Legal Counsel - Global Trade Finance (GTS)
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About the Role
HSBC is seeking a Legal Counsel to provide expert legal advice to the Global Trade Services (GTS) business in UAE and MENAT. Requires 2-5 years PQE with experience in lending, trade, and receivables finance, particularly structured trade transactions.
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Responsibilities
- Provide expert legal advice, guidance and support to HSBC’s Global Trade Services (GTS) business in UAE and across MENAT.
- Draft, review and negotiate relevant transaction documentation focused on core trade and structured trade transactions.
- Advise relevant GTS Management on non standard legal and reputational risks.
- Evaluate and respond to changes in legal and regulatory requirements.
- Assist in the management of legal risk in relation to the GTS and wider CIB business.
Requirements
- Qualified Lawyer (2 5 years PQE)
- Experience in lending (bilateral and syndicated), trade and receivables finance products with focus on structured trade transactions
- Knowledge of banking law concepts (lending, UAE corporate structures, security, trade finance)
- Familiarity with industry standard documentation (including LMA documentation) and transaction execution
- Bachelor's degree required for UAE work permit
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The Role
- The Legal Counsel provides expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that the legal and reputational risks faced by the area of coverage are identified, reported and mitigated.
- This role will typically report to a Senior Legal Counsel, an Associate General Counsel, a Managing Associate General Counsel or to a Country General Counsel.
Responsibilities
- To provide expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to HSBC’s Global Trade Services (GTS) business in UAE and across MENAT in the context of Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) customers.
- Be the accountable lawyer or aiding the accountable lawyer for the GTS business in MENAT on all material legal issues.
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating relevant transaction documentation principally focused on core trade and structured trade transactions.
- Execute against relevant policies and procedures for the relevant area of coverage.
- Advising relevant GTS Management on non standard legal and reputational risks.
- Evaluating and responding to changes in legal and regulatory requirements as they arise.
- Provide legal advice that is prompt, succinct, easy to understand, and adds value.
- Provide commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical guidance and support.
- Ensure that legal implications and risks of initiatives and/or complex matters are effectively communicated.
- Working alongside Regional General Counsel, MENAT, Head of Banking Legal, MENAT and Regional Head of GTS Legal, MENAT on broader wholesale and functional projects.
- Maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships with CIB and wider product teams.
- Participate effectively as part of the CIB and MENAT Regional legal teams, and Global GTS Legal team.
Qualifications
- A Qualified Lawyer (2 5 years PQE) with experience of lending (bilateral and syndicated), trade and receivables finance products with a particular focus on structure trade transactions (e.g. commodity finance, borrowing base facilities and asset finance) is required.
- Knowledge and experience of banking law concepts (in particular lending, UAE corporate structures, security and trade finance concepts) and a working knowledge of the laws in the major jurisdictions in which HSBC operates across MENAT.
- Familiarity with industry standard documentation (including LMA documentation) and transaction execution (including collateral, legal opinions and managing counsel).
- Corporate experience, restructuring experience and Compliance experience an advantage, but not essential.
- Knowledge of the HSBC Group corporate structures, its business and personnel and a clear understanding of HSBC’s corporate culture.
- Able to bring new ideas and innovative solutions to delivery of legal services.
- Ability to prioritise.
- Communication and inter personal skills.
- Developing lateral thinking/problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of Islamic finance and Arabic language skills will be an advantage but not essential.
- Bachelor's Degree is required in order to obtain a UAE work permit.
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