Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Transactions Legal Counsel

Barclays Capital; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Capital seeks a senior legal professional to oversee compliance for principal / own-account merger and acquisition activities, minority investments, and corporate reorganisations. You will guide due diligence, deal structuring, and drafting, while representing the bank in related proceedings and ensuring ongoing regulatory alignment.

You will also lead training on legal and regulatory requirements and identify emerging risks to strengthen controls across the function.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills across transactional documents.
• Ability to identify and manage legal risks and regulatory changes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement best practice legal strategies to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Provide legal advice to mergers, minority investments, and corporate reorganisations on due diligence, deal structuring, and drafting.
• Represent the bank in litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations related to M&A and reorganisations.
• Draft and review acquisition and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, and other transactional documents.
• Conduct legal research to stay updated on changes affecting M&A and reorganisations.
• Develop and deliver training on legal and regulatory requirements for relevant teams.

Skills

Mergers & Acquisitions

Regulatory compliance

Contract negotiation

Legal research

Training delivery

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the roleTo ensure that the principal / own-account merger and acquisition and minority investment activities in addition to corporate reorganisations are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risks associated with these activities.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to identify and manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the bank's mergers and acquisitions, minority investment and structuring teams on legal matters including due diligence, deal structuring, negotiation and drafting of legal documents and other transactional matters.
• Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to mergers and acquisitions, minority investments or reorganisations such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations (together with Litigation).
• Creation, negotiation and review of legal documents such as acquisition and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholder and other investment agreements and other transactional documents to ensure compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations that may impact the bank's mergers and acquisitions, minority investment and reorganisation activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to mergers and acquisitions, minority investment and reorganisations activities.
• Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escape breaches of policies/procedures..

If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..

OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operat