Job Title: Legal Director

Team: Insurance/Reinsurance All Lines

Location: Singapore

Role

Kennedys Legal Solutions is seeking a Legal Director with experience providing complex coverage advice across the range of financial lines insurance risks underwritten in the APAC region (including, but not limited to, directors and officers, professional indemnity, crime/BBB, W&I, POSI, IMI and cyber policies); monitoring complex commercial disputes; handling arbitrations and optionally managing cyber incident response. The role also includes advising on subrogated recoveries. The successful candidate will work for a range of local insurers in the Asian market, London syndicates and other international insurers.

The Partner is seeking an experienced lawyer with a deep working knowledge of financial lines insurance issues who is able to work autonomously and proactively in managing matters and building client relationships. The role will be client facing and involve significant business development work. Given Singapore operates as a global business headquarters for numerous MNCs and a key financial hub in Asia, the work will necessarily be international in nature and the candidate must be able to engage in international business travel. The successful candidate will also be expected to mentor and train junior members within the team, conduct internal and external training seminars for staff and clients and regularly publish and present thought leadership pieces to a local and international audience. The candidate will ideally have experience advising clients on cross-jurisdictional claims and be expected to regularly engage and collaborate on client initiatives with colleagues in the APAC, EMEA and US regions.

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 in a vibrant and increasingly vital international business centre.

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, UK 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 report directly to the Partner and have the support of other lawyers in the team.

Clients

Insurers and reinsurers
Lloyds syndicates
Global composites

Cases

Advising insurers on complex coverage issues across PI, D&O, Crime/BBB, W&I, POSI, IMI and Cyber
Monitoring litigation in various jurisdictions in Asia and abroad; prosecuting and defending arbitrations
Managing 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 a common law jurisdiction such as England & Wales / Australia (dual admission in Singapore is ideal)
Insurance experience, ideally coverage, across financial lines and professional indemnity
Ideally experience in cyber incident response
International arbitration experience preferred
Good relationships with clients, including insureds, insurance brokers and insurers in the APAC and/or London market
Experience working in cross-jurisdictional disputes with other lawyers within the global network
Strong business development capabilities and presentation skills and extensive experience in complex financial lines advice
Demonstrated experience in mentoring and guiding junior lawyers

*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.