Vice President / Director, Legal Department (Global Markets)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal Dept, supporting the Bank’s global markets and derivatives trading business. The successful candidate will provide legal support across a wide range of treasury and derivatives products.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal support and advice on structuring, negotiation and execution of transactions undertaken by the Bank’s Global Markets and Treasury Dept (GMTAP) and be the subject matter expert for all legal issues arising from GMTAP’s business. Transactions undertaken by GMTAP include derivatives and treasury related products such as structured deposits, hedges, liquidity management products, derivative products involving different underlying asset classes.
• Draft, negotiate and review trading agreements including ISDA Master Agreements (ISDA), Credit Support Annexes (CSA), GMRA, CDEA and other market trading documentation and trade confirmation for OTC / structured products.
• Advise on interpretation of laws and regulations relating to derivatives business (e.g. RMR, MAS regulations EMIR etc) and monitor legal, regulatory and industry developments impacting global markets and derivatives.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders including client facilitation teams from Front office / GMTAP and Compliance, Risk, Credit and Operations teams.
• Drafting, updating, improving and maintaining agreements, standard templates, framework, guidance notes and other legal documents for the Bank and to conduct internal trainings.
• Co-ordinating legal matters with other offices under APAC where necessary. Assisting Head of Legal in managing, coordinating and rolling-out initiatives relating to GMTAP’s business involving legal teams across Asia Pacific Division.
• Projects, initiatives and other matters as may be assigned by Head of Legal from time to time.

Qualifications / Requirements

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