Job ID: 37451
Location: London, GB
Area of interest: Legal
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 4 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

Provide legal support and advice to all stakeholders across the Group for the Group’s own account corporate and M&A transactions, projects and matters, including: acquisition, divestment, joint ventures, corporate projects and equity investment activities which affect Group structure; Corporate Development and cross-functional deal / project teams specific to each project or transaction and Group functions (e.g. Corporate Secretariat, Corporate Affairs and Finance) on corporate law issues; and Group restructuring and corporate actions (including share buybacks and changes to group structure).

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Mergers and AcquisitionsLegal documentationNegotiationsCorporate acume
• Confidenc
• Project management

QUALIFICATIONS

Must be a qualified lawyer (solicitor, attorney or barrister) with 4+ years’ post qualification experience and have:

• a detailed knowledge and understanding of corporate and M&A law and practice; and
• international (preferably emerging markets) experience of structuring and executing a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and other corporate transactions
• understanding of risk management techniques
• exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience
• personal authority with proven ability to establish relationships and provide strong direction at senior levels of the Group

ABOUT STANDARD CHARTERED

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we’ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you’re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can’t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Enterprise Legal; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies.

• Profile: Able to work with senior management to develop and implement strategic projects/initiatives
• Commercial: pragmatic, creative, practical and solution-oriented
• Proactive: able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked and provide advice accordingly
• Flexible: able and willing to work long hours (if required) and travel in connection with projects
• Team player: personable, responsible, helpful
• Organised: able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines
• Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with board members, other senior staff and persons of different nationalities and from different cultures, have good judgment and strong decision making skills
• Self-motivated: able to operate independently with limited supervision
• Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group
• Responsibility and perseverance
• Highest professional standards
• Demonstrates the bank’s values

Participate in all aspects of the transaction process including due diligence, structuring, negotiating and completing the transaction. The team is responsible for, inter alia:

• Negotiating NDA, Exclusivity Letters, Offer Letters, Engagement Letters etc
• Instructing & Managing External Counsel on M&A transactions
• Managing Legal Due Diligence
• Negotiating the Sale & Purchase Agreement and other Transactional Documents
• Managing the Legal Process to Completio