In-House Litigation Lawyer

6 days ago


Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China HARBRIDGE PARTNERS Full time

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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