What is this position about?
The Lending & Transaction Banking – Legal, APAC team provides legal support to the Global Banking APAC business across its Global Capital Markets APAC, Transaction Banking APAC and Corporate Client Groups APAC groups.
The role will involve providing legal advice and transaction support across a broad range of international lending and transaction banking activities, with a particular focus on supporting Energy & Infrastructure transactions within the Real Assets business. The successful candidate will work closely with senior members of the team, while taking responsibility for their own matters and transactions appropriate to their level of experience.
Each lawyer in the team is also a member of Legal’s global Financing Platform. This provides regular opportunities to interact with colleagues across the Group, consolidate know-how and participate in cross-border projects and initiatives.
The role provides an opportunity to develop broad lending and transaction banking expertise within a leading international bank and to work closely with business and Legal colleagues across multiple jurisdictions.
What would be your typical day at BNP Paribas look like?
A typical day will involve advising business stakeholders on lending and transaction banking transactions, structuring, drafting and negotiating transaction documentation, managing external counsel and working with colleagues across Legal and the wider bank to deliver solutions for our clients.
The successful candidate will manage matters independently, with appropriate guidance and support from senior lawyers, and will work collaboratively across jurisdictions and areas of expertise.
Primary Role Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Provide timely, pragmatic and solutions-oriented legal advice on syndicated lending and other lending and transaction banking matters across APAC.
- Draft, review and negotiate lending, transaction banking and related transaction documentation.
- Be a trusted point of contact on Energy & Infrastructure lending transactions and related legal matters.
- Work closely with business teams, Risk, Compliance and other internal stakeholders to identify and manage legal and transactional issues.
- Instruct and manage external legal counsel.
- Manage transactions independently, taking responsibility for legal deliverables, timelines and stakeholder engagement, while ensuring alignment with applicable Legal policies and procedures.
- Identify, assess and advise on legal and execution risks, contribute as required to legal risk reporting and permanent control matters and escalate material or complex issues to senior members of the Legal team as appropriate.
- Contribute to the development of legal precedents, processes and know-how and promote consistency in the delivery of legal support across the team and Legal more broadly.
- Lead or contribute to multi-jurisdictional and transversal projects, working closely with Legal colleagues across APAC and globally.
Other contributions
- Contribute to the wider objectives and initiatives of the Financing Platform within Legal.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with business and Legal stakeholders across APAC and beyond.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, training and development initiatives within the team.
- Support initiatives to improve processes and efficiency in the delivery of legal support, including the effective adoption of Legal technology and related transformation initiatives.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across jurisdictions and areas of expertise.
What is required for you to succeed?
- Relevant experience: Minimum 3 years’ post-qualification experience with strong experience in banking and finance, particularly syndicated lending, ideally gained at a leading international law firm and/or financial institution. Experience in other lending or transaction banking matters would be an advantage.
- Technical expertise: Strong understanding of syndicated and secured lending transactions, with practical experience of APLMA/LMA documentation and market standards. Experience in energy and infrastructure finance, project finance, asset finance, export finance and/or trade finance would be desirable.
- Independent judgment: Ability to manage transactions and competing priorities independently, while recognising when to seek guidance or escalate issues.
- Commercial approach: Ability to understand the commercial objectives of the business and provide clear, practical and solutions-oriented legal advice.
- Adaptability and team orientation: A conscientious and collaborative team player who is agile, open to acquiring new skills and able to work across a diverse range of lending and transaction banking products and matters. Able to respond positively to changing business and team needs and to support change.
- Communication and organisation: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, regional and transaction-driven environment.
Required education/certification/licenses:
- Qualified lawyer in Hong Kong, Singapore or at least one relevant common law jurisdiction.
- Strong academic and professional credentials.
- Excellent command of spoken and written English.
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
- BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
- BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
- Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
- BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP Paribas is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
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