Financial Crime & Sanctions (export control) – Senior Lawyer

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are looking to bring in a mid to senior associate with advisory, compliance and investigatory sanctions and export control experience to bolster our practice. Working with an experienced Partner and three junior lawyers in the UK, as well as colleagues in Europe and the Middle East, you will be a central point of contact across the firm for all sanctions and export controls as well as potentially supporting on other financial crime investigations and compliance work.

We recognise the team needs a senior, experienced associate with an entrepreneurial approach to take the practice to the next level. This role offers the right individual great career prospects, specifically someone seeking the potential for partnership in the next five years. This role is open to locations across our AG offices in the UK, however our preference would be to hire into Leeds or London.

THE TEAM

Two Partners – Harriet Territt who leads the team and has 20+ years advising on complex sanctions and export control matters and Michelle de Kluyver who is the Global Investigations Group Head. Alongside three other lawyers who regularly act on sanctions and export control related matters.

Harriet has sanctions and export controls as a primary focus of her practices and is looking to grow the team with an experienced lawyer who can step into a senior associate role, help develop a junior lawyer in the team's skills and experience as well as build the practice with Harriet.

The practice is currently 60/40% advisory vs investigatory work. That has changed from 90/10% in the last three years when Harriet first joined the team. The aim is to specifically target sanctions and export control investigations and enforcement actions so that the balance of work is more like 30/70% in the next five years. However advisory and compliance work will always be a significant feature of this role and the successful candidate will be able to build relationships with corporate and financial clients and develop experience in managing complex diligence reviews and advisory work with limited partner supervision.

AG is strategically committed to developing the sanctions and export control practice as part of our 2030 strategy. Our team sits in the award-winning Global Investigations team so you will be working with a group of lawyers that deal with some of the most complex issues that AG clients face.

We regularly advise two of the UK's largest retail banks as well as several FTSE100 clients on their day-to-day sanctions and export control matters. We are also acting on a complex dual use/military items criminal investigation by HMRC.

YOUR AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

The ideal candidate will have a good level of technical knowledge and experience of advising on sanctions and export control matters. The core requirement is for sanctions experience and there is the option to skill up on the export control side, but export controls is an active and developing part of our practice so would need to be a focus for the successful candidate. Ability to advise on sanctions advisory and compliance matters as the lead associate, seeking partner support when required. The GI team cover the full range of corporate crime investigations and advisory work including fraud, corruption, money laundering and modern slavery. While these areas are well covered by the existing team, there are opportunities to maintain a more general investigatory practice, but with a primary focus on sanctions and export controls.

OUR FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition. We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets. Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients. Are you up for the challenge?