Markets Legal Counsel

Job Description:

• The successful candidate will be a member in the Markets MCC team (‘Markets MCC team member”) and will be responsible for:

Responsibilities

• The Markets MCC team’s provision of legal transactional support to the APAC Markets businesses based on internal guidance and standard operating procedures, including:

• Review and support of wholesale financial transactional documentation including credit, trading, TOBs, prime brokerage, derivatives and regulatory driven documentation;

• Review of  constitutional documents, to ensure that all the requisite corporate consents and capacity and authority requirements are in place prior to finalization of agreements and subsequent commencement of business or trading;

• Providing support on global documentation or remediation projects;

• Providing gap analysis and summary of transaction and client specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals to identify discrepancies, escalation mechanisms and managing remediation exercises;

• Entering and managing data from standardized or negotiated agreements into internal systems and assisting in the maintenance of databases relating to firm-wide initiatives; and

• Drafting, reviewing and finalizing documentation including notices, consents, MOUs, LOIs and RFPs, etc. in accordance with existing templates.

Qualifications and Experience 

• JD or educational equivalent required. Attorney candidates must be in compliance with all relevant licensing requirements including the requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment.

• A minimum of 2-7  years PQE  in professional practice and/or in in-house experience covering Markets related work in a comparable financial institution;

• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills;

• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to interact with senior business personnel and stakeholders in other functions;