Strategic Transactions Counsel, Partnerships

JPMorganChase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking an experienced attorney to join the Strategy and Corporate Development Legal Team in Columbus, OH. You will draft and negotiate complex strategic agreements spanning co-brand card partnerships, payment networks, and digital integrations.

You will advise senior business leaders from deal strategy through execution. With 5+ years of legal experience in banking or fintech, you will provide pragmatic commercial guidance, support business partners, and oversee external

Qualifications

• Licensed attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Prior experience advising banking and or fintech organizations with regard to consumer and small business products and services
• On-point transactional experience with strong negotiation and technical drafting skills
• Ability to work autonomously while being a collegial team player who brings a positive, can-do attitude to the workplace and works collaboratively with other members of the Legal team and with internal clients
• Entrepreneurial, business-minded, and a creative problem solver
• The ability to see past the question, understand the wider strategy, and think tactically to get to the best result for all parties
• The ability to pivot between priorities and have the perseverance and patience to see a matter through to completion

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate agreements for key CCB strategic partnerships and engagements including partnership agreements, embedded benefits agreements, co-brand credit card agreements and issuer agreements with payment networks.
• Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic, and transparent advice to business partners.
• Provide ongoing support and assistance to business partners, other legal teams and functional partners as to contract interpretation.
• Provide early stage seat at the table strategy and pre-term sheet legal support, including issue-spotting, researching, and appropriately escalating risks and concerns that may exist with any potential deal type.
• Participate in cross line of business initiatives.
• Manage external counsel as required.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written comms

Negotiation skills

Drafting of complex agreements

Banking/fintech advisory experience

Autonomous yet collaborative work

Entrepreneurial mindset

Strategic deal thinking

Prioritization under pressure

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking an experienced attorney to join the Strategy and Corporate Development Legal Team in Columbus, OH. You will draft and negotiate complex strategic agreements spanning co-brand card partnerships, payment networks, and digital integrations.

You will advise senior business leaders from deal strategy through execution. With 5+ years of legal experience in banking or fintech, you will provide pragmatic commercial guidance, support business partners, and oversee external