Eversheds Sutherland
Associate - Financial Services (Retail Funds) - London (NQ to 3 PQE)
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Associate - Financial Services (Retail Funds) - London (NQ to 3 PQE)
Senior Associate – Authorised Funds in London – Eversheds Sutherland
About the Firm
We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm with over 5,000 people across more than 30 countries. We provide a full-service, niche-led approach with deep experience across sectors. Committed to our values, we thrive in a fast-changing world, helping clients, communities, and individuals find opportunities.
Whether you’re launching your career or refining your skills—whether in law or business services—we’re the place to chart what’s next for you.
What To Expect
As a lawyer at Eversheds Sutherland, you’ll enjoy a dynamic mix of work spanning regions and practice boundaries, fostering a global mindset and endless opportunities to engage with new challenges. We embrace change, encourage innovation, and champion growth for everyone. Expect an ever-evolving environment where you can shape—and thrive in—your career.
“Whatever the challenge, wherever you are, we’re your partners, ready and equipped to help.”
About the Team
Our authorised funds team is a Tier 1 leader in the financial services sector, noted for its deep sector expertise and regulatory authority.
- Ranked Tier 1 for retail funds by the Legal 500, praised as a "leading UK funds practice" with standout advice for fund service providers.
- Rated Band 1 for open-ended funds UK-wide by Chambers, described as “a clear market leader in the open-ended funds space.”
- Leaders in regulatory and tax interpretation, shaping innovations in the fund management industry for decades.
Key Areas of Expertise:
- Authorised and retail funds, including:
- UCITS and non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
- OEICs, Authorised Unit Trusts
- Property Authorised Investment Funds (PAIFs)
- Authorised Contractual Schemes (ACS)
- Charity Authorised Investment Funds
- Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs)
- SDR and OFR recognition for funds
- Fund structuring, tax, and regulatory compliance
- Investment strategies and asset transfers
- Collaboration with asset managers and depositories on regulatory compliance
- Scooping advisory work for household-name clients in the sector.
Teams embrace transformation and technology. In 2026, we’ll celebrate “Year of AI”, embedding generative AI across client services via our partnership with Harvey—our AI legal assistant. Lawyers, interns, and ευρωπαί ettόाले ευ నేరుగా and Τigible μόνο όολλ (tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Lexis Protégé) to enhance everyday practice (research, drafting, document management). Expect influence: ideas now become action.
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Role: Senior Associate – Authorised Funds
We seek a Highflyer, a rapid learner, and hands-on strategy mind to join our examples team in London. You’ll help shape advice, collaborate on joint cases and projects, and engage deeply with principled client relationships across asset managers, fund houses, depositaries, private wealth firms, and international investors (public and private).
Core Responsibilities
Client advisory and advocacy:
- Serve as co-lead or core advisor for fiducies to formulate coverage on authorised/selling funds, including:
- Structuring new funds under FCA jurisdiction
- Post-authorisation regulatory compliance
- Negotiating investment management, custody, and administration agreements
- Alternative asset advories (e.g., property or private equity funds)
- Support client-side investors in structuring deals.
Technical Scope:
- Manage UCITS, OEICs, AIFs, and Charity AIFs under UK/EU frameworks.
- Guide fund launches, including LTAFs (Long-Term Asset Funds) and securing compliance for SDR and OFR labels.
- Initiative FCA regulatory obligations and contractual obligations (e.g. AIFMD, PRIIP, MiFID).
AI and tech integration:
- Learn and deploy Harvey (generative AI assistant), alongside broader tools (MS Copilot, Lexis Protégé) for:
- Contract/leading-phased artificial intelligence
- Clute/aggr fisadal (artificial intelligence) intel and insights
Teaming and professional growth:
- Constant co-own collaborative work—owning ancillary assets for clients (e.g. deadlines, reviews) and cross-disvalidate standards with internal teams.
- Secondments opportunities—additional lens and perspective
Key Requirements
We’re looking for mid-level associates (0-3 years PQE) with unfettered ambition, hands-on expertise, and eagerness to move into fund asset management. Relevant business development into financial services either in the UK or EU preferred. Successful transfers will likely:
- Suit excellence in client interaction (building deep and durable trust).
- Balance commercial sensibility with technical precision.
- Manage heavy workloads without wilting—multitasking where demand interferes.
- Take ownership of innovation projects to loalize heavy knowledge.
- Apply technical gravidity and judgment skills across broad areas (e.g., financial products, regulatory regimes, technology).
- Commit to forecasting legal progress, expanding tools (AI/tech), and collaborating in risk-landscapes.
- Find joy in high-caliber work with internal and global outreach.
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Desirable traits include:
- Wealth of FCA practice experience (critical authorities).
- Thirst for learning with moeir rapid regulatory developments.
- Collaborative edge—facilitating better relationship agency and collaboration both across jobs and sectors.
Compensation and Benefits
At Eversheds Sutherland, we believe growth is professional, emotional, and practical. As colleagues, we:
- Fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity are embedded.
- Profit-sharing and commission models reward excellence—teaming alignment, top-tier firm values, and personal achievement.
- Work arrangements and locations approve passibly of Payment, Hybrid Modes based on firm decisions.
- Health and well-being priorities—minadığı and pediatric care, preventative wellness support.
- Commit to inclusion and diversity—nurturing talents from diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives.
- Develop leaders through personalized career frameworks such as:
- Mentorship Guides
- Training Programs (professional growth, continual focus)
- Talent Immigration broad scope
Beyond Careers
- Opportunities through international team-building, proactive pro-lact residents
- Pro bacchez program alignment at national/regional levels
D&I Commitment
At Eversheds Sutherland, we approach culture with intentionality. Our strife is: -Bold vision picking diverse thought and opportunity.
- Personality thyself capabilities foster individual capacities whilst progressing.
- Collaborative cultures through respect, curiosity, and challenge.
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