Lawyer/Senior Lawyer, Sanctions and Defence
- Application Deadline: Nov. 17, 2024
- Multiple locations
- On-site
Gard’s Sanctions Consultancy Group is seeking a motivated and experienced Lawyer/Senior Lawyer who will play a vital role in safeguarding Gard’s interests and reputation by ensuring compliance with sanctions regimes in various jurisdictions. This role can be based in Norway, London, or Piraeus.
In this role, you will assist colleagues with legal advice on operational sanctions risks whilst navigating complex sanctions landscapes. Through your work you will be part of strengthening our risk profile and sanctions compliance processes. As a member of our Sanctions Team which is a key part of a larger Sanctions Consultancy Group, you will closely collaborate with colleagues based in Arendal, London, New York, Singapore, Piraeus, Tokyo, Helsinki, Oslo and Hong Kong. You will see our business from different perspectives, and will work directly with colleagues globally.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide legal advice to colleagues on sanctions-related inquiries.
- Ensure that matters are escalated and dealt with at the correct level within the organisation.
- To stay ahead of regulatory and commercial developments, and to ensure alignment with regulations and company policy.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve sanctions-related processes and procedures within the Sanctions Consultancy Group and for Gard as a whole.
- Maintain detailed documentation of sanctions-related risk assessments.
- Share and seek knowledge within the team and throughout Gard.
- Provide sanctions training across the organisation.
About you:
- Law degree, and with the ability to work with a high degree of autonomy when dealing with legal enquiries.
- Work experience from legal practice / qualification to practice law (preferred).
- 2+ years of experience working within maritime law or sanctions (preferred).
- Excellent analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, and able to balance firmness in the advice with diplomacy when communicating.
- Self-motivated and proactive approach to learning, with a team-focused mindset in knowledge sharing.
- Thriving in a collaborative environment where the work is often delivered as a result of team efforts.
- High degree of proficiency in using computer-based tools and applications.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Please send us your CV along with a cover letter.
We perform background checks on all relevant candidates through our partner EY
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About the company
For more than 100 years Gard, one of the world’s leading marine insurers, has been helping the marine industries to protect their assets and safeguard their income. Having expanded from our origins in southern Norway to a network of 13 offices across the globe, we have witnessed the impact the sea can have and have learnt a thing or two.
Despite our breadth and depth of experience and expertise, we try to learn something new every day to prepare our Members and clients for their next journey, and to find and deliver the right solutions. So, whenever the unexpected arises it is good to know that someone is ready, willing and able to assist; someone with expertise that has been refined for over a century.
It is not just what we do, but how we do it that delivers the best value in the market – matching our expertise with an unrivalled commitment to what we do. We will turn every stone to find a solution and see it carried through.
Such ability and dedication is rare, so we take great care in choosing, training and supporting our employees. The way we see it, our people are the difference between good and great.
1907Assuranceforeningen Gard established on 9 October
1939Insures 40 per cent of the Norwegian tanker fleet
1958Starts to insure vessels outside Norway
1973Moves into the offshore energy sector
1983Sets up an office in London
2000Insures more than 5,000 vessels
2004Sole ownership of Gard Marine & Energy
20072007Celebrates its centenary with nine offices and 300 employees
2015Insured tonnage is in excess of 260 million gross tonnes
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