Legal, Private Wealth Management, Transactional Lawyer, Vice President, Zurich / Birmingham / London Zurich · Switzerland · Vice President

OUR IMPACT

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. We provide a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base, including corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals.

Our culture is defined by our people’s commitment to delivering exceptional service to clients through collaboration, innovation and a relentless pursuit of excellence.

Private Wealth Management

Private Wealth Management (PWM) is part of the Asset and Wealth Management Division of Goldman Sachs. PWM provides a comprehensive range of investment and banking services to wealthy individuals and families worldwide, including discretionary investment management, investment advice, execution services, deposits and lending.

These services span a diversified range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, structured products, derivatives, hedge funds and other alternative investments.

In EMEA, PWM focuses primarily on individuals, families and family offices based in the region. Clients invest through a wide variety of vehicles, including corporates, trusts, partnerships and regulated or unregulated funds, across a broad range of jurisdictions.

The Legal Division

The Goldman Sachs Legal Division spans offices across more than 60 cities worldwide. The division supports the firm by thinking critically, solving complex problems and managing regulatory and reputational risk.

This role may be right for you if you want to work in an environment where you provide high-quality legal advice in support of the global activities of the firm and its clients.

Our Department Culture

As a department, we are focused on our people and their development. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and offer a range of training and career development opportunities, including:

Weekly legal training programmes

A people development committee focused on providing practical tools to help manage and develop careers

Active Diversity, Pro Bono, Charity and Social Committees

Opportunities to participate in the Women’s, Black and LGBT firmwide affinity networks

YOUR IMPACT

The EMEA Wealth Management Legal team includes lawyers based in the UK, Zurich and Frankfurt. In the UK, the team is split across London and Birmingham. Team members regularly work closely with colleagues in PWM Legal in the US and Asia.

Lawyers in Wealth Management Legal advise a diverse group of clients across the PWM businesses. They frequently collaborate with colleagues across the broader Legal Division and thrive in a fast-paced environment, delivering consistently high-quality advice to dynamic and evolving businesses.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, proactive and resilient candidate based in London, Birmingham or Zurich. This is a broad role supporting the Capital Markets, Private Bank and Regulatory teams within Wealth Management Legal.

The successful candidate will be expected to work independently from day one and manage a diverse and complex workload. This will include transactional work, primarily focused on loan transactions, as well as advising on the regulatory implications of existing and new business initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

Structuring and drafting documentation for lending products, including securities-based loans, consumer loans, deposits, regulated mortgages, structured asset-backed loans and real estate financings.

Supporting the growing Capital Markets and Private Bank businesses on new product and platform launches, as well as business transformation projects.

Leveraging AI tools to streamline transaction execution through automation and playbook development.

Advising on collateral enforceability and security registration across EMEA jurisdictions.

Advising on the UK and European regulatory regimes affecting the Capital Markets and Private Bank businesses, including CRD, MiFID II, MAR, EMIR, consumer credit and mortgage regulation, and jurisdictional licensing requirements for securities and banking transactions.

Liaising with lawyers across the Goldman Sachs Legal Division globally on regulatory interpretation, advocacy and implementation.

Working with outside counsel on a broad range of domestic and cross-border jurisdictional issues.

Skills and Experience:

We are seeking qualified lawyers with a minimum of two years’ post-qualification experience. Candidates should have either prior lending and/or derivatives transactional experience, or general financial services advisory experience combined with a willingness to move into a transactional role.

Relevant experience may have been gained at a reputable law firm and/or in-house. Very strong English language skills are required. Knowledge of a major European language would be useful but is not essential.

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm headquartered in New York, with offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We are committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual has opportunities to grow professionally and personally. These opportunities include training and development, firmwide networks, benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programmes.

Learn more about our culture, benefits and people at GS.com/careers.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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