JPMorgan Export Agency Finance Trade - Assistant General Counsel Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

488156593

Job responsibilities

• Providing primary legal support and advice to the businesses on a wide range of product-specific queries, transactions and non-transactional matters relating to export finance as well as other trade & working capital products and services;
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts with the Bank’s customers and export agencies;
• Contributing to projects that improve operational processes to increase the efficiency and scalability of legal support;
• Liaising and coordinating with local, regional and global legal counter-parts and functional partners on legal issues; and
• Instructing and working with outside counsel.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Qualified lawyer from a common law jurisdiction or an EU member state with between 5 and 15 years of post-qualification legal experience;
• Experience in lending and finance; and
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills.

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience supporting export agency financings across different industries such as aviation, infrastructure and project finance deals, shipping, etc.;
• Experience in trade finance (including letters of credit / demand guarantees) and receivables financing;
• Experience working with business and control functions stakeholders across geographies.