# Legal Counsel, Regulatory

**Company**: The London Metal Exchange (LME)
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role is a rare opportunity for an ambitious lawyer to work as a regulatory legal counsel for The London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s leading industrial metals marketplace which sets global reference prices.

You will join the LME’s regulatory (legal) team as an AVP, working alongside the team manager and ultimately the General Counsel, to deliver robust and practical legal advice across the whole organisation.

**Responsibilities**

- Provide regulatory advice, both independently and as part of a team, in relation to the LME’s products and services.

- Work collaboratively with different businesses across the LME to deliver practical, clear and sound legal advice.

- Advise on key regulatory change programmes impacting the commodity derivatives regulatory framework.

- Research and analyse specific legal points on a broad variety of regulatory, public law and LME Rules issues.

- Proactive monitor legal and regulatory developments, assess their impact on the LME, and draft responses to public consultations.

- Support the development of new products/projects/initiatives, including defining the legal requirements and advising the business with potential legal risks.

- Responding to queries from members of the LME on the LME rules and other matters.

- Managing external counsel with a view to obtaining optimal service whilst controlling costs.

**Academic and Professional Qualifications Required**

- A solicitor admitted in England & Wales or holding a Scottish or foreign jurisdiction equivalent.

- The legal counsel is likely to have 1 to 5 years of post-qualification experience.

- The ideal candidate will have worked for a city law firm in the UK or a reputable law firm in a foreign jurisdiction and/or in-house at a financial services firm.

**Required Knowledge**

- Basic knowledge of UK financial services law.

- Experience of legal research, analysis and problem solving.

- Strong drafting and communication skills.

- A commercial mindset – capable of bringing sound judgment and a reasoned approach to legal risk.

**Desirable Knowledge**

- Understanding of the commercial, legal and regulatory environment in which the LME Group operates.

- An understanding of financial markets, and in particular, commodities trading.

- Experience with financial services regulations such as UK MIFID/MIFIR, FSMA and UK BMR.

**Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role**

- Agile mind-set and openness to build and develop new subject matter expertise.

- Ability to learn quickly.

- Excellent attention to detail.

- Good judgement.

- Excellent interpersonal skills and team player.

- Excellent communication skills at all levels of seniority.

## Skills

### Required
- UK financial services law
- regulatory law
- commodity derivatives
- public law
- LME Rules
- legal research
- analysis
- problem solving
- drafting
- communication

### Nice to have
- financial markets
- commodities trading
- UK MIFID/MIFIR
- FSMA
- UK BMR
- contract law

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