In-House Litigation Lawyer - SFC, Regulatory, Client Complaints (VP/SVP)
Location: Hong Kong
Background
Our client is a top international banking and financial services group with a multi-billion USD market capitalization. You will assist the Legal Department and other internal stakeholders with handling all aspects and types of contentious and litigation disputes. This is a new head count.
You must be a HK qualified lawyer with around minimum 5+ years PQE and be able to read and write in Chinese as well as fluent English.
Prior experience dealing with regulators such as the SFC is a big plus for this role.
Responsibilities:
- Report to Head of Legal and regularly collaborate with other key internal stakeholders, such as Compliance, Risk, Credit, Operations departments and sales departments;
- Provide legal and regulatory advice and support to Business and Compliance in contentious and regulatory matters, prepare submissions and correspondences to regulators and counterparties.
- Handle contentious and regulatory matters, co-ordinate with external counsel in respect of same, ensure high quality of service and good control of costs;
- Advise management in relation to legal issues and practices, in particular, effective management and mitigation of litigation/ claims/ enforcement risks;
- Ensure effective management reporting for the legal function;
- Handle communication with Head Office relating to contentious and regulatory legal work.
- Handle ad hoc internal projects and take up other works and responsibilities as assigned (e.g. training, procedures / precedent / checklist development etc.).
- Assist front office with contentious clients disputes i.e. breach of contract, payments, client complaints and so on.
- Occasionally assist HR and senior management with staff employment issues/ disputes.
Requirements:
- Hong Kong qualified lawyer (5 years ideally minimum)
- 7-9 years relevant experience
- Litigation and dispute resolution related experience necessary
- Regulatory enforcement related experience preferred
- Financial services litigation and dispute resolution, employment, insolvency, insurance and regulatory contentious experience will be viewed favorably
- Strong command of both written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin preferred
Interested in this and other roles? Please send an updated resume in English to cv[@]harbridgepartners[dot]com
Or contact +852 2523 9955 – and ask for Terry Au Edward Chen, Richard Liu, Cora Pang
Harbridge Partners Limited
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