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Corporate Banking Lawyer

United Kingdom, Glasgow · Job Posted February 16, 2026

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Join the Legal team to protect Barclays, its employees, and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include risk mitigation, managing strategic transactions, and overseeing business contracts. As a Barclays Corporate Banking Lawyer VP, you will be a member of Loans and Portfolio Management Legal, supporting the Bank’s lending businesses across Investment Bank, International Corporate Banking and UK Corporate Bank from an origination, execution, distribution and asset management perspective. The role involves advising on a mix of complex and vanilla loan transactions and financing structures as well more broadly in connection with the execution of the strategic priorities of the Legal function and the firm.

Job Responsibility

  • Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies related to the role’s relevant product set, to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules and regulations
  • Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally on a wide range of transactions and projects across trade and working capital finance, cash management, real estate finance, project finance, asset backed finance, lending and other corporate loan finance
  • Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, transaction management, structuring and execution, litigation, commercial contract support, and operations, often in close collaboration with other legal teams across departments and jurisdictions
  • Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the role’s relevant product set, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations
  • Creation and/or review of legal documents for the relevant product set to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Maintaining and updating legal documentation related to the role’s related product set for the corporate banking division
  • Development and delivery of training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the role’s relevant product set
  • Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls

Requirements

  • Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales, with a track record of leading on loan financing transactions in the investment and corporate banking space
  • Good knowledge of the LMA documentation and loan market positions
  • Ability to navigate through the regulatory and compliance landscape
  • Ability to manage business stakeholders of different levels of experience

Nice to have

  • Period of time with a magic or silver circle firm with a global practice
  • Knowledge of various markets from a financing perspective (property, telecoms, utilities, project, infrastructure as well as general corporate)
  • Inhouse legal experience

What we offer

  • Fitness Suite
  • fitness classes
  • an on-site GP
  • a bicycle store
  • rooftop bar
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