Associate General Counsel Bermuda / Investments

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success. The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to:

Shape your own career

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Job Description

About this job:

We are looking to hire an Associate General Counsel to join our Legal & Compliance team in Stamford reporting to the PartnerRe General Counsel Bermuda / Investments. 

We are a global, diversified reinsurer with a local footprint who can step up to any challenge while remaining nimble enough to be adaptive and responsive. Reinsurance is a relationship business, which is reflected in the promise of our name, PartnerRe. We are a centralized organization and bring a personal approach to the marketplace with a distinctive balance of technical skills, client focus, and expertise. We are a global organization with a multicultural workforce. 

In this business-facing role, you will be supporting the General Counsel Bermuda / Investments for all Legal and Compliance issues arising from the PartnerRe Group’s property & casualty and life (re)insurance companies in Bermuda as well as advising and supporting our internal Investment Manager in all Legal & Compliance aspects.  In addition, your work will include advising and partnering with the business on matters impacting the entire PartnerRe Group, such as ESG/Sustainability, Cybersecurity, and other cross-jurisdictional regulation in conjunction with other PartnerRe attorneys and executives. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide transactional, commercial, corporate, investment & regulatory legal and compliance advice to PartnerRe business units and executive management. 
• Manage all corporate and governance aspects for all PartnerRe legal entities in Bermuda and Investments entities (e.g., monitoring external investment managers, Form 20-F SEC reporting, etc.).
• In conjunction with the General Counsel, direct significant projects with internal business clients and outside counsel.
• Manage external counsel budgets in a pro-active and cost-effective way with a constant focus on improving the services and value PartnerRe purchases from external advisers.
• Provide legal advice on matters related to Bermuda employees including employee benefits, real estate leases and antitrust.
• Manage regulatory projects and strategic initiatives / transactions from a legal perspective (e.g., capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, etc.).
• Identify, manage and mitigate legal, regulatory and reputational risks.
• Assist the underwriting units as well as support functions on cross-jurisdictional initiatives.

Qualifications

About you:

• We are looking for a technically strong candidate, who enjoys collaborating with