Job Description

AVP \xe2\x80\x93 Banking \xe2\x80\x93 Debt Legal
Singapore
As a Barclays AVP \xe2\x80\x93 Banking - Debt Legal, you will be a lawyer in the APAC regions (excluding Japan) providing legal risk management to the Barclays International business, with particular emphasis on supporting the Barclays Bank PLC Corporate and Investment Bank with corporate loans, leveraged finance, trade finance, secondary loan trading and special situations. Your responsibility includes legal advice to product specialists and relationship directors in Barclays International working on transactions involving lending and trade products. Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs. We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?

• Providing support and legal advice to the business teams by advising on structuring loan transactions in various jurisdictions, reviewing and drafting legal documentation
• Assisting transaction management on legal documentation and managing external counsel
• Coordinating, supervising and reviewing legal analysis undertaken by local counsel in respect of relevant legal issues
• Providing support and legal advice to the Special Situations team by reviewing draft documentations for the relevant banking products
• Supervising and managing loan default, debt recovery, security enforcement, work-outs and restructurings and related processes
• Assisting the origination teams in Asia Pacific with reviewing and drafting documentation in relation to mandate letters, fee letters and confidentiality agreements
• Working closely with the Banking Legal team to assist with transaction due diligence and documentation execution
• Accountable for managing external counsel in jurisdictions across APAC and managing related costs in connection with Debt transactions

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Qualified English law solicitor/attorney (or other common law jurisdiction)
• At least 2 years PQE (UK equivalent) in the banking and finance department of a top tier English or Singapore law firm or international bank or financial institution
• Deal experience in syndicated cross border lending into a number of Asia-Pacific jurisdictions
• Expertise in project finance, structured trade finance and/or capital markets (bond or note issuance)

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Conversant in the use and negotiation of LMA/APLMA loan and secondary trading documentation
• Experience and good knowledge of cross border lending and security issues in a number of Asia-Pacific jurisdictions
• Must have drafting skills and be highly organised, structured and professional
• Must have a genuine interest in this area of the law and demonstrate keen observation of topical developments in cross border lending throughout Asia

Where will you be working? Our office is located in Marina Bay Financial Centre, which has been carefully crafted into a \xe2\x80\x9ccity in a garden\xe2\x80\x9d. Overlooking the scenic skyline along the Marina Bay waterfront, the green spaces and rooftop terraces have been designed to optimise employee well-being. The centre provides an integrated live-work-play development, surrounded by shops, restaurants, gyms and an alfresco dining area. Our convenient office location means you\xe2\x80\x99re just a 5-minute walk from the nearest MRT station.
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