Digital Banking/Investments Commercial Contracts Lawyer – Associate / Assistant Vice President

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm seeks a Digital Banking/Investments Commercial Contracts Lawyer – Assistant Vice President to support innovative technology initiatives. You will negotiate and structure key agreements while navigating legal complexities in a high-paced environment. Ideal candidates will bring extensive experience in drafting commercial contracts, particularly in compliance with regulatory frameworks.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with PQE in commercial contractual matters.
• Extensive transactional experience across geographies, focusing on technology agreements.
• Familiarity with regulatory issues in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, and negotiate various technology-related agreements.
• Advise on legal risks in negotiations.
• Support strategic investments and acquisitions.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Communication

Drafting Skills

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Job description

Legal is at the heart of digital disruption and the new International Consumer Business (ICB). The ICB is home to many of the firm’s most innovative and cutting-edge initiatives, including new products and services, acquisitions, investments, partnerships, and collaborations.

As a Digital Banking/Investments Commercial Contracts Lawyer – Assistant Vice President within the ICB Legal team, you will support the ICB across all areas of commercial contracting, including agreements with third-party suppliers in the UK, Germany, and globally.

You will bring your experience in negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts to support some of the firm’s most exciting strategic digital and technology initiatives, including payments. You will be a solution-oriented, commercially minded, customer-focused lawyer, used to working in an agile environment and passionate about building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team.

Job responsibilities

• Structure, draft, and negotiate agreements and relationships with vendors, partners, customers, and other third parties related to technology, including but not limited to supplier agreements, partnerships, reseller agreements, SaaS agreements, platform agreements, connectivity, API, and cloud services contracts.
• Advise the business and stakeholders on legal risks associated with the negotiation of commercial agreements.
• Provide timely and pragmatic general corporate, transactional, and commercial legal support relevant to a new digital business.
• Source and coordinate legal advice across legal functions outside of the ICB.
• Support strategic investments and acquisitions from a technology and commercial contracts perspective.
• Engage and instruct outside counsel when appropriate.
• Support other special projects, including payments.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Qualified lawyer with relevant PQE experienced in handling a variety of commercial contractual matters, either in-house or in private practice.
• Extensive transactional experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements across geographies, with a focus in Europe, including complex global technology agreements such as partnerships, reseller, software licensing/support, SaaS, PaaS, outsourcing, data, and cloud agreements.
• Familiarity with global regulatory issues relevant to the use of technology in financial services, including cloud, outsourcing, and third-party risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and engagement skills.
• Ability to work on complex legal issues in a high-volume, fast-paced environment with multiple responsibilities, managing a varied and changing caseload.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, and drafting skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently on demanding legal issues and tight deadlines.
• Experience negotiating agreements in compliance with EBA, FCA, and PRA outsourcing rules.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with or willingness to learn about cybersecurity, technology controls, information security, data privacy, and protection, and keep up to date with regulatory changes.