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title: 'Counsel at Assured Guaranty'
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# Counsel at Assured Guaranty

- **Company:** Assured Guaranty
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/assuredguaranty/jobs/8860869002?gh_jid=8860869002

## Job description

Position Summary

Leading financial guarantee insurance company is seeking a Counsel to provide legal advice and assistance on international structured finance and infrastructure finance transactions, including identifying potential legal issues and risks in new deals and formulating appropriate solutions within AGUK’s legal risk tolerance and providing legal advice in connection with amendments, waivers and consents to existing transactions.

Position Description

- Support the deal origination teams responsible for international structured finance and infrastructure transactions in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of such transactions including reviewing documents and legal advice provided by third parties to AGUK and attending meetings and constructively contributing to the identification, assessment and mitigation of legal risk in the design of an AGUK guarantee.
- Work closely with the credit team responsible for vetting the transactions in identifying and potentially structuring around credit-related and other issues including reviewing the credit memorandum for new deals and participating in the credit committees.
- Assist the surveillance team with the ongoing monitoring of closed transactions (including assisting with transaction amendments, waivers and consents).
- Manage and ensure the effectiveness of external legal support where appropriate.
- Liasing with AG Services Head of Legal Transaction Services for review on key legal conclusions before being finalized for use by AGUK.
- Attending and providing general or specific legal transactions advice to AGUK executive committees, senior managers and Board committees as required.
- Answer any legal concerns or questions that AGUK have as early as practical and within a reasonable time.

Candidate Background

- Qualified lawyer in England and Wales with at least 8 years of experience in a leading financial services law firm
- Strong experience with complex transactions, with a focus on infrastructure or structured finance
- Sensitive to legal and commercial risks, including bankruptcy issues
- Excellent academic qualifications
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Organized self-starter who is able to work independently but seeks out views of legal and credit colleagues when required
- Ability to prioritize issues and manage outside counsel is critical
- Ability to challenge commercial thinking and deliver effective solution
- Strong presentation and negotiation skills
- Willingness to take on varied tasks

## Compensation

Compensation will depend on various factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience and credentials, salary expectations of applicable candidates, and other applicable market conditions. This position also provides applicable employee benefits, as well as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus and long-term incentive awards.

## About Assured Guaranty

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Assured Guaranty is the leading provider of financial guaranty insurance, primarily for municipal, public infrastructure, and structured finance transactions, and also participates in asset management through its ownership interest in Sound Point Capital Management.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: AGO)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA (holding company domiciled in Bermuda)
- **Founded**: 1988 (as Assured Guaranty Corp.)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial guaranty insurance, municipal bond insurance, structured finance, reinsurance, asset management
- **Target customers**: Issuers (municipalities, infrastructure sponsors, structured finance originators) and investors (bondholders seeking credit enhancement)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To protect debt holders from payment defaults and help issuers obtain cost-efficient access to capital through an unconditional and irrevocable guaranty.

## Products & Services
- **Municipal Bond Insurance**: Unconditional guaranty of timely principal and interest payments on U.S. municipal bonds, reducing borrowing costs for issuers and providing credit protection for investors.
- **Public Infrastructure Financing**: Guarantees for large-scale infrastructure projects (e.g., airports, transportation, utilities) in the U.S. and select international markets.
- **Structured Finance Guarantees**: Credit enhancement for securitizations of commercial loans, life insurance portfolios, consumer and commercial receivables, and fund finance transactions.
- **Reinsurance**: Financial guaranty reinsurance to other insurers through Assured Guaranty Re Ltd., the world’s largest financial guaranty reinsurer.
- **Asset Management**: Ownership interest in Sound Point Capital Management, LP, which manages credit-oriented investment strategies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided sources; consult financial data platforms for current market cap.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – Not disclosed in provided materials; public filings (10-K) would contain this data.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sound Point Capital Management, LP (asset management affiliate); major municipal bond market participants.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Merged Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (AGM) into Assured Guaranty Inc. (AG) effective August 1, 2024, simplifying corporate structure.
  - Continues to write policies without interruption for over three decades, the only bond insurer to do so.
  - Maintains a significant insured portfolio of U.S. and non-U.S. public finance transactions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Uninterrupted track record**: The only bond insurer that has paid claims and continued writing policies without interruption for 30 years, demonstrating resilience through multiple business cycles.
- **Unconditional and irrevocable guaranty**: Provides investors with downgrade protection, market value support, and enhanced liquidity.
- **Experienced credit selection and surveillance**: Rigorous underwriting and ongoing monitoring of insured portfolios.
- **Global scale**: Operations in the U.S., UK, Europe, Bermuda, Asia, and Australia, with the world’s largest financial guaranty reinsurer.

## Strategic Focus
- **Maintain financial strength**: Preserve capital and ratings to support policyholder obligations.
- **Expand public finance and infrastructure**: Capitalize on municipal bond market demand and large infrastructure projects (e.g., New Terminal One at JFK).
- **Grow structured finance**: Develop credit enhancement tools for fund finance and custom products for institutional asset portfolios.
- **Leverage asset management**: Continue partnership with Sound Point Capital Management to diversify revenue.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collegial and collaborative environment with analytical challenges similar to an investment bank but within a conservative credit culture focused on risk management.
- **Work policy**: Primarily in-office; most of ~360 employees work in midtown New York, with additional offices in San Francisco, Asheville, London, Paris, Sydney, Singapore, and Bermuda.
- **Compensation and benefits**: Competitive packages including life and health insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement savings with company match, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, paid family leave, employee assistance program, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, fertility and family planning resources, child/elder/pet care assistance, health/fitness benefits, and charitable gift matching.
- **Professional development**: Formal and informal training, mentoring program (one-to-one and group circles), leadership and communication skills development, tuition reimbursement.
- **Inclusion and engagement**: Five Employee Resource Groups (African Heritage, Asian and Pacific Islander, Women, Working Parents, Young Professionals); employee-led Belonging and Culture Committee and Corporate Philanthropy Committee.
- **Equal opportunity**: Strong ethical standards and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

## Sources
1. [assuredguaranty.com – About Us](https://assuredguaranty.com/about-us)
2. [assuredguaranty.com – Careers](https://assuredguaranty.com/careers)
3. [assuredguaranty.com – Current Openings](https://assuredguaranty.com/careers/current-openings)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io – Assured Guaranty](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/assuredguaranty)
5. [assuredguaranty.com – Homepage](https://assuredguaranty.com/)

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