Senior Legal Counsel [M&A]

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Senior Legal Counsel [M&A]

Department: Business Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

Senior Legal Counsel [M&A]

London

Hybrid, minimum two days in office

Permanent, full-time

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd's, Europe and North America.

Our M&A/Business Development team are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to manage the legal workstream for transactions globally across the group. Working closely with external legal partners to execute transactions, you will maintain a focus on identifying and mitigating legal risk pre and post execution.

Our global M&A team have responsibility for delivering transactions while crystalising value and mitigating risk. Acting as the team's legal counsel, this is a unique opportunity for a transaction-focused lawyer to make a real impact and take ownership in a fast-growing company.

Responsibilities
• Supporting the M&A team by giving accurate and timely legal advice, resolving issues and efficiently converting potential transactions to completed transactions.
• Delivering legal workstream from triage to execution and completion, including reviewing NDAs and, in conjunction with external support, agreements to execute a range of legacy transaction structures.
• Assisting with papers for internal and external approvals.
• Leading the development of an evolving M&A legal strategy, including relationship management and engagement with external law firms and process improvements in transaction delivery.
• Providing ad hoc legal advice as required, including evaluating and mitigating insurance, legal and regulatory risk in transactions.

Candidate requirements
• Right to work in this location
• Minimum of 5 years' PQE experience as a solicitor.
• Reinsurance industry experience is preferred, as is London or Bermuda market experience.
• Proven track record of delivering transactions.
• Great influencing skills, with the ability to negotiate with a wide range of legal and non-legal stakeholders, able to develop and maintain positive relationships across the business.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability and flexibility to work with cross functional teams across multiple geographies.
• Great planning and organisational skills, able to manage own time alongside a diverse portfolio of transactions and constantly prioritise deliverables.
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.

As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

Why join us?

At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.

To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.

We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.

Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (GBP 20 per month) (from Day 1)
• a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• life assurance (from Day 1)
• income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme