Details of the Organization

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified international markets infrastructure business —earning our clients’ trust for over 300 years. That legacy of customer-focused excellence ensures that you can rely on their expertise in capital formation, intellectual property and risk and balance sheet management. 

Details of the Job/Internship

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is hiring for the position of Legal Counsel with 2 years of experience to join their Bengaluru office. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Support the Markets business with a wide range of legal advice across all jurisdictions, becoming a subject matter authority and go-to person for all sales team enquiries.
• Supporting the senior lawyers in the Legal team with a wide range of strategic and corporate initiatives and regulatory analysis, working closely with SMEs from the broader Legal & Compliance team.
• Drafting and negotiating agreements with customers, vendors, partners and other third parties, including data licenses, software and intellectual property licenses, intercompany and outsourcing agreements and other complex commercial agreements.
• Support on litigation, regulatory and trading venue disciplinary matters and complaints from market participants.
• Coordinating and working with outside counsel and handling legal services, acting as a point of escalation for legal issues. 
• Responsible for maintaining, updating and revising contract template agreements, rule books and other related documentation and supporting process enhancement and automation within the Markets Legal team.
• Implementing internal controls, policies and procedures to increase efficiencies and assure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, corporate policies, ethical standards and lead all aspects of adherence to contractual obligations.

Eligibility

• Qualified lawyer with at least 2 years’ professional experience at a reputable law firm / inhouse legal team. 
• Financial regulatory legal background desirable.
• Willingness to develop knowledge of current and developing legal issues, the regulatory environment and trends in Capital Markets and develop a good understanding of the Capital Markets business. 
• Excellent written and oral communications skills. 
• Strong contract negotiation and drafting abilities, with the ability to understand and simplify complex concepts and issues. 
• Excellent planning, organisational, analytical and decision-making skills, ability to manage projects.
• Strong skills to work both collaboratively and independently. 
• Sound administrative and time management skills, with sharp attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and capability to build strong, trusted and effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across different functions and cultures; judgement, tact and discretion when dealing with people and issues.
• Fluent in English. 

Salary/Stipend

Compensation details will be finalized during the interview process with the selected candidate.

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

State

Karnataka

City

Bengaluru

Address

Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India.

Application and Registration Details

After you apply, you will receive the next steps of the application process via email. 

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