Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel, CIB Legal GCB4 – Legal – London

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HSBC’s Legal function plays a critical role in supporting the bank’s global operations, managing legal risk, and ensuring the efficient and effective use of external legal resources. We work closely with leading law firms and alternative legal service providers to secure the best commercial and strategic outcomes for the bank

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) legal team. The Senior Legal Counsel provides expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that the legal and reputational risks faced by the area of coverage are identified, reported and mitigated. This role reports into a Managing Associate General Counsel. 

In this role, you will:

• Be a credit and lending subject matter expert in the Banking CIB Legal team, primarily support the negotiation of credit and lending transactions for the Institutional Client Group and Innovation Banking clients across the UK and EMEA.
• Support Global Credit and Lending initiatives / projects across CIB broadly (including flow and Investment Banking products) including regional and/or global regulatory/transformation or simplification projects.
• To be the accountable lawyer to the Business on legal issues that the Business faces, ensuring commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal support and advice is provided in a cost-effective manner.
• Provide guidance and support to the Business on non-standard legal and reputational risks connected to clients in their segments.
• Be responsible for training, supervising and reviewing the work of the other members of the team and helping to create and update negotiation guidelines, playbooks and other support materials to be used by the team.
• Evaluating and responding to changes in legal and regulatory requirements as they arise and apply to Credit & Lending products, processes and controls.
• Assist with simplifying and streamlining templates, policies and procedures and helping to drive alignment across products and geographies.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• UK Qualified Lawyer with relevant extensive experience at a comparable institution or law firm, with a strong of understanding of Lending specialism with leveraged finance, fund finance and/or venture debt experience desirable but not essential.
• Ability to think independently being mindful of maintaining an appropriate balance between management and mitigation of legal risk and business efficacy.
• Strong relationship management skills with higher levels of management inspiring confidence of customers/stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and under time pressure.
• Lateral thinking/problem solving skillset

The base location for this role is London with a hybrid working pattern.

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HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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