Legal Counsel Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations (LREI)

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further.

Global Legal plays an important role in protecting HSBC’s reputation, helping to safeguard the organisation by providing robust and comprehensive advice on legal issues and risks. Our lawyers advise senior management and the Global Businesses and Functions. They offer a range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all the countries and territories in which HSBC operates.

We are currently seeking an individual to join the Legal UK and EU Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations (LREI) team in the role of Legal Counsel. The Legal Counsel provides expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that the legal and reputational risks faced by the area of coverage are identified, reported and mitigated. 

You will be part of a team that provides litigation, regulatory enforcement and investigations-related advice, guidance, and support to the HSBC Group in the UK (in particular, the retail bank) and EU. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership, expert legal advice, and manage your own portfolio of matters.

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role, you will: 

• Manage a docket of litigation matters, as well as UK and EU-based and cross-border regulatory enforcement matters and legally privileged investigations, aiming to achieve the best possible outcomes for the Bank in a cost-effective manner
• Provide advice to the business and legal stakeholders on BAU litigation matters such as court orders, pre-action claims, FOS complaints which require litigation input, strategic projects which give rise to litigation risk
• Provide legal and strategic advice to HSBC management regarding contentious matters that present legal and reputational risk to the Bank
• Undertake root cause analyses and "lessons learned" to minimize and prevent recurrence of non-financial risks
• Ensure that relevant litigation and regulatory enforcement matters are properly accounted for and disclosed and evaluate and respond to changes in applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements: 

• Qualified Lawyer, with PQE handling a mix of civil litigation and regulatory enforcement / investigation matters.
• Experience of working with financial services clients an advantage – although a keen interest in the industry and curiosity to learn more about the multijurisdictional and regulatory environment is required
• Ability to prioritise, often flexibly against the backdrop of changing facts and stakeholder demands
• Very strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong lateral thinking/problem solving ability with forward-leaning proactive approach
• Ability to manage, partner with, and challenge external counsel, particularly in relation to cost management.

The role location will be Birmingham and will be on a Hybrid working contract

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500