Legal Counsel

Job Title Legal Counsel

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

The Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement (LRE) team is responsible for managing the Bank's contentious legal matters. As a member of this team, you will serve as a key-contributor overseeing and providing legal advice on litigation disputes, regulatory enforcement investigations and pre-litigation matters. This role will require interaction with multiple internal and external stakeholders, collaboration across functions, management and development of strategy on a variety of complex litigations and regulatory enforcement matters, including instructing and overseeing external counsel, briefing and advising internal senior stakeholders and advising and supporting on internal investigations.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Directing the conduct of civil litigation and regulatory enforcement matters

• Instructing and supervising outside counsel, serving as a primary interface between outside counsel and the business, overseeing the locating and collection of relevant documentary evidence and conducting interviews

• Reporting to and advising senior management

• Working with other members of the Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement team globally, e.g. on cross border matters.

• Coordinating with other functions including Comms, AFC and Regulatory Management

• Advising other functions on contentious issues including the internal investigations function, transactional legal teams and AFC.

Your skills and experience

• Significant experience at major law firm, in-house legal department and/or regulatory authorities, all involving oversight of civil litigation and regulatory enforcement matters (government investigations, criminal or regulatory matters)

• Qualified to practice in England and Wales

• Excellent writing and presentation skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work well in a team and create and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders

• Must be able to work independently and an organised self-starter

• Experience working for or with financial institutions is a plus

How we’ll support you

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on [email protected] to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.