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Senior Legal Counsel

New York, New York Permanent $265,000 - $305,000 per year View Job Description
The Senior Counsel will handle legal matters pertaining to structured products, securitizations (CLOs), and mortgage-backed securitizations (CMBS).
  • Exciting opportunity to join Legal team of financial services institution
  • Role will focus on securitizations, ABS, CMBS, CLOs and Structured Products

About Our Client

Financial services institution.

Job Description

Role will report directly to the Deputy General Counsel and will handle the following:

  • Participation on Transaction Review Committee; review and negotiate engagement letters
  • Primary support for CLO deal team on approved transactions (manage external counsel, etc) and on ABS, CMBS transactions, some review of diligence files
  • Review term sheets & offering documents, note purchase agreements, placement agreements on transactions (144 A deals)
  • Provide legal support to loan trading business, specifically the negotiation of referral agreements and future development of loan trading capabilities
  • Provide negotiation of confidentiality agreements relating to loan trading business
  • Track regulatory developments/litigation/new legal issues having an effect on mortgage business

The Successful Applicant

  • JD from top law school with excellent academic credentials and GPA
  • Admitted to NY State Bar
  • 7+ years of experience, gained at a top law firm, in-house or combination thereof
  • Experience representing underwriters, issuers, sponsors and/ or managers in a wide range of CMBS, RMBS, CLO, consumer loans and other asset-backed financings, consisting of registered public offerings, exempt transactions and cross border offerings
  • Familiarity with broker-dealer regulation, Dodd Frank, Reg AB, CFPB, state and federal regulations impacting various fixed income and derivative products and asset classes (RMBS, CMBS, CLO, consumer loans, CDS, ABS, TRS, etc.).
  • Experience analyzing legal and regulatory issues in area of practice and provide effective counsel to clients on complex legal matters
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Team player

What's on Offer

  • Competitive base salary
  • Bonus
  • Additional benefits
  • Work/life balance
  • Hybrid role
Contact
Jennifer Pettigrew
Quote job ref
JN-072026-7053554

Job summary

Function
Legal
Subsector
Legal Subsector
Industry
Financial Services
Location
New York
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Jennifer Pettigrew
Job reference
JN-072026-7053554
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