Head of Trade Finance Legal, International Bank

Key responsibilities

• Support the legal matters across various products including Structured Trade Finance, Receivables Finance and Supply Chain Finance.
• Manage transactional legal matters on strategic projects and initiatives, and ensuring effective legal risk management across the trade finance business.
• Work closely with internal business units such as compliance, risk management, credit, and operations teams to ensure transactions are legally compliant and commercially viable.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel to ensure high-quality and cost-effective legal support.
• Oversee drafting, negotiating, and reviewing a wide range of legal documents, including financing terms, non-disclosure agreements, engagement letters, mandates, pitch materials, term sheets, financing agreements, legal opinions, etc.