AVP - Markets - Prime

As a Barclays AVP - Markets - Prime this is an exciting opportunity where you will be responsible for the legal risk management of a wide variety of equities related and equity derivative transactions for the Asia Pacific Markets business, excluding Japan. Your coverage includes cash equities, prime services, equity financing, equity derivatives, corporate derivatives, and a range of cross border issues.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly
We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing day-to-day, often real time, legal advice required to support the Equities business across APAC
• Developing and maintaining of essential legal documentation including key templates used by the business
• Structuring and regulatory treatment of, and drafting appropriate documentation for a wide range of bespoke products and transactions executed
• Covering a broad range of jurisdictions with many different counterparty types, with particular focus on equities and equity linked derivatives and structured products
• Operating external counsel in jurisdictions across APAC
• Reviewing risk analysis of new active products and business proposals
• Handling the development of legal and compliance policy and procedures

What we're looking for:

• Qualified English law solicitor/attorney (or equivalent common law jurisdiction) with experience in Equities and derivatives in a top tier international financial institution
• Experience with ISDA documentation and various ISDA product definitions as well as the other industry standard master documentation (e.g., GMSLA and GMRA)
• Demonstrable Legal risk management skills
• Ability to read and write Chinese and/or converse in Putonghua would be a strong preference

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Some experience with US, EU and/or Asia derivatives regulation
• Keep senior team members fully updated on transaction progress and regulatory developments and elevate key issues to the attention of appropriate interest groups
• Must have a genuine interest in this area of the law and demonstrate keen observation of topical developments in regulatory change and derivatives throughout Asia
• Open to consider candidates who are experienced in derivatives but not necessarily in the Equities space

Where will you be working?
Our offices are situated in the center of Hong Kong's financial district, at 2 Queen's Road. Cheung Kong Centre is an investment banking hub that offers panoramic views of Victoria Harbour and Kowloon Peninsula. There is a variety of local amenities and you will be just a short walk from shopping malls, health clubs and multiple transport links.