Legal Counsel

Join Us As A Legal Counsel This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified lawyer with private practice or in-house experience to develop their career in one of the UK's leading Private Banking and Wealth Management businesses. You'll work closely with experienced legal colleagues and senior business stakeholders, gaining exposure to a broad range of wealth management and retail investment products and services. You'll join a collaborative, commercially focused legal team on a permanent basis, providing practical advice that supports strategic growth, innovation and strong outcomes for clients. What You'll Do As our Legal Counsel, you'll provide clear, practical and commercially focused legal advice to the Private Banking and Wealth Management business, helping stakeholders navigate legal and regulatory issues in a complex and fast-moving environment. Working as part of a supportive legal team, you'll contribute to a varied portfolio of advisory work, transactions, projects and business initiatives, building your expertise while helping the business deliver strong client and commercial outcomes. Your work will focus on: Providing proactive legal advice on wealth management and retail investment products and services, with support from more senior lawyers where appropriate Supporting strategic growth, integration and transformation activity by advising on legal issues, identifying risks and helping the business progress key initiatives effectively Partnering with colleagues across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Governance and the wider business to support informed decision-making and good client outcomes Contributing to improvements in operating practices and processes, helping to make legal support easier to access, more efficient and more effective Developing trusted relationships with internal stakeholders and external advisers, communicating legal advice in a clear, concise and accessible way The Skills You'll Need We're looking for a qualified lawyer with experience in financial services, private practice or an in-house legal team. You'll be interested in developing your expertise in wealth management and retail investments, and you'll be confident working with stakeholders to provide practical, commercial and well-judged legal advice. You don't need to have done this exact role before. What matters is that you bring strong legal judgement, intellectual curiosity, a collaborative approach and the confidence to learn quickly in a regulated financial services environment. This is a great opportunity to broaden your experience, work on high-profile business priorities and develop your career within a supportive and ambitious legal function. We'll expect you to have: A strong grounding in legal practice, with the ability to analyse issues, apply sound judgement and provide pragmatic advice in a commercial context An interest in wealth management, retail investments and the legal and regulatory environment in which financial services firms operate The confidence to build effective relationships with stakeholders, ask the right questions and communicate advice clearly to lawyers and non-lawyers alike A collaborative working style, with the ability to manage competing priorities, take ownership of work and contribute positively to team delivery A commitment to developing your expertise, staying up to date with legal and market developments, and delivering high-quality outcomes for the business and its clients Hours: 35 NatWest Group