Join the team which purpose is to serve as exceptional trusted advisors to the firm today and in the future.

Our Legal department is responsible for managing the firm’s exposure to legal risk and providing legal advice to the lines of businesses, corporate functions and the Board of Directors. This includes advising on products and services, tackling complex issues, interpreting laws and regulations, and defending litigation and enforcement matters.

As a Lawyer – Vice President, within Macro and Structured Products Group (SPG) Legal team in the Markets Practice Group, you will be responsible for documenting, reviewing, negotiating and executing a mixture of structured products, with a particular focus on repackagings, secured and unsecured structured notes issued under J.P. Morgan’s structured securities issuance programmes and primary European collateralised loan obligation transactions (CLOs). The products may involve any of the following asset classes – loans (including significant risk transfer synthetic securitisations of loans held by J.P. Morgan), credit, equities, rates, commodities or emerging markets.

Job responsibilities

• Work with other team members in maintaining the repackaging and secured balance sheet structured securities programmes, adding functionality to existing programmes and establishing new issuance platforms
• Identify and advise the business on legal, regulatory and cross-border issues in delivering products to investors and assisting with the structuring, execution and documentation of transactions
• Setting and maintain documentation standards, internal policies, practice guidelines and monitoring legal, regulatory and documentation developments
• Develop and maintain pro-active relationships with business groups in London and across EMEA which originate, trade and sell these products and will provide legal advice on transactions
• Work closely with the business teams, other control areas and Legal colleagues globally

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Licensed to practice law and a member in good standing in the state/jurisdiction in which the position is based or otherwise in compliance with the in-house counsel registration rules of that state/jurisdiction
• Able to advise the business on cross-border issues impacting multiple asset classes and product wrappers and has good commercial awareness
• Has broad skill set that is adaptable to a range of vanilla and structured finance transactions including new or novel asset classes
• Interested in transactional and policy work, including regulatory implementation
• A team player, confident and proactive, enjoys working closely with Sales, Trading, Structuring and control partners
• Well organised with excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively in fast-paced organization