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Senior Legal Counsel, ETF – Hong Kong – Join Invesco’s APAC ETF team and shape global ETF strategies.
Work in a hybrid environment with flexible PTO and comprehensive benefits. Full‑time senior role.
About Invesco
As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.
What's in it for you?
- Generous annual leave plus flexible paid time off
- Hybrid work schedule
- Learning and development programs
- Health & wellbeing benefits
- Parental Leave benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan (if applicable in your region)
About the Role
- Acting as the main point of contact for all legal aspects of Invesco’s APAC ETF businesses, including local ETFs and cross-listings
- Serving as the APAC regional legal representative within Invesco’s global ETF legal function, partnering closely with the EMEA and Americas ETF legal representatives to ensure globally aligned standards and coordinated cross‑regional support
- Drafting, reviewing and updating prospectuses, fund documents and service provider agreements; preparing and submitting applications for regulatory authorisation and listings
- Advising on ETF structuring and launch in compliance with local and international legal frameworks
- Acting as primary liaison with regulators and exchanges for ETF-related approvals, inquiries, and ongoing legal matters
- Collaborate with the APAC Legal team and the wider global Legal group on APAC ETF matters, ensuring legal analysis, documentation, and regulatory approaches are tailored to local requirements and aligned with business objectives
- Partnering with the APAC and global ETF business teams including product development; product platform management; sales; compliance; risk; capital markets and portfolio management, and providing advice to internal stakeholders on ETF-related legal and regulatory issues
- Monitoring and advising on regulatory developments in the APAC region affecting the APAC ETF businesses, including marketing/distribution of the ETFs in local markets
- Participating in cross‑departmental projects and key regulatory initiatives
- Liaising with other departments and external counsel
- Identifying and advising on the effective management of legal risk to the Invesco APAC ETF business and implementing, coordinating and managing commensurate internal controls to achieve these outcomes
- Participating in other projects, workstreams, and initiatives as part of the APAC Legal Team, as required
Requirement for the Role
- Strong academic background and legal training. Qualified to practise law in one or more jurisdictions
- Qualified solicitor in Hong Kong with 5 years’ of PQE or more in a law firm or in an in‑house role, with strong ETF/funds/asset management background
- Direct experience engaging with regulators and exchanges in APAC markets
- Some knowledge of UCITS regulations helpful but not essential
- Prior experience advising on cross‑border ETF passporting regimes is a plus
- Fluent in English and Chinese, both spoken and written
- Liaising in a proactive, problem‑solving manner with other functional areas on legal matters
- Strong stakeholder management with regulators, exchanges, and external counsel.
- Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in product development and distribution
- Ability to quickly grasp and solve complex problems
- Ability to deal with and manage change in a fluid environment
- Ability to examine issues from multiple perspectives
- Optimistic, positive attitude; a “can‑do” approach
- Display a high degree of interpersonal and political savvy, tact and diplomacy with all constituencies
- Highly motivated self‑starter and team player
- Strong sense of urgency
- Unquestionable integrity
How to Apply
Apply for the role directly at Invesco Careers : Careers at Invesco | APAC .
About Invesco:
https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html
https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html
https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html
At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full‑time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least four days a week, with one day working outside an Invesco office. Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable local laws governing non‑discrimination in employment. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our personal data policy and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within twelve weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. All related information will be kept in our file for future recruitment purposes. When there are vacancies in our subsidiary or associate companies, we may transfer the application to them for consideration of employment. Under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, job applicants have a right to request access to, and to request correction of, Personal Data in relation to the application. If job applicants wish to exercise these rights, they should contact the Human Resources department.