Legal Director

Job Title: Legal Director

Team: Insurance/Reinsurance All Lines & Cyber

Location: Singapore

Role

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Director with experience providing complex coverage advice (in respect of, but not limiting to, financial lines, directors and offices, professional indemnity, crime/BBB, cyber policies); monitoring complex commercial disputes; handling arbitrations and/or managing cyber incident response.

The successful candidate will be advising insurers and reinsurers based in the region and globally (to include Lloyd's syndicates) on high value, coverage matters; monitoring complex commercial disputes, prosecuting and defending arbitration and/or managing cyber incident responses. The role also includes advising on subrogated recoveries. The successful candidate will work directly for the Partner in this team in Singapore and will have regular contact with clients both in Singapore and internationally. They will also have the opportunity to work with partners in other Kennedys offices in the region.

This is a unique opportunity for bright and ambitious lawyers keen on working in a market leading and international team within a global law firm.  The successful applicant will be exposed to a wide range of international work. It is also an opportunity to help develop and mentor junior team members.

Team

Kennedys Singapore office was established in 2008 and in 2015 entered into a joint law venture (JLV) with local Singapore law firm, Legal Solutions to create Kennedys Legal Solutions. Kennedys Legal Solutions is the Singapore office of the international law firm Kennedys which has 45 offices around the world.

We pride ourselves on helping our clients navigate both business and legal challenges throughout the Asia Pacific region and across multiple practice areas, with a strong focus in both the commercial and insurance/reinsurance sector. We provide a seamless suite of services across both English and Singapore law and are closely connected with our offices in Hong Kong, Australia and the Middle East, as well as partner firms across Asia.

Kennedys' financial lines team deal with all areas of financial lines and professional liability matters handling claims of all sizes and complexities and the role has become available due to an exciting time of growth. The successful candidate will have the support of a couple of Senior Associates in the team.

Clients

• Insurers and reinsurers        
• Lloyds syndicates
• Global composites

Cases

• Advising insurers on complex coverage issues
• Monitoring litigation in various jurisdictions in Asia; prosecuting and defending arbitrations
• Attending to subrogated recoveries

Required Experience

• Minimum of 10 years' law firm experience, but we are open to applications from more experienced lawyers with the applicable experience and ambition*
• Qualified in Singapore and/or common law jurisdiction, ideally England & Wales / Australia
• Insurance experience, ideally coverage, across financial lines and professional indemnity
• Ideally experience in cyber incident response
• Good relationships with clients, including insureds, insurance brokers and insurers in the APAC and/or London market
• Experience working in a cross-jurisdictional manner with other lawyers within the global network
• Strong business development capabilities and extensive experience in the field
• Strong experience in mentoring and guiding juniors

* Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.  A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.  We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority.  We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.  Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.