Position: Irish-Qualified Solicitor (Consultant)
Company: Cleveland & Co
Location: Remote, Fully flexible
Reports To: Senior leadership team, depending on work requirements.

ABOUT CLEVELAND & CO

Cleveland & Co is a dynamic outsourced in-house legal team, providing innovative, practical, and commercially focused legal solutions to the investment management and financial services industry. We serve 20% of the top 20 UK asset management firms, as well as banks, industry associations, pensions funds, and boutique investment firms. Our clients combined assets under management exceed £9 trillion. With a strong commitment to excellence and client service, we operate in a fast-paced, collaborative, and intellectually stimulating environment. We are a forward-thinking team and offer fully flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
We are growing internationally. We’re looking for experienced, ambitious Irish qualified solicitors looking for a role that will offer the opportunity to work with a broad range of firms across financial services and investment management.
This is a consulting role, suitable for someone who wants flexibility in their career.

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS & LOCATION

This unique role operates on a zero-hours basis, signifying a flexible schedule with no guaranteed minimum hours per week. As an on-call Consultant, you will be called upon as needed to provide expert insights and strategic guidance. This is a fully remote role.
We actively encourage candidates to apply who may be returning from a career break.
If you are a seasoned professional looking for a flexible and dynamic consulting opportunity, we invite you to apply for this role.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

The ideal candidate will hold practising certificate in Ireland, have at least 3 years’ experience either in industry, in house or in private practise in at least two or more of the following:

• investment management (retail and/or institutional);
• Irish regulated funds;
• distribution of funds or other financial products;
• fund establishment (in Ireland and any other jurisdiction);
• international funds;
• private equity;
• real estate;
• trading and derivatives;
• custody and administration services;
• transactional documentation;
• corporate; and commercial contracts.

Must-have criteria for this role:

• holding a current practising certificate;
• law degree in Ireland;
• At least 3+ years’ legal work experience in the jurisdiction you hold a practising certificate;
• English language proficiency;
• Independent, resourceful, and confident with great problem-solving skills;
• Adept at building relationships internally and externally;
• Strong interpersonal skills, business sense, and professionalism to communicate with all levels of management, staff and clients located in different jurisdictions;
• Proactive, able to take the initiative and anticipate the firm’s and client’s needs;
• Ability to work effectively with a range of personality types and seniority levels;
• Highly motivated self-starter with a history of pushing for deadline-driven results;
• Lead and be one step ahead, constantly thinking about what needs to be done next to improve efficiency for the team and our clients;
• Ability to work in an environment requiring attention to detail and high levels of accuracy;
• Ability to work autonomously where required, meet deadlines and handle queries from inside and outside the company;
• A MacBook laptop as we operate a BYOA(pple) policy to allow for maximum agility.

Why Join Cleveland & Co?

• A Platform for Strategic Growth: Step into a role where you’re empowered to shape client strategy, mentor future legal talent, and help build the legal function of the future.
• High-Impact Work Across Leading Clients: Work directly with ambitious clients across the investment management sector
• Entrepreneurial, High-Performance Culture: Join a team that’s scaling fast, values initiative, and thrives on challenge. You’ll be surrounded by brilliant people who love what they do and push each other to be exceptional.
• Work That Doesn’t Stand Still: No two days are the same. If you’re tired of repetition, hierarchy, or stale environments, this is your chance to lead at pace, with purpose.
• Team: Our team includes former GCs, top-tier law firm alumni, and rising legal stars, united by a shared mission to build the legal function of the future.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Funds lawyer will work within the team to take lead on a variety of client work, including without limitation:

• financial services regulation;
• funds (mutual, private equity, real estate, hedge and listed);
• distribution and placement;
• investment advice, execution, transition management, overlay;
• custody and administration;
• broker-dealer arrangements;
• trading documentation;
• entity establishment;
• transactional documentation (LPAs, Asset and Share Sale Agreements, term sheets, DD etc);
• corporate lending;
• commercial contracts;
• legal research; and
• writing legal articles

The right candidate will also be adept at:

• building and managing client relationships;
• working collaboratively to deliver quality work to clients; and
• driving strategy to contribute to the success the firm

Must-have criteria for this role:

• holding a current practising certificate;
• law degree in Ireland;
• At least 3+ years’ legal work experience in the jurisdiction you hold a practising certificate;
• English language proficiency;
• Independent, resourceful, and confident with great problem-solving skills;
• Adept at building relationships internally and externally;
• Strong interpersonal skills, business sense, and professionalism to communicate with all levels of management, staff and clients located in different jurisdictions;
• Proactive, able to take the initiative and anticipate the firm’s and client’s needs;
• Ability to work effectively with a range of personality types and seniority levels;
• Highly motivated self-starter with a history of pushing for deadline-driven results;
• Lead and be one step ahead, constantly thinking about what needs to be done next to improve efficiency for the team and our clients;
• Ability to work in an environment requiring attention to detail and high levels of accuracy;
• Ability to work autonomously where required, meet deadlines and handle queries from inside and outside the company;
• A MacBook laptop as we operate a BYOA(pple) policy to allow for maximum agility