Senior Legal & Compliance Manager – Private Markets

Job Description

Senior Legal & Compliance Manager – Private Markets

Location

Geneva

Your future employer

Our client is a leading private markets investment firm serving a sophisticated global client base of asset owners. Through a diversified platform covering private equity, private credit and real assets, the firm designs and manages bespoke investment solutions across international markets.

As part of its continued expansion, the firm is seeking to appoint a Senior Legal & Compliance Manager to lead the company’s legal & compliance function; and support its core business acting on the legal design, execution and governance of private markets investment structures.

Your Mission and Contribution

Reporting directly to senior management, you will play a pivotal role both in the investment advisory activity, and in the company’s sustainability, defending its best interests and ensuring its compliance to regulations.

Company overview

·       Write, review and negotiate all legal agreements of the company, acting as the gatekeeper in the best interests of InPact Partners and its clients

·       Design and implement the legal framework to support for new company initiatives

Legal negotiation

·       Ensure all terms of the agreements are duly complied with and negotiated contractual provisions are effectively implemented

·       Perform legal due diligence on investment projects (funds and co-investments) and negotiate terms (changes in legal documents, side letters, etc.) to protect our clients’ interests

Structuring

·       Structure separate managed accounts (SMAs) with fund managers to incorporate negotiated terms and optimize legal and operational efficiency

·       Structure and establish dedicated vehicles with third parties to manage our client mandates

Compliance

·       Develop and maintain a robust framework of policies and procedures within the company

·       Coordinate with external counsel across various jurisdictions and oversee the delivery of legal documentation 

·       Identify, assess and mitigate legal and compliance risks

Reporting & Training

·       Perform required regulatory reporting to regulators, auditors, the management committee and the Board of Directors

·       Maintain the knowledge over relevant laws and regulations and train the team members accordingly

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience gained within leading firms (law firms, private markets investment managers, asset manager or alternative investment platform)
  
• Strong expertise in private markets fund formation and international investment structuring
  
• Proven experience advising institutional investors, asset managers or alternative investment funds
  
• Excellent knowledge of cross-border legal frameworks applicable to private markets investments
  
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives
  
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and coordinating external legal advisers. 
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  
• Entrepreneurial, pragmatic and solution-oriented approach
  
• Fluency in English is essential; French is an advantage
  

Benefits

• A strategic role within a fast-growing international investment platform. 
  
• Exposure to complex, cross-border private markets transactions. 
  
• Close interaction with senior management and investment decision-makers. 
  
• An entrepreneurial and collaborative culture with significant autonomy.