Job Description:
Job Title
Financing and Lending Lawyer
Location
London
Corporate Title
Director
The Global Emerging Markets and Global Financing and Credit Trading businesses sit within the Investment Bank division of the Bank. These business cover many forms of financing and lending including, inter alia , sovereign lending, securitisation, infrastructure and energy, transportation, commercial real estate, fund financing, direct lending, Islamic finance, strategic equity transactions, structured and complex derivatives and repos, as well as distressed products and flow derivative products.
You will be asked to assist across a number of these business lines, but will primarily focus on sovereign lending, fund financing, securitisation, commercial real estate and strategic equity transactions (e.g. margin lending). The role will involve the legal and regulatory risk management of new and existing transactions, many of which are international and complex.
What we'll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That's why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Providing robust legal advice to the Global Emerging Markets and Global Financing and Credit Trading businesses on all aspects of their transactions from structuring/design to completion and lifecycle events
- Advise in relation to reputational risk
- Advise in relation to regulatory change which may impact the business
- Instruct and manage external counsel appropriately and cost effectively
- Troubleshoot, by dealing with defaults, restructurings, disputes, and materialisation of legal and commercial risk.
- Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of finance and other documentation
Your skills and experience
- Qualified lawyer, with significant post-qualification experience (12+ years PQE)
- A team player who is flexible and commercially minded
- Willing to tackle new products and knowledgeable in relation to current regulatory regimes
- A proficient and broad technical knowledge in banking and finance
- Excellent communication skills
How we'll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunities' employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)
About us
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Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
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