Senior Lawyer for Corporate Lending and Finance

6 days ago


New York, New York, United States Société Générale Assurances Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lending and Structured Finance Attorney to join our team at Société Générale Assurances. As a key member of our legal department, you will provide expert legal and transactional advice to our clients in the Global Lending, Banking and Advisory business lines.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide comprehensive legal and transactional advice to clients in the Global Lending, Banking and Advisory business lines.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate complex credit and lending documentation, as well as transaction agreements.
  • Identify and escalate legal, regulatory, commercial, reputational, operational, and other types of risk affecting covered businesses.
  • Develop and maintain legal and compliance policies and procedures.
  • Advise on legal and regulatory changes and other developments affecting covered products and businesses.
  • Represent the legal department in transversal projects involving front office and other internal stakeholders.
  • Coordinate and supervise activities of external counsel.
Requirements
  • Major US law firm experience (4+ years) with exposure to one or more of the following areas: leveraged finance, asset-based lending, project finance, corporate lending, and bankruptcy/restructuring.
  • At least 4 years of broad-based professional legal experience, with expertise in corporate lending, leveraged finance, project/infrastructure finance, and securitization (CMBS, CLO).
  • Strong experience drafting and reviewing sophisticated credit documentation, as well as more complex financing transactions and structures.
  • Expertise/experience with UCC and bankruptcy issues and background in secured transactions law and documentation.
  • Familiarity with cross-border/multi-jurisdictional structures and issues.
  • Flexible and creative personality, adaptable to changing business and product mix.
  • Strong client service mentality.
  • Ability to balance commercial needs while protecting the interests of the bank.
  • Ability to listen to diverse points of view.
  • Ability to take a position even in absence of broad-based support.
  • Ability to forge a consensus among disparate business and control functions.
  • Ability and willingness to learn new and unfamiliar areas of law and business.
  • Ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a commercially accessible manner.
  • Fluency in English and significant prior experience in legal drafting in English.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with drafting and negotiating financial crime provisions (ABC, AML, sanctions), and structured finance activities of CSF and related laws and regulations, including Volcker and risk retention.
  • Skill and experience in managing interdisciplinary projects and project teams.
  • Experience in a bank or other financial services institution with similar businesses to SG Americas.
Education
  • Active Member, New York State Bar.
  • Law degree from a well-regarded law school (or foreign equivalent).
  • Undergraduate degree from a well-regarded 4-year college/university.


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