Associate - Financial Services Regulatory

As we continue to grow our Financial Services Regulatory team, we have an opening for an Associate (1-4 PQE) who is looking for the opportunity to work alongside leading experts on high-quality, complex regulatory matters.

TLT is a leading adviser to the financial services industry. The firm acts for the largest UK banks and other leading firms. Amanda Hulme lead’s our financial services regulation team, placing the firm at the cutting edge of financial services regulatory advice in the UK. Amanda Hulme has been ranked in Chambers and Partners for more than 20 years, for Consumer Finance and Payments advice.

She is also ranked as one of the best in the UK in the ‘Chambers’ Client Guide of the UK Legal Profession’. The successful candidate would have the opportunity to be part of a growing and ambitious team, with excellent prospects for career advancement, in a supportive and exciting environment.  You can enjoy flexible working arrangements and can be based out of our Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham or London office.

Your Role You can expect to work for leading financial services firms on their strategically important matters. We are looking for lawyers who particularly want to specialise in payments and digital assets regulation and/or retail financial services (consumer credit, mortgages, retail banking and payments regulation).  The team already has a very strong reputation in the retail financial services and payments sectors and advises banks, building societies and specialist lenders on the complete range of regulatory matters affecting their business.  

The team also covers wider regulatory work, including wholesale regulation and financial crime.

With the support of a specialist team of Partners and Managing Associates, you will be:

Assisting clients to develop new products and services, providing end to end regulatory support, including structuring products, drafting agreements, working on comms, working through detailed systems builds;

Helping clients when things don’t go according to plan, including assessing regulatory issues and remediation strategies;

Assisting clients to implement new regulatory requirements, including BNPL, consumer credit and payments reform;

Assisting clients with general regulatory compliance, including with Consumer Duty and consumer law compliance. In addition to the technical work on matters, you will also be encouraged to:

Work closely with the Partners and take on mentoring roles for the more junior members of the team. Support with client training and speak at conferences and client events on regulatory developments.

Engage in business development activities with clients and potential clients, particularly in working alongside the partners to grow and develop the financial regulation practice.

Your Skills and Experience To be considered for our Associate role, you will need to have gained good experience so far in your career in a financial regulation. You need to be open to working on a range of different regulatory areas, but with a desire to specialise your career over time.

You may have gained your experience working in private practice, in house, through academic study, working for a regulator or in a compliance or public affairs role.

It is also essential that you have a real and genuine interest in financial regulation You will be given support to develop technically, but you also need a strong self-learning approach to your development.

You will have/be:

A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered), 1-4 PQEGained a good working knowledge of financial regulation and want to develop that knowledgeA forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to…