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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. You will have exposure to new product development, legal issue identification, and regulatory horizon scanning across global markets.
Job Responsibility:
Act as a trusted advisor within the Markets Legal team, providing expert guidance across fixed income financing activities
Support complex financing transactions, advise on regulatory developments, and partner closely with stakeholders to identify legal risks and deliver commercially sound solutions
Play a key role in negotiating trading agreements, supporting clearing frameworks, and ensuring compliance within a dynamic and evolving financial services environment
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
Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings
Creation and review of legal documents for the business units in the Markets division
Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws
Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements
Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations
Requirements:
Experience with fixed income financing, including repo and sponsored (cleared) repo, and fixed income prime brokerage clearing
Experience with Futures/Cleared derivatives, prime brokerage and similar financing businesses (e.g., financing/clearing of securities and cleared derivatives)
Knowledge of broker-dealer and futures commission merchant rules (e.g., margin, customer protection, insolvency rules and regulations) and the US securities and derivatives markets, hedge funds and the financial markets more broadly
Experience with negotiation of master trading agreements and netting
Familiarity with non-US legal and regulatory frameworks (UK, EU, APAC)
New York qualified lawyer
Nice to have:
Motivated and collaborative mindset
Legal analytical skills and ability to think creatively and identify innovative solutions
Ability to effectively communicate with key stakeholders
Ample presentation skills
Relevant experience in a financial services company
What we offer:
Wellness center equipped with modern amenities, including fitness centres
Health center providing a range of services, including primary and urgent care, wellness exams, health coaching, and vaccinations
Office features a variety of sophisticated dining options, including a colleague restaurant and a private executive dining room