Commercial Investment Banking Markets Legal Counsel
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29-10-2025
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Job Summary
Join our dynamic and fast paced team in Legal function. This is a unique opportunity for you to be a part of our Legal function in India.
Job Summary:
As a Commercial Investment Banking Markets Legal Counsel in the legal function you will provide legal support to the Markets businesses engaged in derivatives transactions across all asset classes structured investments/financial products in the form of notes warrants and certificates linked to multiple asset classes cash equities global investor services (prime brokerage and securities financing) as well as foreign exchange commodities futures and derivatives clearing and intermediation. A Markets Legal team has been formed in the Mumbai Corporate Center (MCC Markets team) which is as an integral part of the Markets Practice Group working closely and interacting with Markets Practice Group lawyers across EMEA and APAC region. You will be a member of the MCC Markets Team based in Mumbai. You will be reporting into a team lead for Markets in the MCC who in turn is accountable to the Markets Practice Group.
Job Responsibilities
- Review and support of wholesale financial transactional documentation including credit trading TOBs prime brokerage derivatives and regulatory driven documentation;
- Review of constitutional documents to ensure that all the requisite corporate consents and capacity and authority requirements are in place prior to finalization ofagreements and subsequent commencement of business ortrading;
- Provide support on global documentation or remediationprojects;
- Provide gap analysis and summary of transaction and client specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals toidentify discrepancies escalation mechanisms and managing remediationexercises;
- Manage data from standardized or negotiated agreements into internal systems and assisting in the maintenance of databases relating to firm-wideinitiatives; and
- Drafting reviewing and finalizing documentation includingnotices consents MOUs LOIs and RFPs accordance with existingtemplates.
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
- Minimum 5 years PQE in professional practice and/or in in-house experience covering Markets related work in a comparable financial institution;
- Strong drafting negotiation and legal analytical skills;
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to interact with senior business personnel and stakeholders in other functions;
- Self-directed and highly motivated attitude coupled with an ability to work collaboratively in a high performing team;
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively at a local regional and globallevel and work in a cross-functional cross-jurisdiction team to achieve common goals;
- Ability to identify and escalate issues timely andappropriately;
- Comfortable working to metrics and data measurement systems;and
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and within tightdeadlines.
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Competency in the use of technology documentation management systems andshared databases will be viewedfavorably;
All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.
Attorney candidates must be in compliance with all relevant licensing requirements including the requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment.
Key Skills
- Financial Services
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Banking
- Corporate Finance
- Analysis Skills
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Securities Law
- Investment Banking
- Private equity
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Bloomberg
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more
