Description
About the Legal Shared Services Team (‘LSST’)
The Legal Shared Services Team (‘LSST’) is the multi-disciplinary legal team supporting all lines of business including Commercial Banking, Consumer and Community Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking and Asset and Wealth Management across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific (‘Global Legal Teams’). The Team works on high-volume, contract and document work, legal analysis, and legal process optimization, with opportunities to contribute to automation and AI enablement —working closely with onshore Practice Group attorneys and stakeholders, along with specialized corporate secretarial services to the Office of the Secretary (OTS) practice group. You must have strong legal analytical and collaborative skills, be able to work independently as well as collaboratively within the team and be a true "self-starter."
Job Summary
As an Associate in the Legal Shared Services Team (LSST), you will have broad exposure across practice areas and opportunities to build legal, operational,
and stakeholder-management skills in a fast-paced global workplace.
Job Responsibilities
- Transactional legal Support: Draft, review, and negotiate a range of corporate documents with clients (e.g., NDAs (including back to back and joinders), non-reliance & reliance letters, commitment & syndication letters, medium term notes issuances and program updates);
- Providing legal analysis and support on legal projects and documentation including collaboration on large/complex matters, deals, or remediation projects;
- Conduct legal research and analyze relevant laws/requirements;
- Conceptualizing and implementing novel processes and optimizing existing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness;
- Provide gap analysis and summary of transaction and client specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals to identify discrepancies, escalat