Associate Legal Market

About the Role

As an Associate in Commercial Investment Banking Markets Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support to Markets businesses engaged in various transactions, including:

• Derivatives transactions across all asset classes
• Structured investments/financial products (notes, warrants, certificates)
• Cash equities
• Global investor services (prime brokerage, securities financing)
• Foreign exchange
• Commodities
• Futures
• Derivatives clearing and intermediation

You will be a member of the MCC Markets Team based in Mumbai, reporting to a team lead who is accountable to the Markets Practice Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Handle negotiations of trading documentation (including but not limited to Futures & Options Agreement, Execution Agreements, OTC Clearing Addendums, FXPB Agreements, CDEA).
• Resolve issues raised by clients and the F&DC Business related to legal agreements.
• Review and support of financial transactional documentation including credit, trading, TOBs, prime brokerage, derivatives, clearing, and regulatory driven documentation.
• Review of constitutional documents to ensure requisite corporate consents, capacity, and authority prior to agreement finalization.
• Provide support on global documentation or remediation projects.
• Perform gap analysis and summary of transaction and client-specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals.
• Manage data from agreements into internal systems and assist in maintaining databases.
• Draft, review, and finalize documentation including notices, consents, and amendments in accordance with existing templates.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Frequent interaction with Sales, Transition, Client Account Management, Credit Risk, Operations, and Legal internally.
• External interaction with clients and clients' legal advisors.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years PQE in professional practice and/or in-house experience covering Markets related work in a comparable financial institution.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to interact with senior business personnel and stakeholders.
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work collaboratively in a high-performing team.
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively at local, regional, and global levels.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, cross-jurisdiction team to achieve common goals.
• Ability to identify and escalate issues timely and appropriately.
• Comfortable working to metrics and data measurement systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and within tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Competency in the use of technology, documentation management systems, and shared databases will be viewed favorably.