attorney-advisor (general)

3 weeks ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States Non-Departmental Agency Full time
Summary

This position is located in the Office of General Counsel (OGC), United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S.

Government's development finance bank.

The successful candidate will serve as an Assistant General Counsel and advise on the legal and policy aspects of all, one, or more of DFC's finance equity investment, and/or political risk insurance programs.


NOTE: The duty location may be negotiable upon selection.

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Duties

Attorneys are assigned to work in a single program in teams aligned with internal clients but may rotate, as needed, to work in other programs.

Work includes legal due diligence and reviewing, drafting and/or negotiating all transaction documents leading to closing, as well as monitoring existing transactions and restructuring or collecting on defaulted loans.

The types of financing may vary, and include from project finance, infrastructure loans, loans and guarantees to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and micro-finance institutions (MFls) and other financial intermediaries, to loans to including private equity funds.

The loans can be high or low in dollar values but often involve complex negotiation and documentation. DFC's equity investment program includes direct investment in portfolio companies as well as private equity investment funds.

DFC's political risk insurance program offers coverage against political violence, currency inconvertibility, and expropriation and includes specialized capital markets products that insure against sovereign and sub sovereign risk.

Projects are always located in one or more a low-income, lower middle­-income, or upper middle-income countries.

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