Legal Counsel
Company: Fisher Investments
Location: Plano
Posted on: October 22, 2024
Job Description:
Fisher Investments is an established international asset
management firm. We are currently seeking to hire a commercially
oriented attorney interested in being a key contributor to the
firm's growth. The role will provide legal support to multiple
functions within the firm, with an opportunity to have a material
impact on the continuing development of the firm. Come join our
in-house legal team and grow your career at Fisher Investments!
-The Opportunity: -Reporting into Fisher's Legal & Compliance
group, you will gain exposure to many departments and projects
within Fisher Investments, and an opportunity to advise on many
different (and unrelated) legal areas. You will support the firm's
institutional business, its global ESG program, its outsourcing
program, and the firm's expansion efforts into new jurisdictions
and/or services. Whether it is through the negotiation of contracts
with some of the firm's largest clients and service providers, or
partnering with management in developing/adjusting policies in
response to new regulations, you will drive results across some of
Fisher's most critical areas.The Day-to-Day:
- This is senior-level professional work in which incumbents are
developing their roles, increasing their skills, assuming increased
responsibility, and working under general guidance
- Support the firm's institutional business, which includes:
- Negotiating investment management agreements
- Providing legal advice to the firm's institutional funds
team
- Advising management in the institutional business
- Review requests for proposal submissions
- Review responses to due diligence requests -
- Helping the institutional business navigate new and/or changing
regulations across multiple jurisdictions
- Be the lead legal support for the firm's global ESG program,
which includes providing advice on new/changing ESG regulations in
multiple jurisdictions
- Provide legal advice on new/changing regulations in various
jurisdictions as needed
- Provide legal support services to the firm's outsourcing
program, which includes:
- Oversee the review, negotiation and approval of service
provider agreements, dataprocessing agreements, and other addendums
and amendments to such agreements (which will include you
reviewing, negotiating and approving a portion of such
contracts)
- Providing legal advice to the firm's outsourcing program
- Help the firm's expansion efforts by assisting with the
creation of new subsidiaries, obtaining licenses/permissions for
expanded services in existing jurisdictions, and negotiating real
estate contracts
- Coordinate with outside counsel
- Train paralegals, fellow attorneys and business colleagues on
new and/or changing regulations.Your Qualifications:
- Law degree from an accredited law school, with admission to a
bar
- 4+ years of experience at an AmLaw 200 law firm, or at least 3
years of experience at an AmLaw 200 law firm coupled with 2+ years
of in-house corporate experience
- Experience negotiating contracts
- Experience providing legal advice on new and/or changing
regulations to large corporate organizationsWhy Fisher Investments:
-We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe.
We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and
development framework customized for every employee, and our Great
Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher
purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional
benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your
qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays -
- Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver
Leave, fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance
and back-up child, adult, and elder care
- $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming
benefitFISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Keywords: Fisher Investments, Fort Worth , Legal Counsel, Legal , Plano, Texas
Didn't find what you're looking for? Search again!
Loading more jobs...