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

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking an Assistant General Counsel to support its Trade & Working Capital business. This role requires providing legal advice on export financing and related tasks. The ideal candidate will be a qualified lawyer with over 5 years of legal experience, strong negotiation skills, and a background in lending and finance. You will play a key role in drafting contracts, improving legal processes, and collaborating with legal teams across jurisdictions. Competitive package offered in an innovative work environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with +5 years of post-qualification experience.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal analytical skills.
• Experience in trade finance and receivables financing.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support for export finance and trade.
• Draft and negotiate contracts with customers and export agencies.
• Contribute to efficiency projects in legal processes.

Skills

Legal support

Drafting and negotiation

Legal analysis

Lending and finance experience

Experience in export agency financing

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified lawyer from common law jurisdiction or EU

Job description

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;
• Instructing and working with outside counsel.

Qualifications

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

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.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.