Legal Counsel (LGAS and Group Direct Investments)

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Your role at a glance

To support the LGAS and Group Direct Investments legal team in providing first class legal and governance advice in respect of a broad range of LGAS and Group direct investment transactions.

The role holder will be part of the Group Legal team and will be responsible for providing day-to-day legal advice and transaction support to the Group and Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) businesses, to ensure that the interests are as well positioned as practicable and that there has been due compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements as well as the Group's own internal governance procedures.

What you'll be doing

• You will be providing advice on regulatory, legal and reputational matters to Group and LGRI in relation to a broad range of corporate, investment and financing transactions, ensuring that a proper account is taken of material legal risks and the Group’s position is mitigated and protected.
• You will be supporting the relevant business areas, including but not limited to the L&G Retail Fintech team and LGRI Investments division (both UK and Globally) in the structuring, negotiation, execution and management of direct investment transactions, taking responsibility for transaction documents, including term sheets and other early stage documentation and long-form documentation, with assistance from external counsel where required.
• You will be providing day-to-day support to the business in relation to general advisory matters for existing Group and LGRI direct investments, including customary support for ad hoc requests on transactions.
• You will be providing asset management support to the business, including in relation to investments suffering from financial difficulty and workouts from equity and debt perspective.
• You will be responsible for the on-going development of L&G standard form documentation.
• You will be providing governance support to Legal & General Group Plc and Group subsidiary companies with respect to Group and LGRI direct investment transactions, including ensuring legal risks are appropriately reported.
• You will be working collaboratively with the relevant internal stakeholders including company secretarial, finance/accounting, tax, treasury, risk and board support in order to ensure a joined up approach on transactions and so that the strategic and commercial objectives of LGRI and the Group are achieved.
• You will be working with the other Legal and Governance teams to ensure that there is a coherent and seamless delivery of legal and governance advice to the Group which can include travel to LGRI overseas businesses (currently Bermuda and US) and Group more generally.
• You will be managing external counsel, key stakeholders and other third parties and to ensure business costs are kept to a minimum and manage external legal advice to ensure sound and commercially useful advice is provided to the business.
• You will be co-ordinating with external counsel and internal advisory functions including the arranging of legal education and training.

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.