Legal Counsel

Standard Chartered; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking an experienced lawyer to join their team in London. This role offers a chance to support Global Banking businesses with a focus on Commercial Real Estate Finance and structured finance products. The ideal candidate will bring at least 3 years of PQE and experience in cross-border transactions. The position promises a dynamic team environment and the opportunity to engage with various stakeholders in the UK and Europe.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years PQE experience working in a top tier law firm.
• Proven experience advising, negotiating and drafting legal documents.
• Knowledge of regulations impacting financial products.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to UK and Europe CREF and the wider GB businesses.
• Draft and negotiate legal documents for GB transactions.
• Manage external counsel on transactions.

Skills

English law qualified

Experience with UK and European CREF lending transactions

Structured finance knowledge

Commercial acumen

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor of Law

Job description

Job Summary

We are currently looking for an experienced lawyer to join our team supporting our UK and Europe Global Banking (GB) businesses, with a focus on our Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF) lending business and Structured Finance (SF) products.

The role will be either Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel depending on experience / PQE and will be based in London, reporting to the Head of Legal, CIB Lending for UK and Europe.

Global Banking includes the following business teams: CREF, Fund Finance, Leveraged and Acquisition Finance, Private Credit, and Financing Solutions. They offer a range of syndicated and bilateral lending solutions as well as structured financing solutions including Loan on Loan / Back Leverage and securitisation structures.

You will be joining a dynamic, collaborative and solutions orientated team, working on high profile and complex transactions.

The candidate will work closely with various stakeholders in the UK and Europe as well as with Legal colleagues in the wider SCB network, where necessary.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to the UK and Europe CREF and the wider GB businesses as well as related stakeholders;
• Advising on, drafting and negotiating legal documents for GB transactions including engaging with and advising relevant internal stakeholders;
• Managing external counsel on transactions including as to costs, quality and responsiveness of advice;
• Provide legal advice and training with respect to new GB products and initiatives for the UK / Europe;
• Keep up to date with relevant changes in law and regulation and assist on the implementation of regulatory reform;
• Identify, assess, manage, monitor, mitigate and report legal risks across GB in the UK / Europe;
• Support the GB business teams with immaterial disputes that may arise from time to time;
• Support the Legal teams in other regions of the SCB network where needed;
• Support and implement the vision, strategy and direction for the wider SCB Legal team;
• Support the priorities and agenda for GB businesses in the UK / Europe as well as their wider Group priorities and agenda;
• Assist the Head of Legal, CIB Lending for Europe in:
  • representing Legal in the governance of GB related issues;
  • ensuring the effective management of legal matters across the UK and Europe GB businesses.

Skills and Experience

• English law qualified;
• Minimum 3+ years PQE with experience working in a top tier law firm. Experience working in a financial institution also desirable;
• Proven experience advising, negotiating and / or drafting:
  • Cross border bilateral and syndicated (LMA) loans – experience on UK and European CREF lending transactions is particularly relevant; and
  • Structured finance facilities, in particular Loan on Loan / Back Leverage and securitisation structures also strongly preferred;
  • Experience of secondary loan trading and fronting structures preferred but not essential.
• Knowledge of regulations directly impacting the above products (for example UK / EU Securities Regulations, UK Real Estate Laws and Regulations);
• Commercial acumen and the ability to understand and evaluate business requirements in managing legal risk;
• Willingness to work in a team environment whilst also working autonomously and managing your workload efficiently;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.