Legal Counsel – Corporate and Investment Banking Lawyer BBVA

BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers legal experts data scientists developers engineers and designers.

BBVA is growing its Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) in Frankfurt and we are hiring an excellent and motivated lawyer to join our Frankfurt CIB legal department reporting directly to the Head of Legal in Germany.

As our new legal counsel you will be the direct contact to our local business teams in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt and will have an opportunity to work closely with our international business and legal teams around the world servicing large multi-national corporate and institutional clients. BBVA CIB provides you an excellent platform for professional development and opportunity to broaden your experience across a wide range of practice areas and to grow holistically as a finance lawyer in a leading international bank.

Please get in touch with us if you are motivated to add real value by application of expert legal skills towards the achievement of ambitious and exciting targets in growing and developing the BBVA CIB business in Germany.

About the job:

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing German law advice to the Corporate and Investment Banking division of the Bank both locally to the head office and to our international branches;

• Drafting reviewing and advising on:

• • lending and finance documentation such as LMA-based syndicated credit facilities bilateral loan agreements project and export finance transactions club deals and security documents;

  • international trade finance arrangements including supply chain and receivables finance letters of credit and guarantees;

  • a wide variety of contracts relating to but not limited to fixed income structured finance; debt capital markets; and reviewing drafting and negotiating master agreements (e.g. DRV ISDA GMSLA).

• Analysing and advising the business areas on all relevant German/EU regulatory matters and ensuring that contracts remain in compliance with applicable law and regulation;

• Liaising with outside counsel as and when required as well as with other CIB lawyers in other jurisdictions.

• Keeping abreast of legislative changes that may affect the Bank.

• Assisting with the development and implementation of policies.

• Providing training on recent legal developments for the business teams.

• Supporting the wider CIB legal team on matters of German law.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fully qualified lawyer or LLM in Germany;

• At least 1-3 years post-qualification experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES/EXPERIENCE/ PROFICIENCIES REQUIRED:

• A good level of experience and proficiency in one or more of the practice areas above and enthusiasm to become proficient in new areas and products;

• Ability to work well and efficiently under pressure;

• Ability to manage a high workload for various business areas;

• Robust and thorough approach to drafting and reviewing of documentation;

• Strong ability to work effectively in multi-cultural geographically dispersed teams;

• Good understanding of the economic background and the regulatory aspects of banking and finance.

• Fluent in business English basic German skills (with room for improvement); Spanish or Turkish language skills helpful but not essential.

ADDITIONAL ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES:

• A punctual professional and reliable team player;

• A service- and goal-oriented working style combined with strong communication skills and a pronounced decision-making ability;

• A motivation to work as a part of a team to take on new challenges and help develop new business areas for growing CIB division of the Bank;

• A joy in working in an international environment and diverse teams

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