Job Summary
Currently to Team M&A and Corporate Legal we looking for Senior Legal Counsel who will be reponsilbe for 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 Completion
Skills and Experience
- Knowledge ofMergers and Acquisitions
- Experience with legal documentation
- Negotiations experience
- Corporate acume
- Confidency
- 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
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.
