ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a highly motivated intermediate to senior lawyer specialising in derivatives and securities financing transactions.
The role involves providing legal support for a wide range of issues arising from derivatives and securities financing transactions, including both structured and flow transactions, and involves drafting, reviewing and negotiating transactional documentation for different product types across a broad range of asset classes and underliers such as FX, rates, commodity, and credit-linked OTC derivatives, FX and credit-linked notes, repo and reverse repo transactions as well as documentation for the distribution of related risks, such as participation agreements and credit insurance. It will also include reviewing and negotiating documentation with nostro banks, custodians and other service providers, and advising on matters relating to electronic trading platforms.
The lawyer in this role will also be required to advise on the practical impact of new regulations on the Bank’s derivatives and securities financing trading activities, as well as advising on cross-border issues. The lawyer will, with other lawyers in the transactional Legal team, work closely with the business on supporting day-to-day business transactions, helping to structure new transactions and products, and advising the business on how regulations affect their business. The lawyer will work closely with the rest of the Legal team in respect of transactional and advisory work, and from time to time will be responsible for supporting other products (e.g. commodities and Debt Capital Markets) and engaging and managing external counsel in respect of certain matters.
This role requires the successful candidate to be able to proactively identify legal and regulatory issues, provide commercially pragmatic advice to the business and work well both within the Legal team and with other departments. The ideal candidate will have excellent technical and drafting skills, as well as a good understanding of derivative products and regulations impacting derivatives businesses, with prior transactional and advisory experience in emerging markets and fixed income derivatives and an ability to apply product knowledge to new transactions and products. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well as part of a team are also essential.

• Providing legal advice in relation to derivatives and securities financing transactions, including providing structuring, documentation and legal support in respect of transactions linked to fixed income assets classes (including rates, credit and currencies), including cash, repo and OTC derivative products (including financelinked swaps), and credit- and/ or FX-linked notes. There is also likely to be a component of OTC commodity derivatives. All these products have a focus on emerging markets.
• All aspects of Legal structured transaction management for derivatives and structured financing transactions, including the review and negotiation of transaction documentation, coordinating and leading on instructions to external counsel, reviewing legal opinions, presenting legal analysis and recommendations at the Bank’s internal approval committees, execution management and post-closing matters.
• Assessing legal risks arising in the course of derivatives and structured financing transactions.
• Advising on regulatory compliance issues that impact transactional documentation, including US, EU and UK sanctions
• Reviewing trade confirmations and other documentation to be entered into by the Bank in relation to derivatives and structured financing transactions, including drafting and/or reviewing transactional documentation and internal approval papers.
• Reviewing and negotiating documentation with nostro banks, custodians and other service providers
• Advising on matters relating to electronic trading platforms
• Working closely with the Bank’s Front Office and support functions (e.g. Compliance, Credit, Risk, Operations and Tax)
• Carrying out other functions performed on behalf of the Legal Department as and when required.