Vice President, Counsel - Guggenheim Partners
About The Position
Guggenheim is seeking an experienced Vice President, Counsel to serve as firmwide privacy and cybersecurity counsel and provide support for litigation, investigations, enforcement, compliance monitoring, and trademark and brand protection. Reporting to a managing director in the Legal Group, this role will support a collaborative corporate-level team across the daily legal matters of a growing, global, diversified financial services business. The position calls for independent legal judgment and drafting ability, broad legal experience, and willingness to develop expertise across additional areas. The position is currently remote, with occasional reporting to the firm’s Chicago office. Travel to other locations may be required as needed.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Active bar admission in good standing.
- At least 5 years of relevant legal experience.
- Ability to travel to other locations as needed.
- Independent legal judgment and drafting ability.
- Clear and effective communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, independence, and ability to critically analyze sophisticated commercial arrangements and transactions.
- Ability to manage deadline-driven transactional work and recurring compliance obligations, maintain attention to detail, and prioritize issues appropriately.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, collaborative approach and responsiveness to internal business partners and stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- In-house or financial services experience.
- Substantive familiarity with US state privacy laws and UK/EU GDPR, including cross-border transfer mechanics.
- Experience advising on data incident response, including assessing issue scope and notification obligations across jurisdictions.
- Exposure to litigation and regulatory investigation or enforcement practice, including hands-on e-discovery and enterprise email search platform experience.
- Exposure to, or willingness to learn, political contribution and pay-to-play pre-clearance regimes and other relevant regulatory compliance rules.
- Experience working within an organization distributed across geographic locations.
- Ability to build templates, playbooks, and processes from the ground up.
- Exceptional legal judgment, including sound instincts about what to decide and what to escalate.
- Ability to work across legal disciplines in a lean, fast-moving legal department and create written procedures and document templates where processes currently rely on institutional memory.
Responsibilities
- Manage the privacy and cybersecurity program and ensure compliance with requirements in the US, UK, EU, and other jurisdictions.
- Negotiate data processing agreements and privacy and security terms with vendors, and support business and IT inquiries.
- Conduct security and privacy reviews and act as legal lead in incident response alongside the CISO, including scoping incidents, determining notification obligations, and directing next steps.
- Manage or provide legal support to the Chief Legal Officer on disputes, regulatory matters, investigations, enforcement, arbitration, and litigation.
- Conduct document reviews and e-discovery searches, and review filings and other documents.
- Conduct reviews and administer the firm's sanctions screening program and pre-approval of activity involving higher-risk jurisdictions.
- Review and approve pay-to-play and political contribution pre-clearance requests vetted by outside counsel.
- Manage the firm-wide trademark portfolio, including filings, jurisdiction strategy, renewals, maintenance deadlines, and related issues in coordination with outside counsel.
- Provide day-to-day legal advice and negotiate and draft a range of documents.
- Draft, revise, and maintain policies and procedures for relevant practice areas, and develop forms, templates, and playbooks.
- Serve as a generalist attorney resource on legal, compliance, and business matters and projects.
- Develop subject matter expertise in additional areas of law and regulatory compliance as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
