Legal Associate

Legal Associate Country: Germany **WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING** **SCIB is looking for a **Legal Associate **based in our Frankfurt office.** **WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY** **Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) **is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs. Legal Frankfurt acts a strategic partner to the business, covering global transactions with Santander's multinational customers headquartered in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. We also act as corporate protectors, keeping the organization safe from potentially catastrophic costs and significant losses of reputation (especially in an age of global media), provide our advice in line with formal rules (legal and commercial) but also voluntary ethical standards and employee values (e.g., honesty, fairness, trustworthiness, reliability, responsiveness, loyalty, transparency and commitment to inclusion). We incorporate Santander's values of simple, personal and fair into everything that we do. Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and business prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management. **WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING** We need someone like you to help us in different fronts: On a daily basis, we cover wholesale operations of clients headquartered in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia, providing legal assistance to the branch and to Santander units worldwide to the extent they concern credit (bilateral and syndicated lending), cash management and global transaction banking (e.g., factoring, reverse factoring, invoice discounting) matters. Moreover, we provide German law assistance to HQ, other branches and affiliates around the world upon request. The typical daily workload includes: - Review of guarantees/SBLCs/LCs, NDAs and other legal documentation (e.g., syndicated loan agreements/foreign law opinions, cash management, factoring/confirming, discounting, umbrella agreements, etc.) - Attending client phone calls and providing notes of teleconferences - maintaining a cross-functional dialogue on a global level with relevant internal and external stakeholders - Local coordination and implementation of Group initiatives and policies - providing fast-paced input to restructuring cases (potentially increasing due to COVID-19 repercussions) - Reviewing and coordinating of foreign law transactions booked in Frankfurt and confirming programs using the Frankfurt platform - providing advice on increasingly complex EU regulations and directives / assessment of their effect on the business EXPERIENCE - Work experience as an external lawyer in a major international law firm for one to three years - work experience as in-house legal counsel would be welcome EDUCATION - Qualification as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) / 2. Staatsexamen with at least above average ("vollbefriedigend") or EU law degree SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE - Trade and export finance, corporate law, financial law, etc. experience and interest (documented) - further interest and capability to conduct legal research, write papers, prepare conferences, etc. - Familiarity with tax law would be welcome but is not mandatory. OTHER INFORMATION