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About the Role

This role is within the EMEA Markets Practice Group of the Legal Department, focusing on securitisation transactions. You will advise on multi-asset, cross-border, private and public securitisation, infrastructure, and collateralised loan obligation transactions, with exposure to specialty lending and emerging markets. The position involves identifying and advising on legal, regulatory, and cross-border issues, assisting with transaction structuring, execution, and documentation, and staying informed about UK and European regulations impacting securitised products.

Responsibilities

Providing general legal support and advice to the business.
Working closely with the business from inception to the close of transactions, structuring transactions and reviewing transaction documentation.
Identifying, raising and working to solve structuring, legal and regulatory issues affecting the business.
Developing and managing relationships with external counsel in various jurisdictions and working closely with external counsel on those transactions for which they are engaged.
Liaising with legal colleagues in other jurisdictions on cross-border transactions and with Compliance and other internal risk and control functions.
Assisting and advising the business and colleagues in the Legal Department on regulatory change and implementation affecting the businesses we support.
Driving process, documentation and efficiency improvements across the various areas of coverage.

Requirements

Licensed to practice law in England & Wales or a similar jurisdiction.
Work experience (4+ PQE) of securitised products and/or a loans / lending background.
Genuine team player with strong organisational and communication skills and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Good judgement and is able to identify risks and issues and escalate where appropriate.
Confident, well-organised and proactive and would enjoy working closely with Origination, Sales, Trading, Structuring and control functions.
Strong interest in innovative transactional work and the ability to oversee multiple transactions simultaneously.
Able to advise the business on regulatory and cross-border issues impacting multiple asset classes and has good commercial awareness.
Broad skill set that is adaptable to a range of securitised product transactions including new or novel asset classes.
Ability to cope with a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and multi-task.

Skills

Securitisation
Loans/Lending
Legal advice
Transaction structuring
Transaction documentation review
Regulatory advice
Cross-border issues
External counsel management
Collaboration with internal risk and control functions
Regulatory change implementation
Process improvement
Documentation improvement
Efficiency improvement
Organisational skills
Communication skills
Risk identification
Issue escalation
Commercial awareness
Multi-tasking

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

4+ PQE

Education Level

Licensed to practice law in England & Wales or a similar jurisdiction

About the Company

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors.
Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do.
We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing.
Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses.
The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.