Senior Legal Counsel, Aviva

Private Markets Funds and Joint Ventures

Salary not provided

Offers annual performance bonus

Senior and Expert level

London

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2 days a week in office

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

Be an early applicant

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

Offers annual performance bonus

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

2 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Company mission

With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A solicitor, barrister or qualified equivalent. As a guideline we would expect at least 5 years post qualification experience but will consider those outside of this range with the right skills and experience
Strong knowledge of alternative investment and other unregulated funds in the Private Markets space (real estate, infrastructure, debt) as well as commonly used real estate investment and fund structures. Experience in both UK and Luxembourg fund structures, plus ideally Jersey
This will include understanding of common structures for acquisitions and funds flow in a tax efficient manner. Knowledge of relevant regulatory environment and market standard approaches also required
Technical expert in areas of law relevant to unauthorised fund structures and the operator of those funds, including AIFMD
Developing experience and expertise in ESG related regulatory developments applicable to funds such as the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation

What the job involves

Acting as a senior legal adviser within the Aviva Investors legal team, providing a first class legal service to the Aviva Investors Private Markets business in relation to all Private Markets funds (real estate, infrastructure, debt) and corporate real estate transactions and joint ventures, the person in this role will support a key strategic business function and act as a support and control to that business, enabling progress towards its strategic objectives
The role will support around a variety of tasks that include fund creation and structuring, strategic fund outsourcing projects and joint ventures
This is a great job for a lawyer with previous Private Markets experience to join one of Europe’s leading Private Markets platforms

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Our take

With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.

Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.

Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.

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Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Amanda Blanc

(CEO, not founder)

Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.

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