Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Type: Full time
PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed‑income investing, bringing deep expertise across public and private markets. Since 1971 the firm has built a high‑performance, inclusive culture, celebrating diverse thinking and underpinning the CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence.
Position Overview
We are seeking an exceptional investment‑management attorney to join our EMEA Legal team. The role requires a technically strong, commercially minded lawyer who can provide hands‑on legal advice across key business functions—trade floor / portfolio management, client facing, product management and compliance—for a diverse institutional client base including UCITS, AIFs and sub‑advised fund clients. Based in London, you will work closely with other lawyers in PIMCO’s European Legal team, supporting all aspects of business in EMEA and the global distribution of PIMCO’s European funds.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a key legal adviser on portfolio management and trading‑related issues, providing advice on investment guideline interpretation, compliance, and liaising with portfolio managers, compliance and risk.
- Advise trade floor, client‑facing teams, product teams and compliance on eligibility and guideline questions for UCITS, AIFMD funds and sub‑advised client funds, including complex or novel matters.
- Offer counsel on legal issues from institutional client mandates, fund investment arrangements and complex account structures intersecting with investment activity or trading constraints.
- Provide guidance on investment requirements across different client/product types and jurisdictions.
- Contribute to updates of investment rule coding, guideline frameworks and governance or investment‑related forums, covering regulatory change or evolving market practice.
- Provide advice on regulations relevant to the trade floor—including UCITS/AIFMD, MiFID, Benchmarks Regulation, Securitisation Regulation, regulatory reporting regimes such as SFTR/EMIR and short‑selling rules—monitoring areas of regulatory divergence.
- Advise on day‑to‑day transactions, trading issues and real‑time wall crossing, MNPI and market‑sounding matters.
- Support transactional activities on the trade floor, including private placements and structured investments, advising on documentation, constraints and key execution risks.
- Assist with investment‑related elements of fund documentation, ensuring alignment between strategy, guidelines and legal restrictions.
- Support fund restructurings, investment strategy changes and trading activity that raise legal or regulatory interpretation questions.
- Advise portfolio management, product, client‑facing teams and compliance on ESG regulatory requirements—including ESG investment restrictions, PAI reporting, ESG disclosures and fund classifications—and the impact of evolving ESG guidance on portfolios and trading activity.
Experience Required
- Qualified lawyer with strong investment‑management experience, ideally within an asset manager or leading law firm.
- Good understanding of global fixed‑income management, securitisations, credit, equities, derivatives, public and private funds, commodities and real estate.
- Demonstrated experience advising on trade floor/investment‑related legal and regulatory issues, including investment restrictions, eligibility analysis and real‑time trading questions.
- Strong technical knowledge of UCITS/AIFMD investment powers, restrictions and guidelines.
- Experience instructing and working efficiently with external counsel across multiple disciplines/jurisdictions.
- Ability to provide clear, practical, timely and commercially focused advice to investment professionals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable Attributes
- Approximately 5+years post‑qualification experience in investment‑management or financial‑services law.
- Prior experience supporting portfolio managers, traders or investment product teams.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, particularly with complex regulatory or guideline‑driven matters.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high‑quality advice under time pressure.
- Collaborative working style and strong professional judgment.
Additional Information
PIMCO offers a highly collaborative, intellectually rigorous environment with exposure to complex investment products and global markets. This role provides a strong platform for an attorney seeking to deepen technical expertise at the intersection of law, investing and trading within a leading global asset manager.
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