Career Opportunities
What our professional partners say
“We are looking to develop a model for our law firm that sets us apart, and that emphasizes the independence and strength that comes from being part of a network that is renowned in France and abroad, across 150 countries. We are a multidisciplinary firm when it comes to our law practice – combining legal, tax and employment law, and working across different sectors. As such, we complement E&Y’s consulting and financial capabilities. Finally, at E&Y, the way we practice law on behalf of financiers happens to mirror what students are taught at the Dauphine Law Institute (I2D)!
This balance of multiple capabilities, combined with our curiosity, and our constant pursuit of excellence and innovation – which is essential to keeping us one step ahead and proving ourselves worthy of the confidence our clients and collaborators place in us – is what draws us to the Financial Law apprenticeship program.
We chose this training program to strengthen the skills of our Financial Service Office teams – which are comprised of specialists in Law and Finance around the world working on behalf of EY for the 20 most prestigious financial institutions in the world – because it demonstrates that professional experience combined with learning enables you to progress, to gain experience in International Financial Law, and to combine knowledge of both strategy and compliance.”
Stéphane Baller - Partner at EY Law, initiator of the partnership with the 259 Program and Associate Professor of Economics at Paris 2 Panthéon Assas
Job roles can be found within the following sectors:
- Counsel: Corporate Lawyer, Private Equity; Structured Finance; Capital Markets (Equities, Debt, Derivatives); Project Finance and Acquisitions.
- Issuance of securities: drawing up contractual documentation, knowledge of financial products required, links with regulatory authorities and the stock market
- Mergers and Acquisitions: implementing legal structures for companies, knowledge of competition law relating to merger control required
- Tax Law: analyzing all the securities transactions made by a bank or company from a tax law angle, solid knowledge of financial products required, overseeing the fulfilment of the bank or company’s tax obligations, monitoring changes to legislation.
- Compliance: lawyer within a bank’s Risk division (complying with internal standards and internal regulatory procedures, ongoing monitoring of processes, liaising with regulatory authorities such as the AMF, the Banking Commission and TRACFIN).
- UCITS: implementing company structures necessary for UCITS, drawing up regulatory documentation for the AMF, knowledge of financial products and the code of ethics required.
- Securitization: implementing company structures necessary for securitization transactions, liaising with regulatory authorities.