Senior Counsel - Structured Investments

Job Conditions

Job Conditions

If you're passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions with excellence, then Nationwide's Legal team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

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.

Would you thrive in an environment where you can deliver top-quality legal services to support the goals and business objectives of a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company? If you possess the legal education, skills and expertise needed to provide outstanding service, advice, and counsel, we want to hear from you!

As Senior Counsel, you will independently provide deep expert legal advice and counsel on highly complex legal matters with senior level leaders. You will negotiate significant income generating deals on behalf of business partners and the enterprise. We’ll count on you to create valuable risk management recommendations by leveraging sound risk assessment information and actively identifying and logically assessing potential legal risks in ambiguous, unique and/or the most complex business situations which have the greatest potential for significant impact to the company.

• Provides legal subject matter expertise on specialized privacy, real estate, investment, or capital markets related matters and transactions.
• Advises, counsels, develops conclusions and recommendations, negotiates on behalf of business partner, drafts necessary legal documents, and closes deals that are financially significant, high-risk, or highly complex and that directly generate income and affect the enterprise’s profitability.
• Creates valuable risk management/mitigation recommendations leveraging sound risk assessment information to further achievement of the enterprise’s privacy, real estate and investment portfolios.
• Regularly interacts with senior leaders in the Company on legal matters within his or her area(s) of…