Senior Associate

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Corporate Team 1 Leadership - LuxembourgJob Description We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion. Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people's health and overall wellbeing.

Senior Associate, Investment Funds

The team

The Norton Rose Fulbright Luxembourg office, which has been set up in June 2017, consists of a dynamic and enthusiastic team working closely with our numerous offices, more than 50 offices globally, and offers employees and associates the opportunity to play an integral part in consolidating the office's and presence within the Luxembourg market.

Our team is made up of experienced and multilingual lawyers with extensive knowledge of the Luxembourg legal and regulatory environment and covers the firm's core practices, among which investment funds, real estate, banking and finance, mainstream corporate, M&A, employment and litigation, commercial and cross-border tax planning. Availability, quality and responsiveness are the hallmarks of our team.

The Role

An opportunity has arisen for a full-time Senior Associate position within our Investment Funds Practice in Luxembourg.

The successful candidate will take an active role in providing tailor-made legal advice to our clients on a wide range of Funds aspects and will:

• Have the ability to work as part of a team but also be a proactive self-starter
• Be the 'go to' person in which others seek support in analyzing problems and identifying innovative solutions
• Propose strategies to resolve the most complex elements of matters, often directly to clients
• Challenge and critique the drafts of others so they can deliver an effective and efficient document
• Take on a supervisory role in most client matters he/she handles
• Communicate effectively with others both verbally and in writing
• Manage projects to plan, at the price expected by the client and the profit intended
• Create added value with each piece of work
• Use our strategic priorities, eg, Enterprise Clients, industry sector campaigns, to focus business plans and development
• Make time for effective management of others and act as coach to members of the team
• Be patient with others
• Ensure others comply with Best Practice

Skills and Experience Required

• University law degree (first state exam in Germany, Master 2 from Belgium, Luxembourg or France), ideally completed by a post-graduate degree in business law, business administration or finance (business school, LLM, MBA or alike);
• Attorney registered with the Luxembourg bar or able to exercise under foreign home title;
• 5 to 7 years of working experience within a leading law firm preferably in Luxembourg;
• Significant experience mainly of the structuring, launch, placement and operation of closed-ended investment companies/funds as well as private companies/funds – negotiation of such structures will be considered as an additional asset;
• Additional experience of the structuring, launch, placement and operation of retail/UCITS funds, as well as experience of the structuring, launch and operation of AIFM and other management or service companies in the funds sector; and
• Fluent in English and French, German being an asset.

If you would like to apply or ask any specific questions beforehand, please contact Hanane Gaouir at

At Norton Rose Fulbright we value difference and promote a culture of respect for each individual. We encourage workforce diversity in all aspects and at all levels and in doing so create an environment where everyone can realise their full potential and career ambitions on the basis of merit and skill.

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We want to support your application as best we can. For that reason, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS). This means that applicants with a disability need only meet the minimum qualifying criteria for a role to qualify for an interview under the scheme.

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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice. We provide the world's pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers based in over 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. 

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. 

Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people's health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.

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