EMEA Loans and Special Situations Trading - Transaction Management Execution (Legally Qualified) - Associate or Vice President

Job Description

The successful candidate will provide legal transaction support for secondary loan trading purposes within  J.P. Morgan's EMEA Leveraged Finance Trading team facilitating trades across multiple jurisdictions.

As a qualified lawyer with secondary loan trading experience, you have the opportunity to join J.P. Morgan's Leveraged Finance Trading team in London. The role will see you provide transaction advice and support for secondary loan trading matters focusing on high-profit trades and strategic growth. We offer a collaborative environment with opportunities for your personal growth and development.  

As an Associate or Vice President focusing on Transaction execution and Management, you will help the trading team to ensure it complies with the transfer and disclosure provisions governing its activities and work with internal and external counsel on any evolving legal challenges the desk faces. You'll be a valued source of advice and support on European loan trading matters throughout J.P. Morgan and assist the Bank’s adherence to its regulatory requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist with high-profit trades, negotiating trade terms and liaising with counsel where necessary.
• Support the trading team in reviewing and negotiating NDA and transfer provisions.
• Analyse legal, regulatory, and other challenges surrounding equity positions in restructured companies.
• Obtain necessary sign-offs and inputs on trades, liaising with different groups throughout J.P. Morgan.
• Provide advice and support for debt buy-back transactions and input on market initiatives.
• Support J.P. Morgan’s  closing group through  the trade settlement lifecycle.
• Work alongside salespeople and traders on trade terms and NDA requirements.
• Liaise with various teams across J.P. Morgan to aid understanding of the loan product.
• Ensure adherence to internal policies and legal/regulatory requirements.
• Drive management and strategic growth of the European Leveraged Finance Trading business.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Demonstrable post-qualification experience with a major City law firm or equivalent with an in-house legal department/trading desk of a complex financial institution.
• Experience with drafting and negotiating credit documentation, including trade documentation.
• Strong verbal and written skills, along with outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Mature personality to enable various direct company and investor interaction.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Intellectual curiosity and a heightened willingness to learn new skills and new elements of law and regulation across multiple jurisdictions, so that potential issues are pre-emptively considered and succinctly presented.
• Proven ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and manage more than one project simultaneously.
• Intellectual curiosity and a highly developed willingness to learn new skills and new elements of transactions, structures, law and regulation across multiple jurisdictions.

Note: This role is not based in the JPMorgan Legal Department and will not be a practicing attorney role providing independent legal advice and counsel.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.