Job Description:

Job Title Investment Banking Counsel (Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets)

Corporate Title Vice President

Location New York, NY

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets attorney to join the Legal Department in our New York City office. You will join a team of attorneys responsible for providing legal support and legal risk management to Deutsche Bank’s U.S. M&A and capital markets businesses. This expands across a full range of buyside, sellside, debt and equity transactions, including in the LatAm space. 

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift, and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Negotiating financial advisory engagement letters relating to buyside and sellside transactions and other advisory assignments with investment banking clients, including in the LatAm space, participating in fairness committees, and advising the Business on conflicts of interest matters

• Providing clear and concise advice to business units regarding capital markets transactions for a wide range of domestic and international issuer types and debt and equity products, including registered and 144A/Reg S bond offerings, IPOs and follow-on equity offerings and private placements, including in the LatAm space

• Amending and/or reviewing and advising on pre-transaction and transaction documents from initial pitch phase through closing

• Working with colleagues in the Legal Department and Compliance in the U.S. and overseas to coordinate advice regarding transactions and related matters

• Assisting with policy and guideline formulation and delivering related training on topical issues to the Legal Department and business units

• Create, maintain, and update legal form templates for M&A and capital markets matters. Actively managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk issues and working with business units and legal billing group to manage outside legal counsel engagements and related costs and expenses

How You’ll Lead

• Actively managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk issues and working with business units and legal billing group to manage outside legal counsel engagements and related costs and expenses

Skills You’ll Need

• An active State Bar membership and extensive relevant experience at a major law firm and/or global investment bank

• Extensive experience representing broker-dealers on financial advisory and/or capital markets transactions

• Federal securities law expertise, including familiarity with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations relevant to capital markets transactions

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Qualified lawyer

• Strong analytical, organizational, multi-tasking and prioritizing skills

• Capacity to assume responsibility for your own workload from an early stage

• Ability to appropriately weigh legal risk, reputational and commercial issues in solving sophisticated legal problems

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York is $$125,000 to $280,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of renumeration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click here to learn more!

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