Senior Legal Counsel

HSBC; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join the UK and Europe Banking CIB Legal team. In this pivotal role, you will lead a specialized team, manage legal risks, and provide expert legal advice while navigating diverse stakeholder interests. This position offers professional development and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Private healthcare for UK-based employees

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme with generous employer contribution

Qualifications

• Experience in financial institutions or top tier private practice.
• Lending specialization essential; leveraged or project finance experience desirable.
• Experience managing a specialized team of lawyers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of credit & lending specialized lawyers.
• Support Global Credit and Lending initiatives/projects.
• Provide commercially sensitive, pragmatic legal support.

Skills

Relationship Management

Legal Advice

Team Management

Education

English Qualified Lawyer

Job description

If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC’s Legal function plays a critical role in supporting the bank’s global operations, managing legal risk, and ensuring the efficient and effective use of external legal resources. We work closely with leading law firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) to secure the best commercial and strategic outcomes for the bank

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join the UK and Europe Banking CIB Legal team. As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that the legal and reputational risks faced by the area of coverage are identified, reported and mitigated. This role will typically report to a Managing Associate General Counsel.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage a team of credit & lending specialised lawyers to support the Global Network Banking, Global Corporates and International Mid Market Coverage teams in HBCE and the HBCE branches with flow lending transactional requirements and all connected client issues/concerns
• Support on Global Credit and Lending initiatives / projects across CIB broadly (including flow and Investment Banking products) including regional and/or global regulatory/transformation or simplification projects.
• Be the accountable lawyer to the Business on legal issues that the Business faces, ensuring commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal support and advice is provided in a cost-effective manner.
• Provide guidance and support to the Business on non-standard legal and reputational risks connected to clients in their segments. You will also be responsible for training, supervising and reviewing the work of the other members of the team and helping to create and update negotiation guidelines, playbooks and other support materials to be used by the team.
• Evaluate and respond to changes in legal and regulatory requirements as they arise and apply to Credit & Lending products, processes and controls.
• Collaborate and co-ordinate with other members of the UK and Europe Banking CIB legal team and coverage teams from other jurisdictions to ensure efficient and effective ways of working and sharing of legal knowledge and best practices across the teams/businesses.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• English qualified lawyer with demonstratable relevant experience gained either within a financial institution or top tier private practice.
• Lending specialism essential with leveraged or project finance experience desirable but not essential.
• Experience managing a specialized team of lawyers and paraprofessionals is desirable but not essential.
• Maintain knowledge of HSBC Group operations and policies.
• Strong relationship management skills with higher levels of management inspiring confidence of customers/stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and under time pressure.

The base location for this role is any UK HSBC office (excluding London) with a hybrid working pattern.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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