Senior Legal Counsel

Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation.

We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

Job Description

This person manages legal risks in relation to Global Markets and Group Funding businesses globally in accordance with FAB Group Legal Department policies and procedures. The role holder should be able to work autonomously but should seek the Head of Legal – Global Markets & Group Funding’s input on unusual situations, complex matters, and issues that may pose significant legal, financial and / or reputational risk to FAB Group.

The role holder will have in depth knowledge of derivatives and structured products and, to a lesser extent, debt capital markets and custody. The role holder will provide value-added legal support primarily to the Global Markets business, and also support the Group Funding and Custody businesses. This will include, amongst other things :

• Drafting and negotiating derivatives transaction documentation with a particular emphasis on structured derivatives (TRS, structured equity financings etc.) across all asset classes (credit, equity, rates, commodities and FX).
• Drafting and negotiating securities lending and repo transaction documentation, particularly structured repos.
• Advising how to structure transactions in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements including, without limitation, EMIR, Dodd-Frank and MiFID2.
• Managing the legal aspects of issuing bonds and structured notes from FAB’s short and medium-term debt funding programs and structured notes programs in both conventional and Islamic format.
• Providing legal guidance to FAB’s in-house Global Markets Documentation Team (i.e. ISDA Negotiators) when this team of paralegals is drafting and negotiating derivatives master agreements including ISDAs, GMRAs, TMAs and associated collateralisation and other ancillary documentation (e.g. CSAs, MCAs, Execution Agreements etc).
• Negotiating custody agreements and advising on structured custody solutions.
• Creating and updating FAB’s template documentation.

Core Responsibilities

Legal Documentation and Review

Knowledge of External Environment

Knowledge Sharing

Learning and Development

Specific Accountability

LI-MA3

Qualifications

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