Asset Based Lending & Mid-Corporate Banking Attorney - Vice President, Assistant General Counsel

Become the trusted advisor that our bankers and underwriters need to keep both our ABL business and our Mid-Corporate business on the cutting edge while doing so in a safe and sound manner.

As an attorney in Commercial and Investment Banking, you will provide legal support to two separate teams: (i) Asset Based Lending, which provides highly structured asset based solutions for a wide array of complex financings across the U.S. and Canada, as well as subsidiaries of U.S. entities located in Europe and Asia, and (ii) the Mid-Corporate team, which provides loans and other products/services to customers with revenue between $100 million and $2 billion. You will interface with customer-facing bankers, risk personnel, and service personnel, as well as advise on deposit, cash management, and other customer and client issues as they arise.  You will leverage your legal knowledge to help drive and coordinate the legal team’s role in supporting and advising on all significant business, controls and compliance initiatives, as well as various cross-line of business projects.  If you are intellectually curious and have a passion for finding compliant solutions across a large organization you may be the perfect fit for our team.

The Legal Department at JPMorgan Chase & Co. manages legal and other risks, advises on products and services, interprets laws and regulations that impact the firm, and advises the firm on other matters.  Our global team is made up of 2,000 lawyers and legal professionals with a reputation as thought leaders who deliver best-in-class services. As trusted advisors, we help the firm’s clients while also safeguarding the integrity of the firm.  We are committed to a culture of inclusivity and belonging, where people can grow and succeed throughout their careers while working for a first-in-class financial institution doing cutting-edge work. If these values resonate with you, we would like to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

• Transactional support, including analysis and advice on structural and risk issues
• Review, negotiate and draft credit and collateral documentation, amendments, waivers, indicative term sheets, proposal and commitment letters, intercreditor agreements and confidentiality agreements
• Represent JPMCB in relationships with other syndicate lenders and borrowers, including providing advice on workout credits
• Support and maintain outside counsel relationships and coordinate engagement of outside counsel
• Escalate issues as appropriate and share potential concerns, issues, and ideas with legal and control functions across the company
• Support and advise the business with respect to treasury management products and client related issues including KYC, privacy, reputational and AML issues which may arise
• Advise the business with respect to new products or pricing, marketing, regulatory and related issues impacting financial institutions operating in a multi-state environment and provide training to the business
• Partner with Risk, Controls, and Compliance colleagues regarding operational and regulatory risk and control issues and the applicability of federal and state law and regulation to the business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skill

•  JD or educational equivalent required with at least 5 years of post-JD practicing experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department at a large bank or other financial services company
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact effectively with clients and partner with other members of the Legal Department and the business to find solutions
• The ability to prioritize work, manage a large number of issues at one time, and interact with senior and executive management
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

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Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience collaborating on a broad range of business strategies and issues with senior management and a reputation for providing valued, and independent counsel and judgment
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements for Commercial and Investment Banking businesses with a focus on secured lending (including asset-based lending)
• Demonstrated leadership, problem solving and project management skills, judgment and character

All candidates for roles in the Legal department must be licensed to practice law in the country of employment and successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.