Legal Counsel

The Legal Counsel will;

• Contribute to the development, implementation, and review of the legal risk management framework for a designated area of legal risk, including controls and identify opportunities for improvement to manage the risk appetite for the Bank in key areas of legal risk.
• Act as the subject matter expert on existing and emerging legal requirements affecting designated business activities, (e.g. general lending, asset finance, project finance, equity, employment etc) to ensure they are within the legal risk appetite.
• Review on complex, bespoke infrastructure transactions with the Bank providing debt, equity or guarantees advise and partner with key stakeholders to provide independent innovative solutions and influence to ensure appropriate solutions and sound legal position.
• Act as a trusted partner with key stakeholders across the Bank to identify, assess and mitigate legal risks and determine appropriate controls and resources, including specialist external legal panels, to affectively control the risks.
• Monitor, challenge and report on designated legal risks with senior internal stakeholders and Investment and Engagement Committees, to protect the Bank from legal challenge and ensure compliance with constitutional and governance requirements.
• Deal with litigation or claims made against the Bank for designated activities, representing the Bank's position with external parties, to drive an outcome that is in line with the Bank's legal appetite whilst achieving constitutional and governance requirements are satisfied.
• Lead designated legal projects and work in matrix teams to deliver joint outputs that ensure that management of legal risk is embedded across all designated activities.