Department: White Collar Crime & Sanctions (WCC & Sanctions)
Location: London
Role: Junior Associate (Sanctions)
The Team
Our WCC & Sanctions team specialises in providing expert legal and strategic advice in financial crime, white-collar crime, sanctions, compliance and fraud matters. They focus on handling complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations and crises, working with a diverse range of clients, to advise on all aspects of white-collar crime and sanctions, to provide practical, commercial solutions to complex legal issues particularly in cross-border contexts. On the sanctions side of the practice clients include insurers and financial institutions, multinational corporations, …
The Role
This role offers the successful candidate a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team within an expanding sector. As part of Clyde & Co’s WCC & Sanctions practice, our sanctions lawyers play a pivotal role in helping multinational clients navigate the increasingly complex and evolving landscape of global sanctions regimes. You will work closely with clients across a range of industry sectors—including insurance and financial services, shipping, commodities, and offshore / onshore energy. Your work will involve advising on regulatory exposure and risk management, the commercial implications of sanctions risk, litigation and disputes arising out of sanctions exposure and on front end sanctions compliance. Leveraging Clyde & Co’s deep sector knowledge you will often work alongside sanctions specialist in other jurisdictions to provide strategic, multidisciplinary advice tailored to the operational realities of businesses operating in high-risk and emerging markets.
This position requires a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to advising on sanctions-related matters, including risk assessments, internal investigations, licensing applications, voluntary disclosure, engagement with regulators and management of associated litigation risk. You will be part of a collaborative team recognised for its ability to deliver commercially focused, technically sound guidance in a rapidly shifting global environment.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Previous experience working within a fee earning environment.
- Ability to apply law and guidance to business requirements and challenges of international client base.
- Strong drafting skills and academic background.
- A minimum of 5 PQE with previous experience working specifically within white collar crime and financial crime. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide, and all suitable candidates will be considered.
- The Solicitors Act 1974 requires practicing solicitors to have a practising certificate.
- Must be a qualified solicitor. Successful completion of a Training Contract (or equivalent) and relevant education (Legal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Law (if non-Law graduate).
- All solicitors and registered European lawyers in legal practice or employment in England & Wales must comply with the requirements of the Solicitors Regulation Authority's continuing professional development scheme (CPD Scheme).
- The ideal candidate will display excellent legal ability and initiative, strong technical skills as well as confidence in managing and prioritising a full and varied workload. They will be a strong communicator with good attention to detail.
- The ideal candidate will be proactive and have a good teamwork ethic, with a willingness to assume responsibility.
When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.
Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
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