Principal Legal Counsel (Disputes and Contentious Risk)

Location: Bristol head office, United Kingdom; hybrid flexible working pattern

Company

hirify.global is a UK investment platform helping private investors save and invest.

What you will do

• Provide expert contentious regulatory, disputes, enforcement, and litigation advice to senior stakeholders.
• Manage legal workstreams for contentious regulatory projects and resolve complex legal issues arising from complaints and risk events.
• Instruct and manage external counsel where specialist expertise is required.
• Develop legal training, knowledge resources, templates, guidelines, and FAQs to improve consistency and manage legal risk.
• Supervise trainees and junior team members, build internal and external networks, and contribute to legal team strategy.

Requirements

• Qualified Solicitor with 10+ years PQE.
• Experience as a contentious financial services regulatory lawyer, preferably in a retail financial services context and with litigation experience.
• Strong understanding of UK financial services law, FCA regulation, and Financial Ombudsman Service complaints handling.
• Excellent legal drafting, written and verbal communication, negotiation, collaboration, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Ability to work from the Bristol head office under the role's hybrid working pattern.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative legal team with a focus on learning, quality, innovation, and opportunity.
• Full-time schedule of 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, on a fixed-term contract until 30 July 2027.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and an additional Christmas closure day, with an option to purchase five additional days.
• Annual bonus, annual pay review, pension contributions of up to 11%, income protection, life insurance, and private medical insurance.
• Enhanced parental leave, health support, wellbeing services, volunteering days, and travel-to-work schemes.

Hiring process

• Two-stage competency- and behavioural-based interview process.
• Psychometric assessment included.
• Employment sponsorship is not available.