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Global Legal plays an important role in protecting the Group’s reputation by helping to future-proof the organisation through robust legal risk and issue advisory. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all global businesses and functions, the team offers a diverse range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all countries and territories in which our businesses operate.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Legal Counsel.

Principal Responsibilities

Providing expert and professional legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that legal and reputational risks of the HIF business are proactively identified and mitigatedAssisting with the preparation, negotiation and review of various legal documents including confidentiality agreements (including consideration of conflicts of interest issues), engagement letters, mandates, term sheets, finance documents (including loan agreements and intercreditor agreements), legal opinions, export credit agency documents, and other transactional documents and agreementsCoordinating and managing relationships between internal and external stakeholders, businesses and support functions such as external clients and advisors, relationship management bankers, compliance and risk functions, agency, operations, credit risk, sustainability risk and project managersBeing innovative and suggesting solutions that are pragmatic and commercially sound, in addition to being legally sound, aligned with HSBC’s strategy and within HSBC’s risk parametersCollaborating with lawyers across the region, providing support, leadership and guidance as required, in particular promoting consistency in approach across the global export finance businesses as appropriateProviding legal input on local, regional and / or global legal projectsPromoting the adoption of best practice and documentation standards, including representing HSBC at industry associations (as required)Monitoring major legislative changes and assessing the impact of such changes on HSBC’s business