Vice President - Legal - ISDA - LLB/LLM - Financial Services Group

Asia-based financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries is looking for a Vice President with 10-18 years of experience and should be either a LLB / LLM

- A senior practicing qualified derivatives lawyer with at least ten years of relevant experience earned in major law firms or investment banks located in either India or abroad

- The role requires a senior derivatives lawyer to form part of a high performing OTC Industry Master Agreement legal team to review, negotiate and advise on both vanilla and complex master agreement related matters. The candidate must be extremely knowledgeable in this area, preferably on matters relevant to the EMEA region. The candidate must be a native or fluent English speaker with impeccable communication skills - both written and verbal

- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating English law Master Agreement documentation for OTC Derivative, Repo and Securities Lending transactions including but not limited to the ISDA Master Agreements (1992 and 2002 and ancillary documentation), Credit Support Annexes,GMRAs, and GMLSAs

- Carrying out legal reviews and assessments of OTC transaction proposals

- Reviewing constitutional documents, netting, collateral and capacity opinions as well as assisting with the drafting of additional bespoke provisions for particular jurisdictions or counterparty types

- Keeping informed of industry and regulatory developments such as EMIR, Dodd Frank and BCBS/IOSCO Margin Requirements

- Being the lead internal advisor to the front office businesses for both vanilla and complex matters and liaising with relevant internal stakeholders including trading, sales, operations, credit, treasury, and tax accordingly; and

- Advising ISDA legal support and technology teams to ensure the firm's legal systems correctly reflect agreed Master Agreement terms.

- The Offshore Legal team provides assistance to the various legal teams in Tokyo, AEJ, EMEA andUSA. The members of the team are responsible for a variety of matters relating to Corporate andTransaction Legal related matters which are supported from India