You provide legal support for trading and compliance, manage contracts, and assist with dispute resolution. Your role also involves mentoring junior lawyers and advising on regulatory matters to improve business operations.
Anforderungen
- •More than 15 years of experience
- •UK qualified lawyer
- •Strong individual with excellent communication skills
- •Team player and collaborative approach
- •Strong attention to detail
- •Commercial and pragmatic mindset
- •Ability to assess situations quickly
- •Ability to translate complexity into simple solutions
- •Ability to work within a small team
- •Experience in solving complex problems
- •Ability to understand legal and commercial issues
- •Strong business and legal judgment
- •Analytical approach to solving issues
- •Excellent communication and presentation skills
- •Ability to work well under pressure
- •Law degree or equivalent
- •Admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction
- •English, French and/or Spanish as an advantage
Deine Aufgaben
- •Provide commercial legal advice on trading activities.
- •Support legal and compliance for trading and capital market transactions.
- •Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial contracts.
- •Advise on P&I Club and insurance matters.
- •Offer regulatory and compliance guidance.
- •Assist with dispute resolution and litigation management.
- •Support LDC project activities and business development.
- •Manage file documentation and liaise with local counsel.
- •Track and report on legal costs.
- •Monitor legal and regulatory developments.
- •Mentor junior lawyers in the trade support legal team.
- •Serve as main contact for auditors on litigations.
- •Provide strategic advice to improve business terms.
Deine Vorteile
Competitive salary
Social and financial benefits
Flexible working environment
Training and development access
Original Beschreibung
## Job Description
**Overall Purpose:**
The Trade Support lawyer we are seeking for this position will be based in Geneva to support LDC’s EMEA region.
This lawyer will provide legal support and advice to LDC and its subsidiaries throughout EMEA, supporting commodities platforms, international shipping and commercial activities.
This lawyer will have excellent communication skills and judgement, together with a commercial and business orientated mindset, to provide sound advice and direction to platform leaders. This lawyer will also be pro-active, driven and have the ability to manage and prioritise numerous competing matters and projects.
This lawyer will thrive in a collegiate team setting within a complex, fast changing and challenging environment.
LDC’s lawyers typically manage their assignments themselves and therefore the successful candidate will be expected to take responsibility for their own matters and work independently with minimal supervision, yet as part of a wider Trade Support team. Where it is necessary to instruct external counsel, the lawyer will need to be able to supervise them and manage them effectively.
**Main Responsibilities**
* Provide commercial legal advice focused on trading and operational activity, including contract drafting and negotiation supporting businesses in the EMEA region.
* Provide legal and compliance support with a focus on trading, financial engineering/structured product and capital market transaction matters.
* Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts; this will include LDC trading and sales activity and LDC’s industrial activities;
* Advise on P&I Club and other insurance issues;
* Regulatory and compliance advice and assistance;
* Support with respect to dispute resolution / management of litigation issues, co-ordination with LDC Legal team;
* Assisting with LDC project activities and other business development transactions;
* File management and liaising with local counsel in each jurisdiction as required;
* Active involvement in legal cost reporting and tracking
* Analysis and monitoring of legal and regulatory developments
* Act as mentor and quarterback to the more junior lawyers in the trade support legal team regionally
* Act as main point of contact for auditors to monitor and report material (trade support related) litigations in the region
* Give strategic advice to the Group General Counsel and regional CLO’s to improve terms of business leveraging on lessons learned on the dispute side
**Experience**
* **Experience** *(including number of years)*: More than 15 years, ideally including time in private practice ideally with 5+ years in a trading house with experience training in-house at a commodities trading company a plus.
* **Knowledge**: UK qualified lawyer. Dual qualification a bonus.
**Skills & Competencies:**
* Strong individual with excellent communication skills is essential.
* Team player and collaborative/collegiate approach.
* Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
* Commercial and pragmatic mindset.
* Must have the ability to assess situations quickly and propose effective solutions.
* Ability to translate complexity into simple solutions and provide continuous feedback and to regularly follow up on all outstanding issues.
* Ability to work within a small team, and across geographies in a large global company.
* Experience in solving day to day complex problems and operational and logistics issues arising from the flow of commodities globally.
* Ability to understand legal and commercial issues quickly, to digest and analyse the situation, to form hypotheses, to draw inferences and to question assumptions, to test ideas, to propose solutions, to discuss and argue constructively.
* Strong business and legal judgment and commercial attitude
* Analytical approach to identifying and practical approach to solving issues
* Excellent aptitudes for communication and presentation, experience of working in an international environment.
* Ability to work well under pressure, to respect deadlines and to assume responsibilities.
**Languages:**
* **Languages**: English ,French and/or Spanish as well would be an advantage.
**Academics**
* Law degree or equivalent.
* Admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction (common law jurisdiction preferred)
**Diversity & Inclusion**
**LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards**
Diversity is part of our DNA. LDC strives to create a diverse and inclusive work environment where people can thrive regardless of gender, sexuality, ethnicity or background.
**Sustainability**
**Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company**
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us.