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About the Role

Seeking an experienced, commercially minded lawyer to join the Sales & Trading Legal team, supporting Jefferies' EMEA and Asia Fixed Income businesses, with a particular focus on the German Namenspapier market. The role involves providing legal support to the Global Structured Solutions business and advising on wider fixed income, financing, trading, and regulatory matters. This front-office-facing role offers the opportunity to work on a broad range of debt capital markets and financing transactions within a dynamic and growing fixed income franchise.

Responsibilities

Advise transaction teams on legal, regulatory, and execution risks.
Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documentation.
Support the establishment, update, and utilization of issuance programmes.
Advise on offering documentation, placement arrangements, and distribution matters.
Coordinate with external counsel, clients, and internal stakeholders.
Support transaction due diligence and disclosure processes.
Advise on applicable UK, EU, and German legal and regulatory requirements.
Support new product development and strategic business initiatives.
Advise on MiFID II, market abuse, conduct, and investor protection matters.
Assist with regulatory change and implementation projects.
Provide legal support to compliance, risk, and other control functions.
Advise on broader fixed income trading, financing, and structuring activities.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer with at least 4 years' PQE, gained in private practice or in-house.
Dual qualification in Germany and England & Wales is strongly preferred.
Candidates qualified in Germany, England & Wales or another Commonwealth jurisdiction will also be considered.
Strong experience in the German Namenspapier market and related debt capital markets products.
Sound understanding of German capital markets documentation and market practice.
Knowledge of relevant UK, EU, and German regulatory frameworks.
Excellent drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to manage multiple matters and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Exercise sound judgement and identify key legal and execution risks.
Comfortable working directly with senior and junior stakeholders across the business.
Manage a broad and varied workload effectively.
Negotiate confidently with external counterparties and advisers.
Deliver concise, practical, and commercially focused advice.
Collaborate effectively across business lines, jurisdictions, and control functions.

Skills

German market debt products expertise
Broad debt capital markets experience
Private placement experience
German-law and cross-border debt products structuring, arrangement, and placement
Fixed income, financing, trading, and regulatory matters advisory
MiFID II knowledge
Market abuse knowledge
Conduct knowledge
Investor protection knowledge
Fluency in German, written and spoken, is desirable

Location

EMEA
Asia

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

At least 4 years' PQE

Education Level

Qualified lawyer

About the Company

Jefferies is a leading global investment banking and capital markets firm, providing insights, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments for more than 60 years.
With deep sector expertise and a full range of investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset management and wealth management capabilities, Jefferies serves clients across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF).
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services.
With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives.
We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live.
As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Equal Opportunity

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law.
We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.
As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.