Senior Counsel - Structured Investments

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Nationwide’s Investments Legal Practice Group within the Office of the Chief Legal Officer is seeking an experienced attorney to support the Department of Investments with a primary focus on structured finance. This role provides strategic legal guidance on the structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex transactions involving asset-backed securities (ABS), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), structured notes, securitizations, and related structured products.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with senior Investments Legal attorneys, investment professionals, compliance, risk, and other internal stakeholders, as well as external counsel and counter parties, to facilitate transactions and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• Advise on the structuring and execution of structured finance transactions, including securitizations such as ABS, CLOs, RMBS, CMBS, as well as other private asset-backed finance transactions.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of transaction documents, such as indentures, pooling and servicing agreements, offering memoranda, purchase agreements, trust agreements, partnership agreements, and related documentation.

• Provide legal support for structured note issuances, warehouse facilities, and financing arrangements.

• Analyze and interpret offering materials, term sheets, transaction documents, and ongoing deal communications.

• Monitor and advise on regulatory developments impacting structured finance and insurance company investments, including state insurance law, SEC, NAIC, and other applicable requirements.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to assess risk, compliance, and operational considerations for structured transactions.

• Manage relationships with external counsel and counter parties to ensure timely and efficient execution of transactions.

• Support internal governance processes and provide guidance on legal and regulatory obligations related to structured products.

Reporting Relationships:
Reports to VP / AVP / Managing Counsel.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education:

Juris Doctorate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school.

License/Certification/Designation:
Associates reporting within Nationwide’s Office of the Chief Legal Officer (OCLO) who are functioning in attorney roles must be fully licensed in accordance with OCLO policy, in good standing and in compliance with all continuing legal education requirements at all times in the state(s) in which they practice.

Experience:

Typically has 15 or more years of relevant legal experience. May have management experience. Has significant experience with or knowledge of one or more areas of law, complex legal practices and procedures, project management concept and techniques. Considered a subject matter authority within his or her areas of legal expertise. Sound business acuity and knowledge of the business goals and objectives as they relate to the matter at hand.

Knowledge, Abilities and

Skills:

Considered a legal subject matter expert within privacy, real estate, investments, or capital markets related practice areas, having significant legal experience with and knowledge in one or more of those areas. Understanding of complex legal practices and procedures, and familiarity with and significant experience negotiating complex structures, multi-faceted transactions, and joint ventures. Ability to apply practical, reasoned and effective solutions to complex legal matters and issues, including those with no established precedent, and to develop creative solutions to unique legal problems.

Takes the lead role in negotiations that are complex, strategic or sensitive in nature.…