HSBC Group

If you’re looking to take an exciting new direction with your HSBC career, an internal move can open the door to many opportunities, allowing you to take on a new challenge, and develop your skills. Bring your knowledge of our brand to a new role and grow yourself further. 

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 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 an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Senior Legal Counsel – Leverage Finance

A move across the business allows you to continue to access tailored professional development opportunities, and our fantastic benefits packages.

In this role you will:

•    Negotiate and review contractual documentation relating to leveraged and event finance and to manage documentation risk.  Documentation includes term sheets, mandate/engagement letters, loan facility, high yield, intercreditor and ancillary documentation for cross-border transactions on primarily cov-lite Sponsor TLB and HY transactions but also corporate lending and Infrastructure deals for EMEA.
•    Advise on effective structuring of transactions and review and analyse proposed structures/ tax structure papers, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of security, guarantee, leakage, subordination and intercreditor issues.
•    Have very close day to day liaison with business origination team, colleagues in Legal and external counsel.
•    Provide precise instruction and management of external lawyers and external legal costs; and
•    Lead multiple complex transactions simultaneously and work under pressure to tight deadlines.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

•    A qualified banking lawyer (with extensive TLB acquisition finance experience for top tier PE buy-outs as a pre-requisite with depth knowledge of incurrence style covenants in both the European and US market).
•    Ability to lead multiple complex transactions simultaneously; ability to prioritise and work under pressure to tight deadlines.
•    Ability to work independently but also provide support to team colleagues within an experienced team.
•    Lateral thinking/problem solving.
•    The ability to be innovative and suggest solutions that work well commercially and within the relevant legal framework.

This is a hybrid working role with the base location as London.

To support you with putting your best foot forward for our internal opportunities, you are invited to take advantage of our CV and Interview workshops, hosted by our Talent Acquisition team. To find out more and register to attend please copy and paste this link into your browser - https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/sf/learning?destUrl=https%3a%2f%2fhsbcbank%2eplateau%2ecom%2flearning%2fuser%2fdeeplink%5fredirect%2ejsp%3flinkId%3dITEM%5fDETAILS%26componentID%3dLDXX1066V%2d000%2dENGBR%26componentTypeID%3dVILT%26revisionDate%3d1692279360000%26fromSF%3dY&company=hsbcholdin

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our recruitment processes are accessible to everyone -  no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age.

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you’d like to apply for one of our roles and need adjustments made, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 207 832 8500.

You can find out more about the recruitment journey and what to expect by viewing our Recruitment Process FAQs in HR Direct and by clicking here (only available via internal access).