Assistant General Counsel

About the role

Grade Level (for internal use): 13 About the Role: The Business: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes, helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets. The Team: Join a Best-In-Class Global Legal, Compliance, Risk & Government Affairs Team committed to delivering timely, practical and actionable advice to advance our business and safeguard our reputation, people and assets. We work with some of the world's largest asset managers, banks, and financial institutions. Our legal team sits at the heart of the business, supporting a fast-moving and technically complex operating environment. The position reports to the Associate General Counsel and Managing Director EMEA. The team provides legal support to the S&P DJI business, including: legal advice and support to internal clients; drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts and other legal documents related to licensing indices for use with investment products (including, without limitation, banks and insurance products), data licensing, joint marketing and co-development collaborations, consulting agreements; review of marketing material; legal research; management and coordination of external legal resources; and training to employees on legal issues and contracting procedures. We are looking for a commercially minded and highly organised legal counsel to join our in-house legal team. This is a broad, hands-on role covering the full spectrum of legal work arising in a regulated financial data and index business - from complex commercial and partnership contracts and intellectual property matters through to regulatory advice, corporate governance and dispute management. The successful candidate will work closely with senior stakeholders across the business and will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities

• The Assistant General Counsel will be responsible for:
• Partnering with business stakeholders to align product and commercial strategy, and drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements on matters focusing on:
• licensing indices for use with financial products (including insurance and bank hedging OTC products),
• index data subscription and distribution,
• inbound data and technology,
• custom calculation services,
• web-based services, and
• consulting relationships.
• Advising on the creation and publication of thought leadership and marketing materials, factoring in various financial regulations that impact directly or indirectly the business strategy.
• Providing regulatory interpretation and guidance to the business on UK and European financial regulations, including the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR), UCITS, MiFID II, DORA, and GDPR, and monitoring regulatory developments across these frameworks.
• Supporting interaction and engagement with relevant policy and supervisory teams, including responding to regulatory consultations, preparing submissions, and liaising with the FCA, ESMA, and other applicable regulators.
• Supporting sales and other business teams including shared services groups across the UK, Europe, and other regions globally, advising them on legal risk, and providing business-oriented legal solutions, including issues related to complex index licensing, insurance and bank

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