Export Agency Finance and Trade - Assistant General Counsel - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is looking for an experienced Assistant General Counsel in London. You will provide legal support for export finance and trade services. Candidates should have 5-15 years of experience, strong negotiation, and drafting skills. The role involves advising on transactions and coordinating with legal counterparts on various legal issues.

Qualifications

• 5-15 years of post-qualification legal experience.
• Experience in lending and finance.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary legal support and advice on product-specific queries.
• Review, draft and negotiate contracts with customers and export agencies.
• Contribute to projects improving operational processes.
• Coordinate with local, regional and global legal counterparts.
• Instruct and work with outside counsel.

Skills

Legal analytical skills

Strong drafting

Negotiation skills

Education

Qualified lawyer from a common law jurisdiction or an EU member state

Job description

Overview

J.P. Morgan is the world’s largest bank and amongst the most trusted and innovative financial service providers in banking and finance. Through J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank, and its Payments business line in particular, we provide international export agency finance and trade & working capital solutions, and continue to invest in future-growth initiatives, such as digitization, blockchain, AI & ML.

As an Export Agency Finance and Trade - Assistant General Counsel - Vice President in the legal department supporting the firm’s Trade & Working Capital business sub-vertical, you will provide legal support and advice to its export agency finance, structured working capital, supply chain finance and core trade businesses across all EMEA jurisdictions, in particular, working with leading Export Credit Agencies and multilateral agencies to provide export finance solutions to corporations and governmental institutions worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Providing primary legal support and advice to the businesses on a wide range of product-specific queries, transactions and non-transactional matters relating to export finance as well as other trade & working capital products and services;
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts with the Bank’s customers and export agencies;
• Contributing to projects that improve operational processes to increase the efficiency and scalability of legal support;
• Liaising and coordinating with local, regional and global legal counter-parts and functional partners on legal issues; and
• Instructing and working with outside counsel.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Qualified lawyer from a common law jurisdiction or an EU member state with between 5 and 15 years of post-qualification legal experience;
• Experience in lending and finance; and
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills.

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience supporting export agency financings across different industries such as aviation, infrastructure and project finance deals, shipping, etc.;
• Experience in trade finance (including letters of credit / demand guarantees) and receivables financing;
• Experience working with business and control functions stakeholders across geographies.