Legal Counsel

To support our business as efficiently and reliably in its multiple legal and regulatory aspects and to help our growing team of 42 professionals, Deminor is looking for a talented Legal Counsel who will work with and under the supervision of our Group General Counsel & DPO with the delivery of the group legal framework across our 8 office locations.

Working closely with our Group General Counsel, you will be responsible for ensuring assistance to colleagues for the services offered to our clients and for ensuring the efficiency and fluidity of our various compliance policies and procedures. You will be assisting in the drafting and reviewing of commercial and funding contracts with our clients and partners and you will provide general legal and regulatory support as in-house counsel to the company.

Legal missions:

- Drafting and reviewing contracts concluded with commercial and operational partners and clients in an international context (e.g., litigation funding agreement), from the first draft until its execution.
- Drafting and updating general terms and conditions and other template agreements (e.g., NDA). Keeping registers for tracking signed agreements.
- Verifying legal standing of clients in funded cases, particularly in investment recovery and anti-trust cases. Assisting in obtaining public corporate and financial information, legalization assistance.
- Providing legal assistance to the team on an ad hoc basis (e.g. answering questions related to legal or regulatory matters).
- Corporate housekeeping of Deminor Group entities, UBO register updates
- Acting as the point of contact for relevant third parties such as: lawyers, notaries, bailiffs

Compliance:

- Acting as a point of contact for team members for KYC searches, ensuring processes are compliant with our group AML policy, providing updates of group policies and corporate profiles of clients, responding to KYC requests and training of team members.
- Ensuring the Company’s adherence to the GDPR framework which includes monitoring of data processing, security measures, data retention, intra-group agreements, policy updates and training of team members.
- Carrying out research of country-specific regulations relating to litigation/arbitration and third-party funding to protect our business interest. Where necessary, assisting in implementing new compliance rules.
- Being responsible for the Conflict checks process and register

**About you**:
We believe that to be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following attributes and skills:

- Experience in common and/or civil law environment (ideally both), with international exposure.
- Excellent command of English is essential. Additional languages are a plus.
- Rigorous mindset, efficiency in work organization and delivery.
- Capacity to work under tight deadlines.
- Intellectual curiosity and eager to learn.
- Ability to form and defend an opinion.
- Team player.
- Result-driven and an eye for detail.
- Excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills.

**What we offer**

Deminor provides a professional, friendly and open work environment where we appreciate the individual personalities and diverse backgrounds of each team member. We foster a culture of inclusion and tolerance. With demand for our services growing and the funding landscape developing rapidly, truly no day looks like the other. We invite everyone to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and share creative thoughts and ideas.

We offer competitive remuneration, consisting of fixed and variable elements, based on individual and firm performance. Flexible home office opportunities are available.

**About Deminor**

Deminor’s core business is to support and fund claims pursued by investors, corporates, private individuals and public authorities with the aim of maximizing the value of such claims. For 30 years, Deminor has been advising some of the world’s largest institutional investors on investor protection matters, including recovery of investment losses through litigation in Europe and worldwide. Deminor is a pioneer in this field and has been a leading force in numerous high-profile securities actions globally, recovering billions of Euros for its clients. Deminor also funds large anti-trust actions and commercial claims through litigation and arbitration.

Deminor has funded and supported cases in 20 different jurisdictions and has offices in 9 different cities in Continental Europe, the U.K., the U.S. and Asia. Our team possesses a unique diversity of backgrounds, skill sets and languages. We assist our clients on a wide range of topics in connection with their cases, we understand their businesses and speak their language. We have a strong set of values which determine the selection of cases we fund but also our conduct with clients and partners.