Deutsche Bank - Associate - Legal - LLB

Corporate Title - Associate

Functional Title Counsel - Legal Technology, Infrastructure and Sourcing

Location - Bangalore / Legal (Regional Office)

- A position is available for an information technology and intellectual property lawyer in DB Legals Technology, Infrastructure and Sourcing (TIS) team in Bangalore, supporting the onshore Legal TIS APAC team in Singapore. The successful candidate will, working with the onshore team as applicable, assist a number of DB internal business lines including DB's Chief Operating Office (technology, operations and corporate services), Procurement, Communications and Human Resources divisions, as well as the front office divisions (the - Clients- ) advising on information technology, outsourcing and intellectual property matters. The successful candidate will be expected to advise more generally on commercial contracts, data protection, and areas of contract and tort including negligence, the law of confidence, and damages.

Job Description - 

Providing day-to-day legal support in technology-related transactions in APAC, including technology and operations outsourcings, business platform subscriptions, telecommunications and software transactions, internal relocations (within the group entities) and the like, working together with onshore Legal, as required, including:

- Contract reviews and negotiation, locally, as well as rolling out global projects into the APAC region, working with the Clients.

- Managing reviews of new technology driven initiatives under jurisdictions around the region (e.g. BYOD, electronic signatures, new communication tools).

- Working with the onshore team, researching on, and advising Clients in relation to legal topics and issues around technology and outsourcing regulation, data protection, telecommunications law, intellectual property, contracting, tort, and related areas.

- Support in management of legal, regulatory and reputational risk in outsourcing and tech-related transactions, in implementation of new technologies (like digitalisation of banking, big data, mobile banking, cloud computing etc.), and in process implementation across 15 jurisdictions.

- Research on topics relevant for Legal, viz, case laws, court decisions, topical subjects.

- Regular template updates and knowledge management function.

- Support and guidance in respect of intragroup documentation.

- Support of review of transactions in the vendor risk management process.

Qualification - 

- Qualified common law jurisdiction lawyer of at least five years PQE.

- Information technology/ intellectual property law/ outsourcing qualifications and/ or experience.

- Business fluent English including contract drafting and negotiations.

- Excellent experience of negotiating and contract law and ideally some knowledge of how banks operate.

- Good understanding of Microsoft Office (in particular Word and Excel).

Skills & Experience - 

- A knowledge of outsourcing transactions and the issues facing an organisation during the lifecycle of such transactions.

- Team player with excellent communication skills, vast creativity and capability to - think out of the box- within a regulated environment.

- Proactive, motivated, commercial and focused on providing timely and creative and resource-efficient solutions to legal problems.

- Experience in working with lawyers across different jurisdictions.

- Willingness to learn new areas of competence and an interest to understand and adapt to new technologies and processes and their legal implementation.

- Disciplined work using available tools and in accordance with procedures including the ability to prioritize and manage large workloads in a small team.

- Global perspective on projects while working with other locations and jurisdictions.