Qualified Lawyer (Cantonese)

Montpellier Resourcing; West End; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a highly motivated Legal Specialist for a global financial institution in the UK. This role requires fully qualified lawyers with fluent Cantonese skills, tasked with managing complex legal documentation and compliance across multiple jurisdictions. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model of 4 days in the office and 1 day at home.

Benefits

Excellent bonus

Benefits package

Qualifications

• Candidates MUST be fully qualified lawyers.
• Candidates MUST have fluent Cantonese language skills.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements governing loan documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, review, and negotiation of loan documentation.
• Oversee security documentation ensuring proper registration and perfection.
• Manage external legal counsel for cross-border compliance.
• Provide ongoing legal support for loan amendments and waivers.
• Ensure all legal conditions are met before funds are utilized.

Skills

Fluent Cantonese

Complex Legal Drafting

Negotiation

Regulatory Compliance

Communication

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Job description

Up to £90,000 plus excellent bonus and benefits

Hybrid – 4 days in office, 1 day at home

Are you a commercially-minded, qualified lawyer seeking a pivotal role in a global financial institution?

We are seeking a highly motivated Legal Specialist to join a leading international banking role. This role is perfect for a lawyer who excels at high‑stakes risk management and wants to leverage their Cantonese language skills to manage complex, cross‑border financial transactions from inception to completion.

This is a unique opportunity to act as the primary legal gateway for large‑scale corporate lending activity, ensuring all documentation is robust, enforceable, and compliant across multiple jurisdictions.

Candidates MUST be fully qualified lawyers and must have fluent Cantonese language skills

Duties for Qualified Lawyer to include:

The core focus of this role is to perfect, enforce, and maintain all loan and security documentation in full compliance with internal and external regulatory standards, ensuring seamless lending execution.

• Complex Legal Drafting & Negotiation: Lead the preparation, review, and negotiation of complex bilateral and syndicated primary loan documentation. This involves adapting and drafting core transaction agreements (including LMA-based facility agreements and inter‑creditor arrangements).
• Security & Collateral Management: Oversee all security documentation (debentures, charges, assignments), ensuring every piece of collateral is properly registered and legally perfected to safeguard the bank’s interest globally.
• Regulatory & Cross‑Border Compliance: Appoint and manage external legal counsel across international jurisdictions, ensuring all legal opinions confirm the validity and enforceability of documents for foreign entities prior to loan drawdown.
• Post-Close Transaction Support: Manage ongoing legal matters, including providing documentation support for consents, waivers, loan amendments, and restatements of existing facility agreements.
• Internal Controls & Execution: Strictly manage the Loan Drawdown Checklist (LDSD), ensuring all legal conditions precedent are satisfied before funds are utilized, and manage the accurate release of securities upon final credit approval.

Requirements for the Qualified Lawyer to include:

• Candidates MUST be qualified lawyers
• Candidates MUST have fluent Cantonese language skills
• Candidates will ideally have financial services experience.
• Prior experience in lending involving property (investment and development) as security, and familiarity with perfection and registration procedures, is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of internal standards and external regulatory requirements governing loan documentation and perfection.
• Excellent communication skills required to effectively liaise with lending staff, legal counsel, clients, and counterparties throughout complex documentation processes.

This vacancy is being advertised by Montpellier Resourcing Associates Limited. The services advertised by Montpellier Resourcing Associates Limited are those of an Employment Agency.