Legal Counsel

Morgan McKinley; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Morgan McKinley is seeking a Legal Counsel for a Global Bank in London. You will work with business teams on a broad range of transactional legal work, identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks, and coordinate with external counsel where appropriate.

The role requires reviewing and negotiating documentation, including opinions and conditions precedents, and providing input on new product approvals from a legal standpoint. Previous in-house banking legal experience is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• Transactional banking experience preferred.
• Experience drafting term sheets and facility agreements.
• Experience reviewing product approvals from a legal perspective.

Aufgaben

• Provide transactional legal advice and execution support for banking transactions.
• Draft and update term sheets, facility agreements and related documentation; review and negotiate as needed.
• Review and provide input on new product approval requests from a legal perspective.

Jobbeschreibung

Our client, a Global Bank, are looking for a Legal Counsel to join their Legal team based in London.

Responsibilities below:

• Transactional advice and execution: Working closely with business teams on their transaction portfolios by advising on a wide variety of transactional legal work; identifying legal and regulatory risks/issues in transactions, advising on potential solutions/mitigants to identified issues, assisting in negotiations, coordinating and reviewing documentation (including related legal opinions and conditions precedent), with appropriate supervision and involving external counsel where appropriate.
• Documentation: Drafting term sheets, facility agreements, trade finance documentation, secondary trading documentation and related amendments based on internal precedents, negotiating and managing bilateral transactions; preparing and updating templates as required.
• New Product Approval: Reviewing and providing input from a legal perspective into new product approval requests.

Previous experience within in house Legal Banking roles is preferred.