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The firm
Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive, and entrepreneurial environment. Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do. We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff. You will quickly get to know everyone from the Senior Partner to the most junior staff. Whilst we are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people, we are equally well known for our high-profile matters, the quality of our work, and solving our clients' most complex legal issues.
Fox Williams is committed to creating a more diverse workforce which better reflects the demographics of society and the broad range of clients for whom we work. We collaborate with our recruitment agents to seek a broad talent pool for all our roles. We are passionate about working in an inclusive environment and successful candidates will be required to uphold this.
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The department
The Financial Services team is headed by Sona Ganatra (Contentious FS and Investigations lawyer).
We are a dynamic team that deal with the whole life cycle of firms in the financial services sector: from assisting founders seeking investment, product development, and advising on the application of financial services regulations, through to dealing with PRA/FCA Enforcement investigations and police/SFO investigations.
We act for a range of financial services and fintech clients including challenger and neo banks, credit unions, insurers, investment firms; technology companies; payment services and e money firms; and a wide variety of lending platforms. Examples of our clients include:
- Revolut
- Starling
- Allica Bank
- Zilch
- Yonder
- Vinted
- Zepz
The opportunity
We are looking for a 3-6 PQE associate to join the non-contentious side of our Financial Services practice, primarily assisting the Financial Services Advisory partners - Peter Finch, Miah Phillips, and Mardi MacGregor.
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The prospective candidate will have the opportunity to work with a range of financial services advisory partners who are recognised as leading experts in their field and with high profile and exciting clients, all within a supportive team that values individuality and ambition where you will be valued and supported in your career progression.
Personal attributes and skills
The successful candidate will:
- Be 3 to 6 years qualified working in private practice or in house;
- Have experience of advising payment firms, banks; insurers; funds; consumer credit firms; and/or fintechs;
- Have a good working knowledge of the FCA / PRA Handbook and of the Financial Services and Markets Act and the Regulated Activities Order;
- Be a regulatory specialist who wants to develop their regulatory knowledge and work on complex advisory regulatory matters.
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