Job responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate agreements for key CCB strategic partnerships and engagements.
- Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic, and transparent advice to business partners.
- Provide ongoing support and assistance to business partners, other legal teams and functional partners as to contract interpretation.
- Provide early stage “seat at the table” strategy and pre-term sheet legal support, including issue-spotting, researching, and appropriately escalating risks and concerns that may exist with any potential deal type.
- Participate in cross line of business initiatives.
- Manage external counsel on discrete deals (as much of the work is done in-house as possible).
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Licensed attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience.
- On-point transactional experience with strong technical drafting skills.
- The ability to stay calm when the pressure is on and the confidence to be outspoken when necessary while maintaining a good sense of humor.
- Entrepreneurial, business-minded, and a creative problem solver.
- The ability to see past the question, understand the wider strategy, and think tactically to get to the best result for all parties.
- The ability to pivot between priorities and have the perseverance and patience to see a matter through to completion.
Preferred qualification, capabilities, and skills
- Prior in-house experience, financial services experience, and/or experience with technology/digital transactions and partnership agreements would be a significant plus.