VP, Commodity Finance Lawyer

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group•New York, NY

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Main purpose of the role MUFG is seeking a seasoned transactional attorney with a minimum of 5 years’ experience to support the legal execution of structured trade, commodity finance and working capital solutions transactions. The successful candidate will lead legal support across the full transaction lifecycle—from structuring and term sheet input to documentation, negotiation, and post-close matters—while advising on complex instruments such as borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, seller-led receivables purchase agreements, buyer led payment services agreements, letters of credit, and participation structures.

Requirements

5–8 years post-qualification at a top law firm and/or in-house at top investment bank.
Strong lending-side experience in trade/commodity finance; receivables finance, supply-chain finance a significant advantage.
Hands-on drafting/negotiation across: borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, LCs and reimbursement agreements, receivables purchase agreements, payment services agreements, drafts/bills of exchange buyer agreements, master participation agreements, import/pre-export financing, LC discounting, guarantees/security, intercreditors, deposit account control agreements and consents & releases.
Strong working knowledge of UCC Articles 9,5 and 3 and LC rules (UCP 600, ISP98, URDG 758).
Familiarity with LMA/LSTA conventions for syndicated touchpoints; BAFT receivables, payables, Drafts cross-border practices and agreements.
Experience integrating credit insurance/ECA into lending/RPA structures.
Proven ability to run multiple complex bilateral deals independently, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders under tight timelines.
New York Bar required.

Responsibilities

Legal support for transactions end-to-end: structure, term-sheet input, drafting, negotiation, closing, and post-close support for bilateral and syndicated facilities.
Draft/negotiate/review core documentation: borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, seller-led receivables purchase agreements, buyer led payment services agreements, letters of credit (standby/commercial) and reimbursement agreements, master participation agreements and participation certificates/funding requests, LC discounting, drafts/bills of exchange, guarantees, collateral/security agreements, account control/lockbox, intercreditor, consents & releases, assignments and notices.
Letters of Credit advisory: issuance/confirmation/assignment mechanics; reimbursement, discrepancies and fraud issues; standby vs commercial LC nuances; align documentation and operational controls with UCP 600, ISP98, URDG 758 and UCC Article 5.
Apply structured-lending and receivables financing fundamentals: true sale, security interests, secured-loans; expertise with UCC Article 9 perfection/priority rules, set-off/dilution and anti-assignment; purchase eligibility/concentration limits; collections/servicing and step-in rights.
Integrate credit insurance/ECA support where applicable (loss-payee/assignment, exclusions, claims process, aggregation/tenor limits).
Manage cross-border matters (governing law, licensing, data privacy, recognition, local enforcement rights/perfection); coordinate with local counsel.
Partner closely with Credit, Risk, Ops/Trade Finance Operations, and Compliance/Sanctions; ensure consistency across term sheets, approvals, and final docs.
Maintain playbooks, clause libraries, and fallbacks; contribute training and horizon-scanning on market/documentation trends.
Instruct and manage outside counsel to scope, budget, and timetable.

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