Senior Legal Counsel

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Legal Counsel.

In this role you will:

• Providing expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that legal and reputational risks of the Debt Capital Markets business are proactively identified and mitigated.
• Assisting with the preparation, negotiation and review of legal documentation, such as confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, term sheets and contractual documentation.
• Ensuring that the legal function serves as a proactive and strategic partner to the business.
• Coordinating and managing relationships between internal and external stakeholders, businesses and support functions such as external clients, professional advisors, relationship management and product bankers, compliance and risk functions and agency/trustee teams.
• 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 internal lawyers across the Legal Department, providing support, leadership and subject matter expertise and guidance as required.
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To be successful you will need: 

• Qualified lawyer with solid post-qualification experience of at least 4 years gained in a relevant jurisdiction.
• Strong knowledge and experience with debt capital markets transactions, such as primary issuance of vanilla bonds (investment grade and high yield) and capital securities, GMTN/EMTN programmes, as well as liability management. 
• Understanding of cross-border financing issues and documentation in North Asia markets, as well as market practices and processes, such as ICMA protocols.
• Ability to prioritise and to work under time pressure
• Strong oral and written communication and inter-personal skills
• Lateral thinking/problem solving ability