Vice President, Capital Markets Advisory Lawyer

Barclays • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to ensure that activities of the investment banking division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities. This role provides legal and regulatory advisory support to the Investment Banking division across debt capital markets transactions, including investment grade and high yield securities issuances, and fixed income syndicate activities. The Vice President will partner closely with bankers, syndicate, research, and business stakeholders to advise on securities law matters, debt offerings, transaction execution, and strategic capital markets initiatives. This opportunity is ideal for a transactional attorney with strong securities law and capital markets experience who can independently manage complex matters in a fast paced, high performing environment.

Requirements

• A deep knowledge of legal and regulatory matters relating to debt capital markets transactions, including US securities laws and broker-dealer regulation applicable to the underwriting and distribution of securities issuances
• Knowledge of the structure, documentation and disclosure and diligence practices relating to investment grade and high yield securities issuances, commercial paper and medium-term note issuances and fixed income syndicate transactions
• Experience with the review, drafting and negotiation of documentation relating to debt offerings and capital markets transactions, including public offerings, private placements and liability management transactions
• Ability to independently manage complex legal matters and lead projects across internal stakeholders, including front office stakeholders, Compliance and other risk management functions
• Contract negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience partnering with cross functional stakeholders in a fast-paced, cross-border investment banking environment
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• Some other highly valued skills may include:

Responsibilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the bank's investment banking division on legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, lending and other corporate finance transactions.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to investment banking activities, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and/or review of legal documents for the investment banking division to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Maintaining and updating form legal documentation for the investment banking division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws, rules and regulations that may impact the bank's investment banking activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the investment banking activities.
• Act as legal advisor to the Investment banking transaction approval committees on laws, rules and regulations.
• Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs).
• Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area.
• Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed