Job description
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Global Legal plays an important role in protecting the Group’s reputation by helping to future-proof the organisation through robust legal risk and issue advisory. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all global businesses and functions, the team offers a diverse range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all countries and territories in which our businesses operate.
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Legal Counsel- HSBC Infrastructure Finance, Global Functions.
Principal Responsibilities
- Providing expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that legal and reputational risks of the HSBC Infrastructure Finance (HIF) business are proactively identified and mitigated
- Assisting with the preparation, negotiation and review of various legal documents including confidentiality agreements (including consideration of conflicts of interest issues), engagement letters, mandates, term sheets, finance documents (including loan agreements and intercreditor agreements), legal opinions, export credit agency documents, and other transactional documents and agreements
- Coordinating and managing relationships between internal and external stakeholders, businesses and support functions such as external clients and advisors, relationship management bankers, compliance and risk functions, agency, operations, credit risk, sustainability risk and project managers
- Being innovative and suggesting solutions that are pragmatic and commercially sound, in addition to being legally sound, aligned with HSBC’s strategy and within HSBC’s risk parameters
- Collaborating with lawyers across the region, providing support, leadership and guidance as required, in particular promoting consistency in approach across the global export finance businesses as appropriate
- Providing legal input on local, regional and / or global legal projects
- Promoting the adoption of best practice and documentation standards, including representing HSBC at industry associations (as required)
- Monitoring major legislative changes and assessing the impact of such changes on HSBC’s business
Requirements
- The successful candidate should have experience in the following areas – (1) infrastructure finance, (2) export finance, and (3) shipping and aircraft finance. The candidate will also have a sound grasp of green loan and sustainability linked loan products, as well as experience in acquisition financing. Excellent knowledge of APLMA / LMA documentation is required
- Qualified lawyer with solid post-qualification experience gained in a relevant jurisdiction
- Strong knowledge and experience with complex lending and project finance, the infrastructure sector, export finance, asset financing transactions as well as sustainable finance products
- Understanding of cross-border financing documentation, market practices and processes, including APLMA and LMA documentation
- Ability to prioritise and to work under time pressure
- Strong oral and written communication and inter-personal skills
- Lateral thinking/problem solving ability
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