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Senior Legal Counsel

  • Location:

    London

  • Sector:

    In-house Legal

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Contact:

    Jackson Baker

  • Contact email:

    jackson@rutherfordsearch.com

  • Contact phone:

    020 3778 0771

  • Published:

    about 1 month ago

  • Expiry date:

    2024-11-08

​Our Client

We are currently supporting a specialist commodities and trade finance business that are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel in London. The firm are currently 200+ people in London and have offices across NY, Middle East and Europe. The role will act as a strategic advisor to the commodities and trade finance teams, reporting into the Global General Counsel.

Main Duties

Key responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to:

  • Lead all legal matters for the firm's four strategies in commodity trading and trade finance.

  • Provide expert advice around new product offerings and initiatives

  • Execute all transaction documentation and provide transactional support where appropriate

  • Assist on corporate governance and regulatory related matters

Your Profile

  • UK qualified with c.5 - 8PQE, ideally from a trade finance background

  • Understanding of physical commodities and commodity trading would be beneficial

For more information about this position, please get in touch with Jackson Baker.
Email: jackson@rutherfordsearch.com
Phone: 020 3778 0771

About Rutherford
Rutherford is a boutique search firm located in London. Our consultants are executive specialists in compliance recruitment, and also in in-house legal and private practice legal, all within the financial and legal services sectors in the United Kingdom and New York. We use our carefully curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. We work with a wide range of clients, spanning from advisors, management consultants, corporate and commercial banks, brokers, exchanges MTFs and financial tech, through to global investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks. We began as a compliance recruitment firm in London and expanded our offering to now provide new resourcing expertise across legal recruitment, both in-house and private practice. We have been a leading legal and compliance search agency in London for over a decade.