S&P Global

3 weeks ago

Assistant General Counsel

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Job Summary

Serve as a trusted legal adviser to product, innovation, and commercial teams within a global legal, compliance, risk, and government affairs organization supporting S&P Dow Jones Indices. In this hands-on role, you’ll negotiate and draft complex index licensing and commercial agreements, provide UK/EU regulatory guidance (including BMR, UCITS, MiFID II, DORA, GDPR), support governance and supervisory engagement, and help manage legal risk across multiple jurisdictions.

Location: London, Dublin

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Partner with business stakeholders and draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements across index licensing, data subscription/distribution, inbound data and technology, custom calculation services, web-based services, and consulting relationships.
•Provide regulatory interpretation and guidance to the business on UK and European financial regulations, monitoring developments across BMR, UCITS, MiFID II, DORA, and GDPR.
•Support engagement with policy and supervisory teams, including responding to regulatory consultations, preparing submissions, and liaising with the FCA, ESMA, and other regulators.
•Advise sales and other teams (including shared services groups) on legal risk and business-oriented solutions for complex index licensing and related products.
•Support corporate governance and Compliance initiatives, including board/committee support, governance frameworks, confidentiality/insider trading/compliance policies, and RFPs, due diligence, and audits.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, or equivalent European jurisdiction qualification.
•4–7 years’ post-qualification legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience in a financial services institution.
•Strong commercial contracts experience negotiating and drafting complex agreements.
•Solid understanding of UK and/or European financial services regulation (including BMR, UCITS, and MiFID II/MiFIR).
•Experience interpreting regulation and providing clear, practical guidance to business stakeholders.

Experience:4-7 yearsFinancial servicesIn-house legalIndex licensingRegulated financial dataFinancial regulation

Education:Certification / Diploma

Skills:Commercial judgmentNegotiationCommunicationAutonomyStakeholder management

Company Brief

S&P Global

Provides financial information, analytics, benchmarks, and credit ratings to markets and institutions worldwide, offering data, research, indices, and risk assessment tools across the financial services and commodities sectors.

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 1917

Website LinkedIn

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S&P Global

3 weeks ago

Assistant General Counsel

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 9 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: London, Dublin

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Partner with business stakeholders and draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements across index licensing, data subscription/distribution, inbound data and technology, custom calculation services, web-based services, and consulting relationships.
•Provide regulatory interpretation and guidance to the business on UK and European financial regulations, monitoring developments across BMR, UCITS, MiFID II, DORA, and GDPR.
•Support engagement with policy and supervisory teams, including responding to regulatory consultations, preparing submissions, and liaising with the FCA, ESMA, and other regulators.
•Advise sales and other teams (including shared services groups) on legal risk and business-oriented solutions for complex index licensing and related products.
•Support corporate governance and Compliance initiatives, including board/committee support, governance frameworks, confidentiality/insider trading/compliance policies, and RFPs, due diligence, and audits.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, or equivalent European jurisdiction qualification.
•4–7 years’ post-qualification legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience in a financial services institution.
•Strong commercial contracts experience negotiating and drafting complex agreements.
•Solid understanding of UK and/or European financial services regulation (including BMR, UCITS, and MiFID II/MiFIR).
•Experience interpreting regulation and providing clear, practical guidance to business stakeholders.

Experience:4-7 yearsFinancial servicesIn-house legalIndex licensingRegulated financial dataFinancial regulation

Education:Certification / Diploma

Skills:Commercial judgmentNegotiationCommunicationAutonomyStakeholder management

Company Brief

S&P Global

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 1917

Website LinkedIn