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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 Credit Lawyer AVP at Barclays, you will work in the EMEA credit legal team primarily supporting the loan trading business and the illiquid credit business. Your role will involve day-to-day coverage of the Credit Trading and Credit Structuring businesses of the Markets division of Barclays Investment Bank in UK and Europe, which includes trading of bonds and other fixed income instruments, loans, special situations, claims, credit derivatives, illiquid credit, structured credit and the provision of financing. You will be fully involved throughout the full client and transaction lifecycle, supporting on all aspects from terms of business, NDAs, master agreements, transaction confirmations, amendments and lifecycle events, through to restructures and terminations.

Job Responsibility:

  • Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
  • Legal advice and support to the business units in the Markets division on matters arising from the relevant products/services provided by the Markets division
  • Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the Markets business units such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations
  • Creation and review of legal documents for the business units in the Markets division to ensure the bank’s compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
  • Maintaining and updating template legal documentation for the Markets division
  • Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations that may impact the activities of the bank's Markets business units
  • Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the activities of the Markets business units
  • 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:

  • Be a qualified lawyer
  • Have prior experience in financial services activities in-house and/or private practice, particularly in trading and finance
  • Have excellent drafting and negotiation skills
  • Have the ability to navigate complex legal and regulatory issues across a broad range of products in a fast paced and deadline driven environment

Nice to have:

  • Experience with credit trading involving the loan secondary market
  • Experience with restructuring & insolvency situations
  • General experience supporting an investment bank trading business (i.e. wholesale market trading in securities, derivatives and loans)
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
  • Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
  • Commitment to colleague wellbeing and inclusion
  • International scale offering variety, depth and breadth of experience
  • Chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues
  • Encouragement to embrace mobility and explore operations to build career

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 23, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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