Associate Director/Senior Legal Counsel

About us Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment? We're looking for an enthusiastic individual, with fantastic interpersonal skills, to join our friendly and professional Governance Services team in Cayman. This role will provide essential support to the MGS Cayman business, in relation to commercial and legal matters. The role will support the development of policies and procedures and internal controls relating to our service offering, informed by legal and regulatory requirements. Our in-house legal and governance function provides first class legal advice and governancesupport to the 25+ companies in the MourantGS group and the directors and senior managementof those companies. The workload is diverse and covers all our locations. If you would like to join an ambitious and forward thinking firm whose inclusive culture and values recognise that its people are fundamental to its success, we would love to hear from you. Your duties and responsibilities to include: Your role will be split across two key areas. As Associate Director, you will work closely with senior management on day-to-day commercialmatters pertaining to the operations of the MGS Cayman business including, but not limited to: • Assisting management and the global operations team in the development of policies and procedures and enhancing the internal controls framework. • Horizon scanning to ensure the business is kept abreast of legal, regulatory and commercial developments relevant to its operations, best practice and the delivery of client solutions. • Supporting colleagues and risk & compliance in their dealings with our regulators and stakeholders, ensuring adherence to internal policies and a gold standard approach to good governance. • Acting as a liaison between the MGS Cayman business and its affiliated law firm to ensure effective communication and knowledge sharing between the two business to safeguard against risk and to bolster the client service proposition. As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will have a key role in supporting the ongoing development of astrong compliance culture. You will embed and maintain best practice in legal, reputational andoperational risk management in MourantGS. It is anticipated that you will spend approximately50% of your time working on matters as Senior Legal Counsel. MourantGS Legal may request yoursupport on the areas set out below. It is envisaged that such support will be limited to Cayman lawmatters to begin with but may expand to Global matters in time with your agreement: • Draft, review and negotiate contracts including engagement letters, NDAs and other third party contracts. • Proactively and continually maintain our existing global terms of business, supplementary product terms, jurisdiction terms and data processing terms. • Draft and maintain various intra-group agreements including outsourcing agreements, management charge letters and service agreements. Co-ordinate stakeholder input for all such agreements. Analyse any gaps in intra-group arrangements and draft the form of contract needed to fill such gaps. • Identify, analyse and propose mitigation for legal, reputational and operational risks arising from MourantGS client mandates. • Advise on a wide range of data protection issues. • Advise on sanctions issues. • Advise on conflicts of interest and related mitigation measures. • Advise on employment law queries including compliance with restrictive covenants for joiners/leavers. • Assist client facing teams with responses to client queries in areas such as modern slavery and insurance. • Advise on obligations arising under applicable codes of practice and other codes and guidance notes published by regulators. • Advise on how to exit client mandates safely from a legal perspective including following statutory processes where required. • Assist with a project to automate our engagement letters across all locations to ensure global consistency and best practice. • Assist with a