Executive Director - Legal
About the job
- Be a qualified lawyer with 7–10 years of post-qualification experience and hold a valid practicing certificate in England and Wales or New York.
- Have experience in an in-house legal role, ideally with a bank, fund manager, or fund service provider.
- Provide legal advisory, regulatory, and documentation support to the core businesses, including fund administration, registrar and transfer agent, investor anti-money laundering services, banking, custody, trustee, regulatory reporting, registered office, and corporate secretary businesses.
- Provide legal advice and documentation support for the core business, including managing timelines and expectations, reviewing and drafting legal documents, negotiating agreements, liaising with internal stakeholders to ensure risks are understood, seeking sign-off from relevant parties, handling execution, and providing a final legal opinion as appropriate.
- Support service agreements for MUFG, including administration agreements, middle office and business process outsourcing agreements, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act agreements, regulatory reporting agreements, declarations of trust, bank account mandates and terms and conditions, and non-disclosure agreements; intragroup and outsourcing agreements; and vendor agreements.
- Respond to legal queries from operational departments, internal control and support groups, client integration and client services teams, senior management, and entity boards.
- Advise the business on day-to-day legal and regulatory matters across all key jurisdictions.
- Manage or coordinate external legal counsel, where required, to advise senior management and support all business functions.
- Support and, if necessary, manage projects and new business initiatives.
- Coordinate the ongoing maintenance and creation of precedents in response to legal, regulatory, operational, and market developments.
- Provide advice to, and/or represent Legal on, internal committees.
About the company
MUFG Investor Services provides asset servicing and operational support to investment managers, institutional investors and asset owners. Its services include fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, investor recordkeeping, custody, banking and financing for alternative and traditional investment funds. Teams support financial reporting, portfolio operations, regulatory filings and fund transactions, while technology specialists maintain the systems used to process and monitor investment data. The business also advises clients on operating models and technology improvements. Launched in 2013, MUFG Investor Services is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
George Town, Cayman Islands
Founded
2013
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What believers are saying
- Structured development: the Career Conversations Program helps employees create and own individual development plans.
- Professional support: the investment data role reimburses professional subscriptions.
- Hybrid option: the private equity fund accounting posting explicitly offers hybrid working.
What critics are saying
- Client deadlines: fund accountants deliver NAV packages under contractual service-level agreements.
- Late shift: the investment data and valuations position runs from afternoon until eleven at night.
- Broad assurance remit: security engineers combine threat modelling, penetration testing and source-code risk management.
What makes MUFG Investor Services unique
- Administration scale: the business services more than one trillion dollars in client assets.
- Group ownership: Investor Services is a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
- Integration architecture: the banking platform supports open-access integrations across custody, banking and foreign exchange.
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