Tasks / Competencies / Responsibility
Position: Capital Market Lawyer
Level: Senior
Working hours: 100%
Place of work: Zurich
Line manager: Dr. Alexander Lindemann
Job objective:
✓ Acquisition of clients in the field of law
✓ Comprehensive legal advice to national and international clients on all aspects of capital market law, in particular:
- Issuance of shares, bonds and structured products
- M&A transactions in the capital market environment
- Capital market regulation
- Corporate governance
- Securitisation and asset finance
✓ Drafting and negotiating complex contracts and legal opinions
✓ Assisting clients in complying with relevant national and international laws and regulations, such as MiFID II, MAR and others
✓ Communicating with regulatory authorities
✓ Managing and coordinating legal aspects of capital market projects, including due diligence reviews and structuring complex transactions
✓ Representing clients in courts and arbitration tribunals
✓ Participating in the development of new products and services
✓ Active participation in an international team
✓ Participation in industry events and conferences
✓ Active use of AI
MbO / metrics
The target agreement is based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. The main focus is on
✓ Acquisition of mandates in the field of law
✓ Cross-selling
✓ Billable hours
✓ Client satisfaction
✓ Marketing activities (newsletters, videos, events)
Requirements
Gender: M / F
Age: 30-50
Professional expertise
Education/further training:
✓ Swiss bar exam and first-class qualification
✓ Additional studies in commercial law or capital market law
Professional experience:
✓ 5 to 15 years of relevant professional experience in a law firm, auditing firm, bank or asset management
Languages:
✓ Stylistically confident, appropriate English
✓ Stylistically confident, appropriate German
Social skills
✓ Communicative skills / negotiation skills
✓ Self-assertion and assertiveness
✓ Social intelligence / psychological sensitivity / empathy
✓ Contact skills / customer and market orientation
✓ Teamwork / willingness to cooperate
✓ Integrity
Self-competence
✓ Performance motivation / professional ambition / perseverance
✓ Resilience / stress resistance / frustration tolerance
✓ Personal responsibility / Reliability / Adherence to deadlines
✓ Analytical and integrative thinking
✓ Flexibility / Openness to new ideas
✓ Personal impact (charisma, appearance, radiance)
Leadership skills
✓ Complex problem solving / networked thinking
✓ Motivation for leadership and creativity
✓ Leadership development / coaching skills
✓ Priority setting / delegation
✓ Planning and organisation
✓ Entrepreneurial thinking
To apply, please send your CV, a cover letter and references to Dr. iur. Alexander Lindemann at [email protected] and Shynar Lindemann at [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you to our team!