Assistant General Counsel, Mutual Funds

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Legal Counsel

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The Assistant General Counsel, Mutual Funds will consult and provide legal advice to the organization on complex legal issues. Provide guidance within assigned practice area(s) to in-house constituents. In particular, advise senior management and key business group clients on legal issues arising out of the ongoing operations of the Transamerica Funds Complex, Transamerica Asset Management (TAM), and related service providers and help ensure these activities are conducted in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Analyze issues and provide guidance to ensure compliance with all applicable rules and regulations affecting these entities, including the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Securities Act of 1933.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Work on complex legal issues where analysis requires identification and evaluation of multiple factors.
• Manage legal matters provided to a number of in-house constituents within practice area(s).
• Advise business on issues impacting significant functional areas of the company.
• Negotiate discrete disputes within practice area(s).
• Review and draft documents and templates within practice area(s).
• Coordinate legal matters handled by outside counsel.
• Participate in and may lead departmental and cross-functional working groups in identified areas of legal expertise or development.
• Examples of responsibilities within specific practice areas:
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