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About the Role
This role provides legal support for Agreements & Documentation and Confirmations groups, focusing on prime brokerage, equities swap, and securities lending documentation. You will also review and negotiate third-party security arrangements, term margin agreements, and other bespoke documentation, while offering legal advice to related areas and managing product templates and guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Providing legal support to Agreements & Documentation and Confirmations groups relating to the negotiation of prime brokerage, equities swap and securities lending documentation.
- Review and negotiation of third party security arrangements, term margin agreements and other bespoke documentation.
- Provide legal advice to related areas
- Creation and maintenance of product templates, guidelines and legal documentation summaries
- Involvement with related due diligence projects and other reviews, including those related to compliance with existing and forthcoming legislation and regulations, for e.g. CSDR, SFTR, UMR, MiFID II, IBOR implementation, EU BMR.
- Liaising with external counsel in the development of new products and regulatory compliance.
- Advise on development of new products and structures in the securities lending and equities swaps areas.
- Close engagement with Business and other key stakeholders (Compliance, Tax, Risk, Credit)
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor.
- Experience of investment banking either through private practice advisory work/secondment or in-house legal department
- Experienced in advising on prime brokerage, securities lending and equity derivative transactions.
- Thorough understanding of collateral and security arrangements
- Transactional and deal experience
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy of work
- Proactive and able to manage competing priorities/tight deadlines
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Solicitor
Benefits
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover
- 26-weeks paid maternity leave
- 16-weeks paid paternity leave
- Inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers
- 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs
- 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits
- Option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances
- Access to a wellbeing account
- Travel insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline
- Virtual GP services
- Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
- Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area
About the Company
- At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.
- One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
- Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
- We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.