Tasks / Competencies / Responsibility
Position: Fund Lawyer
Level: Senior
Workload: 100%
Place of work: Zurich
Line manager: Dr. Alexander Lindemann
Job objective:
✓ Acquisition of mandates in the field of law
✓ Comprehensive legal advice to national and international clients on all aspects of investment fund law, in particular:
- Structuring of investment funds
- Capital raising for investment funds
- Investment of the capital of investment funds
- Regulation of investment funds
- Corporate governance of investment funds
✓ Leading complex structuring projects
✓ Conducting client meetings in traditional mixed funds and customised separate accounts
✓ Drafting and/or reviewing documents relating to a variety of fund structures and assuming responsibility for selected funds and separate accounts, including their maintenance and administration
✓ Drafting, reviewing and negotiating fund documentation, including partnership agreements, investment agreements and management contracts
✓ Assisting clients in complying with national and international laws and regulations
✓ Representing clients in courts and arbitration tribunals
✓ Involvement 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 focus is on
✓ Acquisition of mandates in the legal field
✓ Cross-selling
✓ Billable hours
✓ Client satisfaction
✓ Marketing activities (newsletters, videos, events)
Requirements
Gender: M / F
Age: 30-50
Professional competence
Education:
✓ Swiss bar exam and first-class qualification
✓ Additional studies in business law or financial 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
✓ Communication 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!