Financial Services Associate

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You’ll join our highly regarded Banking & Finance team, working closely with Partner Jeremy Ladyman, who leads our growing financial services regulatory and transactional practice. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Financial Services Associate to take on high‑quality, cross‑border work and play a key role in the continued growth and development of this practice area. In this role, you’ll be involved in:

• Advising on a wide range of financial services regulatory matters, including UK and EU regulatory frameworks, perimeter issues, governance, compliance, and policy interpretation.
• Supporting transactional matters where regulatory input is required, including corporate activity, product structuring, and financial promotions.
• Advising on a broad range of transactional matters including derivatives, repos, general financing arrangements, investment management and custody agreements.
• Working closely with Jeremy on complex, multi‑jurisdictional matters supporting a client base that includes high‑profile financial institutions, renewable energy leaders, fintechs, and multinational corporates.
• Managing your own workload with appropriate supervision while contributing to major matters handled by the team.
• Developing strong relationships with clients and delivering commercially focused, pragmatic advice.
• Collaborating with colleagues across Commercial, Restructuring & Insolvency, Pensions and the wider Business Services Group to support cross‑departmental mandates.

• Have 4–8 years’ PQE with experience in UK financial services regulation, ideally gained at a top‑tier, national, or strong regional firm.
• Be confident advising on regulatory frameworks, FCA perimeter issues, authorised and non‑authorised activities, and compliance requirements.
• Bring experience working on financial services‑related transactions, cross‑border matters, or client relationships involving regulated entities.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to deliver clear, practical, business‑friendly advice.
• Be organised, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with high‑profile clients.
• Enjoy building relationships and contributing to the strategic development of a growing practice.
• Be collaborative, open, and keen to work closely with colleagues across multiple departments.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays – you can buy up to 35hrs of extra holiday.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of wellbeing initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

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