We have partnered with an international bank who are seeking to hire an experienced banking lawyer to join their highly respected legal team. This role offers you the opportunity to work closely with business teams across Corporate Banking, Transaction Banking, and Financial Institutions, providing expert legal advice on a diverse range of lending and finance transactions.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide transactional legal advice by collaborating closely with business teams on their transaction portfolios, identifying legal and regulatory risks in deals, advising on solutions or mitigants, assisting in negotiations, coordinating documentation review, and involving external counsel when necessary.
• Draft term sheets, facility agreements, trade finance documentation, secondary trading documentation, and related amendments based on internal precedents; negotiate and manage bilateral transactions while preparing and updating templates as required.
• Review new product approval requests from a legal perspective, offering input to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and bank policies.
• Advise upon and review a wide range of additional contracts including commercial contracts as well as property and facilities management-related leases and agreements.
• Conduct legal research on regulatory developments affecting banking operations; prepare internal notes and arrange training sessions for stakeholders by engaging with law firms and industry bodies.
• Digest the Enterprise-Wide Risk Management framework; familiarise yourself with process maps, tax risk policy, legal department policies/plans; report/escalate material risk events as needed.
• Understand bank policies such as IT Security Policy and Data Protection Policy; act as second line of defence for Legal Risk Framework, Statutory Risk, Modern Slavery and Copyright matters.
• Ensure timely completion of all mandatory training required by the bank to maintain compliance standards.
• Take responsibility for day-to-day identification, ownership, and management of conduct risk/control processes through continued development/implementation of the bank's risk framework (including compliance/conduct/financial crime risk frameworks).

What you'll need to be successful:

• Qualified practising solicitor (or equivalent) with substantial experience in general lending and financial services gained at either a UK or international law firm.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while leading/managing transactions together with external counsel as appropriate.
• Familiarity with LMA standard documentation, standard financing structures, conditions precedent documentation is essential for success in this role.
• Outstanding communication skills enabling you to manage/prioritise competing demands effectively within a busy banking environment.
• Some knowledge or experience of project finance/trade finance is advantageous but not essential for consideration.
• In-depth understanding of the legal/regulatory framework relevant to bank lending in the UK would be highly beneficial.
• Experience in-house within financial services is desirable but not mandatory for applicants seeking this position.
• Ability to draft/review complex documentation including term sheets/facility agreements/trade finance documents/secondary trading documents/amendments based on internal precedents.
• Familiarity with ISDA documentation would be welcomed though not required for this position.

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