Lawyer Senior Lawyer, Europe & Americas

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Lawyer/ Senior Lawyer Europe & America

Role location: London

We are Australias first bank and oldest company and one of four major banking organisations in Australia. This opportunity sits in our London office working for Westpac Institutional Bank (WIB) the division of Westpac which services the needs of our corporate institutional and governmental clients.

The Europe & America (E&A) Legal team is a collegiate corporate legal team providing high quality advice to support the international aspirations of WIB a Division of Westpac Group. Through partnership with key internal and external stakeholders this role will support the Westpac Groups international legal and risk strategy by influencing negotiating and consulting. Our legal advice is accurate timely cost effective and commercial.

You will provide legal advice and support to WIBs Financial Markets (FM) line of business (LOB) which provides finance solutions for Westpacs institutional and corporate clients operating outside of Australia predominantly in the UK Europe and Americas.

Your primary focus will be structuring and negotiating financial markets trading documentation as well as supporting new product proposals and strategic initiatives including the build-out of Westpacs international repo offering across E&A. You will also advise on UK and EU regulatory issues that impact financial markets products and documentation. The demands of the business (and E&A Legals response to that demand) may require you to also support other WIB business areas and branch needs from time to time.

• Provide high-quality legal advice and support for FMs E&A business in connection with structured financing transactions including hedging and derivatives products loan-linked hedging deal-contingent trades and related documentation such as ISDA master agreements; repos and related documentation such as GMRAs; and other ad-hoc documentation queries including trading platform/venue access agreements service agreements broker agreements and delegated reporting agreements.
• Assist with the development of template documentation across a variety of financial market product types and asset classes including FX rates and commodities as well as advise on legal questions arising in respect of bespoke transactions.
• Participate in new product proposals and strategic initiatives provide subject matter expertise and interpretations of relevant laws rules regulations and industry practices and advise business management on legal matters impacting the business.
• Proactively identify evaluate and contribute to the appropriate management of legal regulatory and reputational risk by collaborating with second line compliance and the first line business controls team follow relevant legal developments participate in internal projects and elevate as appropriate