The Role

Department: Insurance, Financial & Professional Disputes - Accountants PI

Location: London

Role: Senior Associate

The Team

Our Accountants' Litigation and Regulatory team, which sits within our wider Professional and Financial Disputes team, is made up of four partners leading a team of lawyers who specialise in acting for accountants, auditors, tax advisors, insolvency practitioners and other finance professionals and their insurers. We advise on the defence of civil claims, regulatory investigations and disciplinary proceedings, and on the management of risk, compliance and regulatory exposures.

With 30 years of experience advising in this field, our team is able to draw upon a wealth of industry knowledge to provide clients with sound and skilled advice.

The Role

This role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to be part of our growing accountants professional indemnity team. You will have the opportunity to work for a range of clients including accountancy practices of all sizes, from the 'Big Four' and their global networks to smaller firms who are expanding and keen to grow their market share, individual practitioners and their insurers.

Essential Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate will have strong litigation experience with a background in professional liability. Some previous experience acting for accountancy and audit firms would be preferable but is not essential.
• Previous regulatory experience would also be an advantage but is not essential.
• The candidate should have excellent technical legal skills including drafting and strategy management, as well as experience of managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload.
• We are ideally looking for a candidate who has a minimum of 6 PQE. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide and all suitable candidates will be considered.

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The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Role Competency Requirements

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

Technical Excellence

Technical legal expertise: the knowledge of the law and ability to apply it

Research: the ability to conduct research effectively and apply it commercially

Managing legal processes: the ability to ensure all legal processes are followed efficiently and effectively

People and Team

Guiding individual performance and development: develops the skills of self and others

Teamwork and collaboration: working cooperatively and effectively with others

Leadership: creating high performing teams

Client Relationships and Business Development

Building business relationships: establishing, maintaining and using relationships to create and develop business opportunities

Commercial thinking: understanding the commercial drivers

Cross-selling and business development

Finance and Practice Management

Finance management and understanding of the business

Project management: ensuring projects are delivered

Knowledge sharing

Personal Effectiveness

Communication

Clarity of thinking

Personal contribution

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.