Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team! We are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process, if you require any reasonable adjustments please let us know so we can aim to accommodate. We are currently looking for an experienced lawyer to join our team supporting our UK and Europe Transaction Banking (TB) and (where capacity permits) our Global Banking (GB) businesses. The role will be based in London and report to the European Head of Legal for Transaction Banking and Global Banking. Transaction Banking is made up of our Trade Finance and Cash products whilst Global Banking consists primarily of syndicated and bilateral lending and similar credit structures. You will be joining a dynamic, solutions orientated team. The candidate will work closely with various stakeholders in the UK and Europe as well as with Legal colleagues in the wider SCB network, where necessary.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to the UK and Europe TB and GB businesses as well as related functions.
• Drafting and negotiating legal documents for TB and GB transactions including engaging with and advising relevant internal stakeholders.
• Managing external counsel on ad hoc transactions including as to costs, quality and responsiveness of advice.
• Provide legal advice and training with respect to new products and initiatives for TB and GB in the UK / Europe.
• Keep up to date with relevant changes in law and regulation and assist on the implementation of regulatory reform.
• Identify, assess, manage, monitor, mitigate and report legal risks across TB and GB in the UK / Europe.
• Support the TB and GB business teams with immaterial disputes that may arise from time to time.
• Support the Legal teams in other regions of the SCB network where needed.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 3+ years PQE with experience working in a top tier law firm. Experience working in a financial institution also desirable.
• Proven experience advising, negotiating and / or drafting:
  • Trade Finance structures and instruments,
  • Cash products including Cash Escrow, Account Bank and Payments structures,
  • Cross border bilateral and syndicated (LMA) loans – experience with Fund Finance and CRE financing desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of regulations directly impacting the above products.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to understand and evaluate business requirements in managing legal risk.
• Willingness to work in a team environment whilst also working autonomously and managing your workload efficiently.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• English law qualified (or qualified in a commonwealth jurisdiction).
• Proven experience of Trade Finance, Cash structures (including Escrow and Account Bank structures) and bilateral and syndicated cross border lending.
• Proven familiarity with LMA and BAFT indusgtry documentation. 

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.