Are you a law graduate/ legal professional looking for job opportunities as a Manager (Contracts Attorney (Legal & Compliance)? This opportunity might be of interest to you!
About:
Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments, corporations, institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 85 years, the firm’s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance, Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising, serving and providing new opportunities for its clients.
Morgan Stanley is committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm. At its foundation are five core values — put clients first, do the right thing, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back — that guide its more than 70,000+ employees across 41 countries.
Role:
Manager – Contracts Attorney (Legal & Compliance)
Qualifications:
- Required Skills (Essential)
- Qualified lawyer LLB (LL.M will be an added advantage)
- 3-6 post qualification experience at a law firm or in-house role in financial services
- Solid track record working in a professional environment
- Knowledge
- Understanding of legal documents, business conflicts and terminologies
- Experience with legal drafting skills, derivatives documentation and preferably business conflict management
- Proficient with MS Office
- Skills and Qualities
- Team player who can successfully manage multiple projects and priorities
- Ability to analyze, think independently, form opinions and make decisions
- Ability to anticipate ahead of time and escalate issues as appropriate
- Attention to detail
- Pragmatic and analytical problem solving skills – candidate needs to consistently apply sound judgment
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills — ability to effectively correspond with various groups and senior professionals over email and the telephone
- Must be able to maintain a high level of organization under pressure
- Successfully meet established deadline requirements — display efficient time management skills
- Possess the ability to research and resolve issues independently
- Experience in stakeholder management with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with colleagues across regions and Business Units
- Have the ability to effectively handle a fast paced environment
- Ability to identify and recommend process efficiencies
- Monday to Friday with flexibility to support outside below mentioned standard working hours for time sensitive matters
APAC: 8am — 5pm IST
EMEA:11:30am — 8:30pm IST
AMER:11:30am — 8:30pm IST
Responsibilities:
Primary Responsibilities
Global NDA Desk
This Role Involves Supporting Following Activities
CDT to review, draft and negotiate client facing Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) including Master NDAs, Back-to-Back NDAs/Joinders and Non-Reliance Letters, specific to banking transactions
Discussing with relevant Coverage Lawyers and Business Units regarding NDAs and Non-Reliance Letters, including on matters requiring escalation
CDT to assist in the organization and maintenance of form/template contracts and records of work performed.
Fixed Income Division Legal Coverage
This Role Involves Supporting Following Activities
Basel Netting & Collateral Enforceability Program /Annual Material Jurisdiction Legal Advice Updates: CDT to assist the coverage lawyers with their annual review and update of favorable netting and collateral enforceability legal advice that has been obtained globally in support of derivatives, foreign exchange, commodities, repo, stock loan and other traded products. CDT to liaise with these coverage lawyers and an external consultant/outside counsel to manage the annual update of this legal advice
Guarantee Reviews: CDT to assist the coverage lawyers in the review and negotiation of 3rd party guarantees of trading counterparties in order to meet certain Basel eligibility requirements that enable the Firm’s Credit Department to take favorable capital with respect to these guarantees. In this regard, CDT will ensure the guarantees are Basel compliant and in line with the Firm’s global procedures and liaise with the applicable coverage lawyer to escalate any issues
Local Currency Reviews: The foreign exchange (FX) trading desk executes a wide range of FX transactions involving different currencies with clients and other dealers. Legal coverage team is required to undertake a review of each currency and type of transaction for which the FX desk makes markets, update this review periodically (as specified in applicable procedures), and validate the booking model for each currency with the FX COO team and Operations. These booking models are then the parameters within which the FX desk may execute transactions. CDT will support performing this periodic review, liaise with external counsel for new legal advice for new currencies and/or trade types and assist Legal coverage team in the review and validation of the booking models, annual update of the procedures and desk training
Matrix Desktop & Matrix Mobile/Client Jurisdiction Legal Advice: The FX desk trades electronically with clients over a Morgan Stanley proprietary trading platform called Matrix that enables clients to trade via Matrix either through a desktop and/or mobile phone application. Legal coverage team is required to undertake a review of each jurisdiction where clients are permissioned to trade via either of these channels, and to refresh that advice periodically. CDT will assist the Legal coverage team in obtaining new advice and updating existing advice, as well as assisting in the annual update of the Matrix onboarding procedures
Support legal research activities and projects
Maintain records of work performed. Ensure collaboration and escalations to appropriate stakeholders
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
