Director, Senior Counsel - CLOs & Securitizations

• Opportunity to join investment bank's growing legal team
• Role will focus legal matters related to securitized products, CLOs, CMBS/RMBS

About Our Client

Global bank.

Job Description

• Provide legal support to structured finance, capital markets, and investment banking businesses across a broad range of securitization and financing transactions.
• Serve as the lead legal advisor for Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) transactions, including warehouse facilities, new issuances, refinancings, resets, amendments, and ongoing deal management matters.
• Advise on the structuring, development, and execution of CLO products, including legal, regulatory, bankruptcy, securities, and risk considerations affecting CLO platforms and transactions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate documentation for CLO transactions, coordinating closely with bankers, structurers, portfolio managers, trustees, collateral managers, rating agencies, investors, and external counsel.
• Support securitization transactions across a variety of asset classes, including asset-backed securities (ABS), residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), and other structured credit products.
• Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents and ancillary agreements related to structured finance and capital markets activities.
• Advise business stakeholders on the development and implementation of new products, transaction structures, and strategic business initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze legal and regulatory developments impacting structured finance markets and provide practical guidance regarding business, transactional, and compliance implications.
• Partner with compliance, risk management, operations, and other corporate functions to assess regulatory requirements and enhance policies, procedures, and controls.
• Provide legal advice on corporate, securities, finance, creditor rights, and bankruptcy matters relevant to securitization and structured finance activities.
• Serve as a key legal stakeholder on cross-functional projects, regulatory change initiatives, and strategic business developments.
• Prepare clear, timely, and commercially focused legal analyses, memoranda, and recommendations for senior management and internal clients.
• Coordinate with industry groups, market participants, and external counsel on matters affecting structured finance and securitization businesses.
• Manage external counsel relationships, including matter oversight, budgeting, and cost management.
• Identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks while supporting commercial objectives and business growth initiatives.
• Collaborate effectively across legal, business, risk, compliance, and operational teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

The Successful Applicant

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• 7+ years of legal experience advising on securitization, structured finance, and capital markets transactions at a leading law firm, financial institution, asset manager, or other sophisticated market participant.
• Deep expertise in Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), including warehouse financings, new issuances, refinancings, resets, amendments, and ongoing transaction management, with a strong understanding of applicable market practices, transaction structures, and regulatory considerations.
• Significant experience with securitization products and structures, including CLOs, ABS, RMBS, CMBS, and related financing vehicles.
• Strong understanding of the legal, regulatory, and structural considerations applicable to securitization transactions and structured credit products.
• Comprehensive knowledge of corporate, securities, finance, secured lending, creditor rights, and bankruptcy laws relevant to capital markets and structured finance activities.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex transaction documentation and managing transactions from structuring through execution.
• Ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice while balancing commercial objectives with legal and regulatory risk management considerations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making skills, with sound legal judgment in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively influence and advise senior stakeholders across business, legal, risk, and compliance functions.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, work independently, and perform effectively under pressure.
• Collaborative approach with experience working on cross-functional teams and supporting strategic business initiatives.
• High level of professionalism, discretion, and ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to develop expertise in emerging products, regulations, and areas of law.

What's on Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Bonus+ LTIP
• Additional benefits
• Hybrid role - 3x in office / 2x WFH

Contact

Jennifer Pettigrew

Quote job ref

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