Senior Legal Counsel - Structured Finance

Robert Walters is partnering with a leading financial institution to hire an experienced Structured Finance Lawyer. This role offers the chance to provide expert legal support across a range of businesses engaged in securitisation, risk transfer, and the financing of various asset classes.

You will play a pivotal part in shaping complex transactions, working closely with business teams on high-profile deals, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive legal support to businesses involved in securitisation, risk transfer, and structured financing of diverse underlying assets.
• Participate actively in the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of a wide variety of transactions, ensuring all legal aspects are thoroughly addressed.
• Draft, review, and negotiate offering materials, subscription agreements, asset and servicing documentation, engagement letters, commitment letters, termsheets, and legal opinions.
• Advise business stakeholders on laws, rules, and regulations affecting securitisation and structured finance activities.
• Collaborate closely with teams such as credit structuring, securitised products, portfolio hedging, and optimisation within the Investment Bank to deliver seamless legal guidance.
• Monitor regulatory developments relevant to structured finance and communicate their implications effectively to business partners.
• Assist in managing legal and reputational risks associated with transactions by supporting internal committees such as the Transaction Review Committee.
• Work alongside Compliance and other control functions to ensure robust governance over all structured finance activities.
• Contribute to the development of best practices for legal risk management within the structured finance domain.
• Support knowledge sharing initiatives within the legal team to foster collective expertise.

What will make you successful?

• Extensive technical knowledge in securitisation structuring and related regulations is required so you can confidently guide complex transactions from inception through execution.
• A broad understanding of financial instruments and credit structuring enables you to assess transaction risks holistically.
• Proven experience drafting and negotiating transaction documents such as offering materials, subscription agreements, asset documentation, termsheets, engagement letters, commitment letters, and legal opinions is vital for success in this role.
• Strong interpersonal skills allow you to collaborate effectively with business personnel across credit structuring, portfolio optimisation, compliance, and other control functions.
• Excellent communication abilities are needed so you can explain complex legal concepts clearly to both legal peers and non-legal stakeholders alike.
• A keen awareness of regulatory developments impacting structured finance ensures you can provide timely advice on emerging issues.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

About the job

Contract Type: Permanent

Specialism: Legal

Focus: Banking & Finance

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Mid Management

Location: London

Industry: Financial Services

Salary: Negotiable