Legal Counsel, Financing Uk Legal - Glasgow, United Kingdom - BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

LEGAL COUNSEL, FINANCING UK
LEGAL - ASSOCIATE (

JOB NUMBER:
LEG000545-AS)

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe.

The Group has key positions in its three main activities:
Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.

The Role

The Legal Counsel is a member of Financing
LEGAL and provides effective and timely legal advice, transaction assistance and project work for the businesses and functions of Global Banking and the lending activities of Capital Markets in BNPP London Branch, as well as, where relevant, providing advice to other entities of the BNPP Group on matters of English law relating to Financing Activities, daily banking, cash management and corporate finance.

The work will be a mix of independent work and support roles on some more complex matters and projects.

The Responsibilities

Provision of effective and timely legal advice to the Global Banking businesses and the lending activities of Capital Markets and functions within BNPP London Branch including:
Assisting in the drafting, negotiation and review of legal documents and execution aspects of transactions.
Assisting in providing legal advice in the context of transactions.
Provision of legal advice and support on Financing Activities, daily banking, cash management and corporate finance, under the supervision of more senior lawyers as appropriate.
Supervision of external lawyers on transactions.
Provision of legal advice and support on English law matters to other entities and locations within the BNP Paribas Group.
Assisting with the provision of advice, including in relation to TACs / NACs (Transaction Approval and New Activity Committees) and dealing with queries from our stakeholders in the bank, under supervision of more senior lawyers as appropriate.
Participating actively in all relevant initiatives of Financing
LEGAL, particularly those aimed at standardisation and simplification of processes and mutualisation of resources and knowhow.
Assisting
LEGAL UK and Financing
LEGAL initiatives as to training, knowhow preparation and expertise sharing, and participating in the effective rollout and use of crossborder IT tools and systems including SharePoint, Matter Management and others.
Raising legal risks within the scope of Financing
LEGAL activity, including the accurate reporting of risks in the SARA system where required; assisting as required on matters relating to permanent control topics covered by
LEGAL UK or Financing
LEGAL.
Generally responding to any requests of
LEGAL UK or Financing
LEGAL management teams for assistance on transactional or nontransactional matters.
Overseeing the work of any trainees within the team.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential Skills

English law qualified Banking and Finance lawyer
Strong communication skills, both written and spoken.
Calm, resilient, professional team player.
Eagerness and willingness to learn.
Organisation skills

Business Skills

Risk analysis
Compliance knowledge
Banking law
Civil and commercial / contract law
Legal Knowledge
Business Organisation

Transversal Skills

Analytical ability
Ability to develop and leverage networks
Ability to conduct a negotiation
Ability to understand, explain and support change

Equal Opportunities

As an employee with BNP Paribas London Branch, we want to make sure that you are rewarded for your commitment.

As such, you will be entitled to our award winning benefits package which includes a generous holiday allowance of at least 34 days (including bank holidays), a non-contributory pension of 12%, private healthcare, GP service and dental cover all as standard, along with a number of personal insurances such as income protection, life assurance and personal accident insurance.

We believe in ensuring all our employees have a positive work life balance so in addition you will also have access to a variety of flexible lifestyle benefits such as cycle to work and green car leasing schemes, season ticket loans and reduced cinema and gym membership to name a few.

Primary Location:
GB-SCO-Glasgow

Job Type:
Standard / Permanent

Job:

LEGAL

Education Level:
Not indicated

Schedule:
Full-time

Not specified

Entity:
BNP Paribas CIB