Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our dynamic legal team, supporting our Global Banking division across Asia, with a particular focus on Greater China and North Asia (GCNA). This role requires an individual with deep expertise in banking law and regulations to provide, and manage the provision of, advisory, structuring, and execution legal support for Global Banking Lending and M&A Advisory Transactions in GCNA.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal advisory and transactional work for the Global Banking division, with a focus on:
  • • Commercial Real Estate Finance
    • Financing Solutions (syndicated lending)
    • Funds Finance
    • Infrastructure and Development Finance
    • Leveraged and Acquisition Finance & Private Credit
    • Transportation Finance (aviation and shipping)
    • M&A Advisory
• Manage and oversee the provision of legal services, ensuring compliance with banking laws and regulations.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to structure and execute complex financial transactions.
• Provide assistance to the Global Banking Legal team on the management of legal enforceability risk within the context of the relevant risk management system in place.
• Stay updated with the latest legal developments and regulatory changes in the banking sector

Key Stakeholders:

•    Group General Counsel
•    Head of CIB Legal, Banking and other Legal Management Team members 
•    CIB Legal team members
•    Legal Documentation Unit
•    The Head of Global Banking and all other members of Global Banking businesses
•    Appropriate colleagues in other functions such as CFCC, Audit, Operational Risk, Credit and Tax
•    External law firms

Qualifications & Experience

• University degree specialising in law such as Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Master of Laws (LLM) or Juris Doctor (JD)
• Qualified to practice as a solicitor, attorney or equivalent in a common law jurisdiction.
• 5+ years’ experience in private practice and / or in-house of managing complex legal issues in an international environment at first rate institutions.
• Experience with LMA and APLMA style documentation in the context of cross-border financings.
• Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Sound judgment of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Chinese (Mandarin) are mandatory.

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

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.