goals.
• Instruct and manage external counsel on complex matters, ensuring external advice is commercial, timely, and cost-effective.

You will be a qualified Lawyer with demonstrable transactional experience in insurance and/or structured finance. It is essential to be able to demonstrate a pragmatic solutions-based counsel and strong relationship building skills combined with excellent communication skills. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, acting with a degree of independence whilst being part of a supportive and collegiate culture. You must have the flexibility and drive to support a multidisciplinary team with a solutions-based attitude.

Experience working in the Insurance industry is essential.

If the role is of interest, please get in touch!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Insurance

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