Top Expert Legal Counsel (m/w/d)

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17.04.2025

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01.06.2025

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Top Expert Legal Counsel (m/w/d)

Festanstellung durch unseren Kunden Zürich Startdatum: sofort Referenznummer: 766450/1

• Support the ART business teams in the negotiation and execution of transactions and other deal-related activities and proactively manage all relevant legal and regulatory aspects of international transactions, including cross-border counterparty credit risk mitigating structures and collateral management.
• Draft and/or review documentation relating to the company's insurance and reinsurance business (binders, slips, contracts, I&L Agreements, trust agreements, assignments, LOCs, and NDAs) against ART’s internal standards and business requirements.
• Promote and maintain relationships with brokers and key business partners including participating in regular conference calls/meetings with key clients to obtain feedback on outstanding contract issues.
• Provide solution-oriented and practical legal advice & support as well as functional guidance for management and business teams and monitor legal, regulatory, compliance & internal developments affecting ART LoB’s business.
• Actively participate and provide actionable guidance in legal practice group and underwriting meetings for the ART business teams, and perform required legal sign-offs in line with ART Legal’s internal standards.
• Support good governance within the existing UW Governance framework and coach the UW community on legal, regulatory, and general compliance topics.
• Manage internal and external customer expectations; anticipate issues and concerns of internal customers and address them proactively and directly.
• Ensure good knowledge transfer of relevant issues to other members of the ART Legal team and the AGCS Legal department, material developments in laws and best practices.

Ihr Profil

• At least 10 years experience and qualified to practice law, in Switzerland or another German speaking European country, at least 5 years experience in structuring and documenting complex, cross-jurisdictional financial transactions, with a focus on insurance and reinsurance transactions (involving multiple legal entities in multiple jurisdictions) under English law and other governing laws commonly used in international (re-) insurance.
• Excellent understanding of regulatory implications of cross-border (re-)insurance transactions and self-procured (non-admitted business), as well as familiarity with the principles of European regulations on financial instruments and capital markets (EMIR; MiFID).
• Experience operating in regulated environments, including an understanding of internal control framework, as well as capital and compliance requirements under the Solvency II framework.
• Able to work in an international matrix organization and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to actively participate in client negotiations; solid understanding of key risk drivers and key economics typical for a complex /reinsurance transaction.
• Solid business acumen and broad understanding of economic drivers and implications of structured insurance & reinsurance transactions and other alternative risk transfer instruments, like sidecars, ILS and hedging in derivatives form.
• Strong personality, ability to think holistically and willingness to contribute beyond own technical area of expertise.
• Able to negotiate and draft legal documentation in English and German and proficient to communicate in another main European language.

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