General information
Creation Date: 03-Jul-2026
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Type: Full time
Ref #: 1234573151
Description & Requirements
Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Location: One of our European Offices
Type: Permanent
About the Team:
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our legal team in Europe.
About the role:
You will be a trusted senior adviser to stakeholders across the LSM Europe Region, providing high-quality, pragmatic legal guidance on complex insurance, commercial, regulatory and strategic matters. You will be an all-round senior commercial counsel, with a particular emphasis on insurance distribution, policy wordings and commercial contracts.
Key responsibilities
- Provide clear, commercial and risk-based legal advice on day-to-day matters and strategic projects.
- Legal lead on complex, cross-functional matters, coordinating SME input and managing external counsel where required.
- Act as a senior escalation point within Legal and help embed effective ways of working (playbooks, templates, contracting positions, escalation triggers and matter management) through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
- Partner with the wider Legal team, Governance/Company Secretarial and other stakeholders to support efficient, well-governed operations within an international group environment and ensure cross-regional matters are handled consistently.
Policy wordings
- Review and negotiate policy wordings and related documentation.
- Support product development and ensure alignment with legal, regulatory and underwriting requirements.
- Provide legal support in relation to multinational insurance programmes.
Commercial, distribution and business contracting
- Advise on distribution and delegated authority arrangements, including TOBAs and related terms.
- Advise on a broad range of operational and business services contracts and support strategic partnerships and new initiatives, ensuring proportionate risk allocation and governance.
Insurance and regulatory support
- Provide legal input on matters with insurance market/regulatory dimensions (e.g. distribution arrangements, delegated authority, operational resilience and outsourcing expectations).
- Monitor legal, regulatory and market developments relevant to LSM and support the business in implementing change in partnership with relevant stakeholders.
Disputes (non-insurance claims) and investigations
- Support the management of non-claims disputes and contentious matters, including assessing legal risk, developing resolution strategies and managing external counsel as necessary.
- Support internal investigations and responses to regulatory enquiries.
Other
- Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to LSM's commitment to placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest and Whistleblowing.
What the ideal candidate will have:
- Qualified lawyer with appropriate professional qualifications in at least one major jurisdiction in which Liberty operates in Continental Europe.
- Strong practical experience in the insurance sector across multiple lines of business; expert knowledge of insurance law and regulations in the EU.
- Fluent in English and German or Dutch, both spoken and written; fluency in another language of the Region is a plus.
- Strong analytical and drafting skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and aptitude for collaboration within a multidisciplinary and multicultural team.
- Commercial, pragmatic judgement with the ability to explain risk clearly and influence outcomes.
- Strong organisational skills and prioritisation; able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, international environment.
- Proactive, collaborative approach.
About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)
Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.
Our people are key to our success. That is why "Put People First" is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:
- Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
- Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
- Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
- A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.
For more information, please follow the links below:
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/diversity-and-inclusion