Senior Knowledge Lawyer: Banking and Finance

Practice Group / Department:

We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. At Norton Rose Fulbright, our strategy and our culture are closely entwined. We know that our expansion will mean little unless it is underpinned by truly global collaboration and we understand that pioneering work only takes place when our people have room to move and think beyond boundaries. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. 

The Team

Knowledge team:
The Knowledge function at Norton Rose Fulbright is highly regarded and plays a critical role in ensuring that every client benefits from the collective knowledge and experience of the whole organisation. The firm is committed to making the contribution and sharing of knowledge a core part of the firm's culture and views how we use our knowledge as key to business growth and client care.

Norton Rose Fulbright has a team of knowledge professionals dedicated to the standards, sharing and systems that will help us achieve this goal across the whole organisation. This includes knowledge lawyers, knowledge managers, library and information experts and systems specialists. Knowledge at Norton Rose Fulbright is centered on five key pillars – Campaigns, Precedents, Advisory, Training and Digital and Innovation. The Senior Knowledge Lawyer position reports into a partner in our Singapore Banking team and the Regional Head of Knowledge.

Singapore Banking team:
The role would involve supporting our Banking and Finance teams in Singapore as well as providing some support to the Asia region more broadly.

As one of the largest law firms in Singapore, we are recognized for our strengths in banking and finance, dispute resolution, international arbitration and corporate, M&A and securities across a range of industries, including aviation, shipping, energy, financial services, technology, infrastructure and commodities.

We provide international law advice, and through our Formal Law Alliance with Ascendant Legal, we give clients direct access to Singapore law advice, particularly in the areas of corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration; bankruptcy; and regulation and investigations.

In addition to our Singapore presence, we are active across Asia, advising leading global and regional corporations on transactions in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The Role
We are recruiting a Senior Knowledge Lawyer to support the Banking and Finance teams in Singapore.

The role would involve:

• Drafting material for external or internal publications and identifying topics of interest and likely candidates for articles
• Carrying out analysis of latest developments in Banking and Finance and ensuring dissemination of knowledge, internally and externally
• Providing knowledge support to business development initiatives, including supporting client campaigns and initiatives
• Advising lawyers and discussing the legal issues which they face in their transactions and matters (including structuring advice), and providing assistance to lawyers in their research
• Maintaining existing precedents and drafting new precedents, especially APLMA and security documents
• Maintaining existing practice notes, drafting new practice notes and assisting in their drafting
• Planning, organising, preparing and delivering legal and industry focused training to trainees, fee earners and clients.
• Supporting strategy and business group meetings and taking an active role in supporting the activities of those groups
• Promoting the use of and keeping up to date systems for knowledge collection and dissemination (research notes, transactional documents / bibles, training material etc.)
• Supporting the delivery of the central Knowledge strategy, including relevant departmental and pillar strategies
• Managing and implementing the relevant team Knowledge Plan(s) and the Knowledge Investment Hours policy

Skills and Experience Required

• Qualified lawyer with significant legal experience in Banking and Finance (we are open to candidates from different areas of expertise within Banking and Finance)
• Qualification in England & Wales and/or Singapore preferred
• Experience in drafting in plain language and in English
• Experience in designing and delivering successful, interesting and innovative training programmes, targeted at the audience.
• Ability to work with a variety of personalities across all levels of the organisation
• Experience in or interest in the collation, storage and delivery of knowledge
• Project management experience and demonstrated creativity in problem solving
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent legal research skills

Competencies

• Engages in business development, including supporting client relationships and client facing initiatives
• Exceptional organisational skills with an ability to demonstrate initiative and flexibility in adapting to changing priorities
• Identifies opportunities to develop thought-leadership and insightful training materials
• Strong client focus and demonstrated commitment to outstanding service delivery
• Strong IT skills and familiarity with document management software
• Ability to exercise commercial judgement, high level of confidentiality and diplomacy at all times
• Ability to work under pressure, both autonomously and as a team member
• Demonstrates a high level of initiative, problem solving and decision-making and, where required, tenacity.

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. 
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people's health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.