Specialist in-house and legal practice lawyers in demand

Barclay Simpson’s Legal Division specialises in recruiting lawyers for legal jobs in Hong Kong and Singapore in the financial services sector, MNCs and Legal Practices. We have a successful track record recruiting for investment banks, commercial and retail banks, asset managers and hedge funds, insurance groups, private equity firms and financial services focused risk management consulting and legal practices. Our clients range from large global financial institutions with extensive legal teams to small privately owned groups looking to recruit their first in-house legal advisor.

The financial services industry is emerging from the recession slimmer but more widely regulated. Forward thinking in-house legal teams are continuing to restructure as they become more efficient and versatile. Lawyers are expected to have a strong understanding of regulatory matters and legal risk as in-house teams work more closely with compliance and risk functions.

The mainstream legal practices are also noted to be boosting its head-count in anticipation of an upturn in external counsel projects.

As confidence improves we expect the demand for lawyers generally and transactional, Intellectual Property and Litigation lawyers to increase, in particular those with competent Asian language skills, most notably Mandarin Chinese.

We recruit qualified lawyers at all levels for a wide range of technically specific and generalist legal roles including:

  • Derivatives
  • Structured Products
  • Securitisation
  • Leveraged Finance
  • General Banking
  • Corporate Finance
  • Insurance
  • Private equity
  • Funds

For more information on legal jobs in Hong Kong and the current Asia Pacific legal recruitment market in general, please contact William Chan wc@barclaysimpson.com.hk +852 2546 2955

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