Legal Counsel (80-100% working degree)

About the Company

Swiss Re Group is a global leader in the insurance industry with more than 150 years of history. We work in a friendly and professional environment of trust and teamwork. We are an inclusive organisation of diverse talents. Collaborating across the globe, we apply our unique perspectives and know-how to make the world more resilient. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. https://www.swissre.com/about-us/diversity-inclusion-in-Swiss-Re.html 

About the Role

Would you like to join one of the largest reinsurance groups in the world?  Are you interested in topics like capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS)?  Then we might have the right opportunity for you!  In your role you will:

• Provide legal advice and transactional support in relation to the capital markets and investment fund management activities of the ILS business teams within the Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of Swiss Re.  These activities include the provision of structuring and placement services to clients looking to utilize capital markets to transfer risk in the form of catastrophe bonds and ILS products, and the structuring and placement of funds and fund interests in the ILS asset class.  Legal support will span across drafting, negotiation and execution of specific transactions, to advising on placement of transactions and formation of investment funds.
• Provide additional legal support to colleagues working on proprietary investment activities across a range of asset classes, including derivatives, direct lending, real estate, private equity, fixed income and publicly traded securities.
• Analyze and advise on legal and regulatory risks as they apply to the ACP business activities, with a focus on capital markets and investment firm/broker-dealer laws and regulation
• Assist with corporate governance of legal entities under the ACP umbrella.
• Facilitate coordination and escalation of legal and regulatory issues among legal entity, ACP business team, CCGF Legal, including in particular Lead ACP Legal, the wider legal & compliance division, risk management and other colleagues across Swiss Re's office hubs around the world
• Monitor legal and regulatory trends affecting capital markets and investment firms/broker-dealers, advising collaboratively with Compliance colleagues in relation to preparation of regulatory reports, responses to inquiries and other regulatory matters
• Foster and maintain positive working relationships with clients, colleagues and outside law firms
• Provide legal support for new product development in the ILS and alternative risk transfer areas
• Support internal group projects and strategic initiatives
• Conduct and/or arrange internal presentations and trainings on legal topics

About the Team 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a global team that provides legal support to Swiss Re's Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division.  Swiss Re has been a leader in Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) since the market's inception in 1997, committed to the development of a market for liquid, transparent and tradable insurance-linked risk products, and leveraging our reinsurance and capital markets experience.

ACP combines the resources and capabilities of the Swiss Re Capital Markets ILS team, our retrocession team, and our investment management teams into a unified center of expertise that seamlessly offers our partners and Swiss Re itself, comprehensive alternative capital solutions tailored to their unique objectives. Through its broker-dealer subsidiaries, the Swiss Re Capital Markets ILS team provides structuring and placement services to clients looking to utilize the capital markets to transfer their risk in the form of catastrophe bonds and related products. Our clients, including (re)insurers, governments, corporations, and Swiss Re itself are provided with expertise in both the property & casualty and life & health risk markets, as well as emerging risk pools such as cyber. We work with investors who are interested in participating directly in the cat bond market, as well as providing secondary market trading, weekly and monthly indicative pricing and performance indices as part of our commitment to the market. 

About you

An ideal candidate can identify and report legal risks, provide professional advice, expertise and guidance, and apply sound judgement beyond the dimensions of laws and regulations. You have effective organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills to handle multiple requests and deadlines and understand and operate successfully in a complex matrixed corporate environment.

Qualification and Experience: 

•    A law degree and English or New York qualifications, with a minimum of four years' experience, in capital markets and/or related transactions or regulation, with a law firm or international financial institution
•    Experience and understanding of securities law and regulation in cross-border scenarios; and ideally an understanding of re/insurance business. Experience in derivatives and/or asset management is a plus.
•    Demonstrable expertise in managing legal aspects that affect complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions, including transactional experience in negotiating, structuring and executing complex transactions
•    Understanding of corporate, regulatory, and compliance landscape and their impact on ACP and Swiss Re Group
•    Understanding of the role of the legal & compliance team as control and challenge function and participation in risk management
•    Ability to identify relevant issues, taking initiative in achieving resolution, using a collaborative approach, and understanding of technical and compliance matters that require escalation or greater oversight
•    Excellent drafting, negotiation, influencing and legal project management skills
•    Corporate governance experience is a plus

If you are a committed, collaborative, enthusiastic colleague who is receptive to constructive challenge, willing to learn and self-reflect, we will be happy to get to know you. #LI-Hybrid