Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel, CIB Legal - GCB4 – UK Nationwide (excluding London)

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As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

HSBC’s Legal function plays a critical role in supporting the bank’s global operations, managing legal risk, and ensuring the efficient and effective use of external legal resources. We work closely with leading law firms and alternative legal service providers to secure the best commercial and strategic outcomes for the bank

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) legal team. The Senior 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 an Associate General Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel.

In this role, you will:

• Be a credit and lending subject matter expert in the Banking CIB Legal team supporting the Global Network Banking, Global Corporates and International Mid Market Coverage teams in the UK and/or Europe (the Business) (with a particular focus on “flow” lending transactions and all connected client issues/concerns).
• Support Global Credit and Lending initiatives / projects across CIB broadly (including flow and Investment Banking products) including regional and/or global regulatory/transformation or simplification projects.
• To be the accountable lawyer to the Business on legal issues that the Business faces, ensuring commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal support and advice is provided in a cost-effective manner.
• Provide guidance and support to the Business on non-standard legal and reputational risks connected to clients in their segments.
• To be responsible for helping to create and update negotiation guidelines, playbooks and other support materials to be used by the team.
• Evaluating and responding to changes in legal and regulatory requirements as they arise and apply to Credit & Lending products, processes and controls.

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

• UK qualified lawyer with relevant extensive experience at a comparable institution or law firm, with a strong of understanding of Lending specialism with leveraged or project finance experience desirable but not essential.
• Lateral thinking/problem solving ability.
• Ability to think independently being mindful of maintaining an appropriate balance between management and mitigation of legal risk and business efficacy.
• Deepening knowledge of areas of specialty with ability to take a view as to how law is developing in order to advise client and reach a solution.
• Strong relationship management skills with higher levels of management inspiring confidence of customers/stakeholders.

The base location for this role is UK Nationwide (excluding London) with a hybrid working pattern.

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