Senior Legal Counsel

WHAT MAKES US, US 

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! 

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to support our EMEA Market Unit (as well as globally) as part of our Group Legal team. The commercial legal team comprises 5-7 independent counsels supporting customer engagements globally. It is a global team with a few lawyers working out of the US and much of the team in Europe. The team is responsible for providing legal advice on a broad range of commercial matters, with the main focus on software as a service contracts with SimCorp’s customers, suppliers and partners. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Our platform, SimCorp One, is one of the world's leading investment management solutions used globally by international financial institutions and equity funds.  

As our new Senior Legal Counsel, your focus will be to support SimCorp’s sales teams in negotiating complex IT contracts with a main focus on cloud, IP and business services, including legal research and legal advice regarding regulatory requirements for the SimCorp’s client base. You will work directly with the management and business of SimCorp, serving as lead counsel on strategic deals. 

Other responsibilities will include: 

• Contribute to the establishment and continuous refinement of contract templates (SaaS, Business Services) 
• Resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries, through day-to-day advice 
• Provide ad-hoc advice on various legal matters such as intellectual property rights, corporate law and various other areas of law 

Your job will focus on negotiation of SaaS and services contracts in our EMEA market unit and globally.

WHAT WE VALUE

As our preferred candidate you: 

• Have a degree in law and have been practicing as an in-house counsel or as an attorney for at least 3 years 
• Experience with financial regulations such as DORA, BaFin, ESMA
• Have experience with drafting and negotiating complex IT contracts on the sell side and advising tech companies 
• Know the legal aspects of software as a service and IT outsourcing, preferably within fintech 
• Have a good understanding of commercial issues and are able to balance the need for sound business advice with the need for maintaining a high standard of legal advice 
• Can work indеpеndеntly and accommodate tight deadlines 
• Willingness to work on site in the Copenhagen/Bad Homburg office 2-3x per week as per our hybrid work model 

Effective performance in this job requires comfort with rapid development and the aptitude to promptly address consultative demands. You have great interpersonal skills and can interact with and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including senior management. 

BENEFITS   

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days. 

Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.   

NEXT STEP 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitmen