Senior Legal Professional

Allen & Overy LLP; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Belfast is seeking Senior Legal Professionals to join its Global Financial Markets team. This role includes managing teams, advising on legal matters, and coordinating complex transactions, offering a dynamic environment for legal experts. Successful candidates will work closely with clients and legal stakeholders, while being a part of a collaborative culture focused on excellence and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial environment, ideally with a law firm or financial institution.
• Experience related to capital markets or finance is preferred.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage the work of Legal Professionals and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Develop relationships with Partners and Associates for ongoing cases.
• Provide legal expertise including drafting and reviewing documentation.

Skills

Organisational skills

Relationship-building

Legal technology affinity

Job description

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 28 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

The Team

A&O Shearman’s Advanced Delivery Legal (ADL) team plays an increasing role in delivering important elements of major litigation cases and transactions, as well as in coordinating teams of lawyers from around the world. ADL is a key part of A&O Shearman’s advanced delivery of legal services to its clients, making intelligent use of technology and complementing the traditional law services provided by A&O Shearman throughout the world. We have created a truly collaborative culture where talented individuals work together and can flourish and achieve great things. The ADL Belfast team includes specialists with expertise across Disputes, Corporate, Global Financial Markets, Real Estate, & Banking.

Our ADL Global Financial Markets (GFM) team comprises high-quality, tech-enabled associates and legal professionals. They provide cost-effective support on a range of matters, including debt and equity-linked capital markets instruments, derivatives, securitizations and other structured finance work.

We are seeking Senior Legal Professionals to join the growing GFM team in Belfast.

Key Relationships

• Senior and Managing Associates
• Legal and Senior Legal Professionals
• Clients and internal stakeholders
• Legal Technology and Project Management teams

Role & Responsibilities

Within the GFM team you will:

• Develop strong working relationships with Partners and Associates from other offices, interacting with them on a daily basis as an extension to their team to understand and assist on current deals and cases;
• Manage and liaise with internal and external clients to address points of relevance or concern, resolve queries and issues and report on progress;
• Manage the work of Legal Professionals within the team, ensuring that individuals are assigned to a particular matter have the required skills, knowledge and support to deliver outputs that are on time and of the highest quality;
• Advise and educate Legal Professionals on points of commercial and legal detail including quality checking their work;
• Provide legal expertise, including drafting, reviewing and amending documentation, document management, legal research, maintaining and improving templates and precedents; and
• Supervise, develop and motivate Legal Professionals, instilling an excellent service delivery ethos and impeccable quality standards.

Key Requirements

• Experience in a commercial environment such as a US, City, or major regional law firm or experience gained in-house with a bank or other financial institution.
• Experience in an area related to capital markets (straight debt or derivatives or securitisation) is preferred - although applicants with a strong Finance background may also be considered.
• Experience of co-ordinating complex multi-faceted matters, including multi-jurisdictional matters.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Good relationship-building skills – a team player with the ability to establish credibility and inspire confidence with clients and senior colleagues.
• Demonstrate a high level of affinity with legal technology and a desire to expand experience in legal technology.
• Flexible, resourceful, and prepared to take a hands-on-approach, comfortable operating in a rapidly evolving business and interested in identifying and shaping that evolution.