Investment Banking Lawyer

Investment Banking Lawyer

Join us as an Investment Banking Lawyer at Barclays, where you will provide senior legal support as part of the Investment Banking Legal team serving the EMEA region, with a particular focus on our M&A and Equity Capital Markets (ECM) businesses. This will entail providing legal and regulatory support on a variety of transactional and non-transactional matters.

Key Skills Required

• Qualified lawyer in UK or other common law jurisdiction (other jurisdictions may be considered too)
• Strong ECM experience gained in private practice and/or in-house at a financial institution
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to share knowledge proactively.
• Previous experience working effectively in a fast-paced, complex, and multi-dimensional environment.

Other Highly Valued Skills

• Some knowledge of investment banking or other financial services experience

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To ensure that activities of the investment banking division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules, and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the bank's investment banking division on legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, lending, and other corporate finance transactions.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to investment banking activities, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and/or review of legal documents for the investment banking division to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Maintaining and updating form legal documentation for the investment banking division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws, rules, and regulations that may impact the bank's investment banking activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the investment banking activities.
• Act as legal advisor to the Investment banking transaction approval committees on laws, rules, and regulations.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.