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Legal Counsel (hybrid, m/f/d, 80 - 100%)

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
Full-time
On-site
Italy

Your Opportunity

Are you a legally astute professional with a commercial mindset and a strong interest in re/insurance? We are seeking a talented Legal Counsel to join our Corporate Solutions Legal EMEA team and support Swiss Re’s dynamic commercial insurance and reinsurance business.

Based in Milan, this role focuses on providing high-impact legal advice in the area of commercial insurance and reinsurance.

This position reports directly to the Head Legal EMEA for Corporate Solutions.

 

What You Will Do

As a Legal Counsel, you will be a trusted legal partner to Swiss Re's businesses and specifically to the Head Italy Corporate Solutions, providing regulatory and transactional legal support to underwriters and business stakeholders.


Your main responsibilities will include:

  • Analyze and advise on complex regulatory and novel legal issues
  • Draft, negotiate, and advise on insurance policies, reinsurance agreements, and other transactional documents (e.g., collateral agreements)
  • Support the design and implementation of international insurance programs, fronting solutions, and tailored transactions for corporate clients or cedents, including alternative risk transfers
  • Serve as a trusted legal advisor and initial point of contact for our Italian business
  • Act as lead legal advisor on complex cross-border insurance and reinsurance transactions and handle regional legal issues and developments
  • Provide legal support in the negotiation and structuring of distribution agreements
  • Engage with brokers and other intermediaries to ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with Swiss Re's commercial objectives
  • Collaborate across functions – including Compliance, Underwriting, Risk, Finance, and Operations – for a holistic legal approach
  • Support dispute resolution, claims, and policy interpretation as needed
  • Stay abreast of legal trends and advise on evolving regulatory frameworks in Italy and the EU

 

About the Team

You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative legal team of 10 lawyers embedded in the EMEA business of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. We work in a fast-paced, international environment and support both daily operations and strategic transformation projects.

 

About You

We are looking for a legally rigorous yet pragmatic professional who can navigate complex reinsurance and insurance matters with confidence and clarity.


You will bring:

  • Bar admission in Italy (additional European bar admissions a plus)
  • At least 6+ years of post-qualification legal experience, ideally with exposure to reinsurance and insurance law in a law firm or in-house role
  • Deep understanding of Italian insurance and reinsurance regulation; familiarity with broader EU regulatory frameworks a plus
  • Proven experience negotiating and advising on reinsurance and/or complex insurance transactions
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with a collaborative and solution-oriented mindset
  • Excellent communication skills and fluency in Italian and English; other languages (e.g., French, German) are an advantage
  • Ability to balance legal detail with commercial objectives and convey complex legal issues to senior stakeholders clearly
  • A growth mindset, strong work ethic, and willingness to engage in cross-border and cross-functional work

 

Why Join Us?

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. Our Legal EMEA team empowers the business to grow while maintaining high legal and ethical standards.


We offer:

  • An international and inclusive work environment
  • The opportunity to work on impactful legal matters in reinsurance and insurance
  • Flexibility and a hybrid working model
  • A platform to help shape the legal framework of future insurance and reinsurance transactions



For Italy, the base salary range for this position is between EUR 75,000 and EUR 125,000 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers: ​

 

  • the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,​

 

  • the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

 

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.​

 

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

 

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions 

 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

 

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