- Lead highimpact legal work across global markets.
- Work directly with frontoffice teams on complex trading and financing.
About Our Client
Our client is a longestablished global financial institution offering investment banking, markets, and asset management services. It is recognized as one of the world's largest and most influential investment banks and consistently ranked among top global financial firms.
Job Description
- Advisory Support: Offer legal guidance to trading and financing teams, with emphasis on assetbacked lending, commodities (both derivatives and physical), and general coverage across FX, interest rate, and bondrelated matters.
- Transaction Documentation: Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial and trading agreements, ensuring alignment with legal, regulatory, and risk considerations.
- Structuring & Strategy: Partner with business units on transaction structuring, considering regulatory, compliance, reputational, and riskmanagement implications.
- External Counsel Management: Oversee interactions with outside legal advisors and ensure that appropriate opinions, protections, and duediligence standards are met.
- Trading Floor Support: Work directly with sales and trading teams to address legal issues arising out of daytoday market activities.
- Regulatory Monitoring: Track, interpret, and implement regulatory developments affecting fixed income and commodities markets, including financial and physical commodity activity and mortgagerelated businesses.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Coordinate with internal groups such as legal colleagues, risk functions, treasury, compliance, operations, tax, and finance to resolve crosscutting issues.
- New Business Review: Contribute to assessments of new products, initiatives, and market entry proposals.
The Successful Applicant
A Successful Legal Vice President Should Have
- Minimum 6 years of postqualification experience, qualified in Singapore or the any other commonwealth countries.
- Strong foundation in financing transactions, commodities, and securities regulation.
- Proven ability to engage as a proactive legal adviser and operate confidently with senior business stakeholders.
- Strong legal judgement and excellent communication, analytical, and drafting skills.
- Experience gained at a reputable international law firm or an inhouse legal department.
What's On Offer
- Competitive salary package
- Opportunities to work within a globally recognised financial services organisation.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Vice President to advance their career within the financial services industry. If you are looking for a challenging role in a global investment bank, we encourage you to apply today.
Contact: Celeste Goh (Lic No: R1104095 / EA no:18S9099)
Quote job ref: JN-022026-6936263
