Overview:
Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.
We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.
If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Knowledge Management department in our London office as a Finance Knowledge Counsel.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

• Leading, advising and generating ideas on the development and delivery of the team’s knowledge management (“KM”) strategy to align with the team’s business objectives and the firm’s global KM strategy.
• Clearly and consistently communicating the KM strategy to the team.
• Regularly engaging and working with partners and fee-earners to inform priorities and strategic decisions on KM initiatives for the team.
• Leading and closely collaborating on the direction and prioritisation of workflows with the team’s current London Finance Knowledge Lawyer.

LEGAL KNOWLEDGE

• Monitoring and keeping the team up-to-date and ahead of the curve on important developments in relevant law or business environment.
• Leading on the drafting, updating and maintenance of the team’s knowledge resources, in particular standard forms and precedent documents, to ensure the team has access to first rate materials.
• Developing materials to assist the team in making deal processes more efficient and streamlined.
• Capturing, curating and maintaining, via the firm’s “Global Knowledge Bank” (GKB) and the team’s intranet site, market-leading knowledge resources, which include in particular standard forms, precedent documents, best practices, how-to memos, legal research documents and other relevant resources.
• Advising and acting as a “sounding board” for partners and fee-earners on technical legal queries and, where appropriate, giving advice directly to clients.
• Advising on and mitigating risk for the team by keeping abreast of legal and regulatory developments that may impact the team’s practice, working closely with its risk partners and the firm’s Legal Risk Management team.
• Working with partners and fee-earners to create new and improve existing processes to capture practice-related knowledge content and promote the sharing of information, knowledge and experience generally across the team.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Considerable experience practicing as a finance lawyer for an international top-ranked law firm.
• Excellent technical legal knowledge and expertise in a broad range of finance matters.
• High professional standards with a passion for delivering a quality product.
• Excellent drafting and research skills.
• Well-developed organisation skills and attention to detail.
• Understanding of different learning processes and methods of training.
• Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style.
• Ability to work effectively within an established, close-knit team.
• Ability to confidently interact with people at all levels and build credibility and relationships in all areas of the business.
• A commercial and pragmatic outlook.
• Self-motivated and possesses a very pro-active, independent attitude to owning and progressing workflows.
  At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.
  Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.
  One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote diversity and inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our diversity networks - LGBT+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).
  We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.

Finance Knowledge Counsel
We are offering an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance lawyer, currently in a senior knowledge role, or a senior fee-earner with a track record of engaging in knowledge management activities, to join our market-leading Finance team in London.
The Finance team serves many of the world’s most successful banks, funds, agencies, asset managers and companies and is recognised as a global market leader in structured finance. With finance lawyers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, our balanced and integrated practice encompasses all the focused skill sets that our clients demand – from cross-border acquisition finance and international capital markets work to real estate, project finance, structured finance and derivatives. Chambers & Partners identifies the Finance team as a “banking ‘powerhouse’ for its sheer manpower and global coverage”.
The successful applicant will need be technically excellent, consistently produce work to a high professional standard, as-well as being self-motivated and possess a very pro-active attitude leading on knowledge-related initiatives independently for the team.
Our Finance Knowledge Counsel are part of a dynamic, supportive and evolving global Knowledge Management team of more than 26 Knowledge Counsel/Lawyers and Knowledge Specialists and Executives located across the globe, whose purpose is to help transform the practice of capturing, curating, disseminating, and enabling the effective use of legal and commercial knowledge and data across the global firm to make it better and easier for our lawyers and our clients to leverage our intellectual capital and derive the greatest value from it.