Netting Lawyer

Overview

Join Barclays as a Netting Lawyer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will provide senior legal support to the global Markets business, advising on multi-faceted legal matters that impact Barclays’ trading activities worldwide. You will identify, assess, and guide the management of legal and reputational risks associated with the bank’s trading relationships and transactions.

A significant aspect involves ensuring the enforce ability of close-out netting and collateral arrangements, which are critical to the effective functioning and risk mitigation of the Markets business.

Provide senior legal support to the global Markets business and advise on multi-faceted legal matters related to trading activities. Identify, assess, and guide management of legal and reputational risks. Ensure enforce ability of close-out netting and collateral arrangements.

• Experience as a qualified lawyer with knowledge gained in private practice and/or in-house
• Ability to identify and communicate legal and commercial risks within governance and risk policies
• Knowledge of derivatives and securities financing master trading agreements
• Prior experience with bankruptcy/insolvency law

• Ability to be effective in a fast-paced and multi-dimensional environment
• Communicate highly detailed legal and qualitative information clearly
• Comfortable delivering advice to both legal and non-legal stakeholders
• Deep interest in drivers of performance and passion for improving things

This role is located in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $200,000
Maximum Salary: $300,000