Legal jobs in Zürich

What you would do

• Independently manage legal mandates and orders from the client base, ensuring competent and timely processing.
• Review and process benefit cases and mandates on data protection.
• Provide ongoing legal advice to clients.
• Contribute to client discussions and foundation council meetings.
• Develop the legal advisory offering in occupational pensions and design new products and services.
• Acquire new clients and expand existing mandates.

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• Advise and represent employers in all aspects of labor contract law, including contract drafting, terminations, and advice on everyday questions.
• Support M&A transactions and restructurings, including due diligence, support of business transfers, harmonization of working conditions, mass layoffs, and social plans.
• Represent clients in labor law disputes, negotiate settlements, and conduct proceedings.
• Represent clients in permit procedures (residence/work permits, personnel leasing, personnel placement).
• Work with national and international clients in an international labor law environment.

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• Provide legal counsel and support to the Zurich and Morges branches.
• Draft and review legal documents.
• Advise on legal matters.
• Support the legal department in day-to-day operations.

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• Acquire mandates in the field of law.
• Provide comprehensive legal advice to national and international clients on corporate law, corporate governance, M&A transactions, corporate structuring, financing law, capital market law, restructuring and insolvency law.
• Manage regulatory, legal and tax projects for a broad portfolio of corporate structuring.
• Notarise contracts.
• Conduct client meetings on corporate law topics and regulatory approval issues.
• Draft and/or review contracts, regulations, financing documents and handle corporate governance issues.

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• Creating and reviewing contracts in the field of property law (such as purchase, servitude, and pledge contracts).
• Advising customers.
• Independently certifying contracts.
• Processing land registry transactions.

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• The posting contains only contact details and no role description.
• Based on the title, the role involves overseeing compliance for corporate clients, including monitoring regulatory requirements, conducting compliance reviews, and advising corporate clients on compliance matters.

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• Advise on Swiss financial market legislation (FINIA, FINSA, CISA, ASV, BVV2) and FINMA regulations.
• Advise on EU frameworks (AIFMD, MiFID II, SFDR).
• Lead Swiss regulatory and cross-border matters, including regulatory authorizations and interaction with FINMA and OAK-BV.
• Advise on revision of legal fund documents, marketing and distribution of investment funds.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial, corporate and investment-related agreements.
• Support the Luxembourg affiliate on private market funds, collective investment schemes and partnership structures.

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• Advise ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and global institutions on cross-border tax and wealth structuring.
• Work on complex, multi-jurisdictional mandates involving international tax and wealth planning.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the global network to deliver innovative solutions.
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships.
• Contribute to cross-border mandates involving financial institutions, pension funds, and insurance companies.

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• Act as member of the center of competence for sanctions matters and requests regarding international sanctions and embargoes.
• Provide guidance and advice on financial products and services affected by sanctions.
• Advise employees on measures in adherence to the Global Sanctions and Control Framework.
• Establish and provide input to sanctions-relevant procedures.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and implement locally applicable laws and sanctions regimes (UN, US, UK, EU, CH).
• Collaborate with local Compliance across Group entities to ensure know-how transfer.

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What you would do

• Advising on legal issues surrounding the structuring of new and existing financial products.
• Drafting customer-facing legal documents for these products.
• Contributing to product and commercial teams to design and deliver compliant solutions under Swiss legislation.
• Managing regulatory expectations, requirements, and applications.
• Engaging and working with local regulators.
• Handling significant and complex legal matters with short turnaround times.

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• Advise national and international clients on data protection and privacy issues under Swiss DSG and EU GDPR.
• Participate in demanding mandates and projects with legal analysis, interpretation of regulatory requirements, and practical recommendations.
• Support implementation of data protection requirements including guidelines, contracts, data protection impact assessments, and governance structures.
• Collaborate with Tax & Legal colleagues and interdisciplinary PwC teams on complex issues.
• Create publications, presentations, and training on data processing topics such as marketing, digital platforms, social media, outsourcing, and HR data.
• Contribute to developing the data protection service portfolio and team positioning.

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• Handle mandates in construction and real estate law, contract law, corporate law, public procurement law, liability and insurance law, labor law, debt collection and bankruptcy law.
• Work independently with a high degree of personal responsibility on a variety of mandates in a business law firm.

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• Review and negotiate transaction documents for US growth equity and pre-IPO deals and private fund investments, including subscription agreements, side letters, LPAs, term sheets, and co-investment documentation.
• Give the investment team direct, actionable legal guidance during deal execution and diligence, flagging risks early and proposing solutions.
• Own corporate governance and entity management across the international group structure, including shareholder matters, financing rounds, and stock option plans.
• Collaborate with finance and operations on cross-functional legal matters and investor-related matters.
• Coordinate with and manage external counsel.
• Build and maintain playbooks, templates, and review workflows.

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• Provide legal advice on innovation projects, international acquisitions and disposals, administrative matters, damage, warranty, data protection and insurance cases, and contract drafting across all specialist departments.
• Act as a sparring partner in all legal matters including corporate law, M&A, competition and cartel law, real estate law, and EU regulations.
• Support colleagues and superiors within the legal department and collaborate with stakeholders, controlling, the holding company, and subsidiaries.

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• Provide strategic and legal advice across all stages of digital transformation initiatives and strategic partnerships.
• Support the development of innovative banking products and help enable new digital offerings for clients.
• Shape the design of digital client interaction and contribute to the creation of new services.

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• Lead and develop a team of 5 inheritance specialists.
• Advise clients on marital property, inheritance, and adult protection law.
• Draft wills, marriage and inheritance contracts, and pension orders.
• Manage executor mandates and inheritance divisions.
• Take over mandate leadership from other employees.
• Develop inheritance services and participate in projects.

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• Support the Legal Department with legal and compliance matters for Asset Management.
• Store physical and electronic contracts and maintain investment fund databases for contract management.
• Handle administrative activities for the maintenance of investment funds.
• Control and manage fund documentation including registrations, tax figures and projects.
• Administer annual reports.
• Forward reports to senior management, committees and authorities.

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• Develop solution proposals for issues across commercial and tax law.
• Provide legal advice to national and international clients.
• Advise on national and international mandates.
• Develop tax structuring concepts in M&A, restructurings, and cross-border tax issues.
• Cooperate with international law firms.

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• Independently and in a team, process larger national and international mandates in financing (debt and equity), capital markets (including public takeover law), and corporate law.
• Take responsibility for work and contribute to ongoing training and development.

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• Handle litigation matters including proceedings and questions in the area of the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure (SchKG).
• Work within an international litigation team with high autonomy and responsibility.

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