# Trade Finance Lawyer

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Canary Wharf, 1 Churchill Place
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Trade Finance Lawyer to join our team in London, supporting the Trade & Working Capital business across the bank from an origination, execution, structuring, and syndication perspective.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in finance transactional work, with a focus on trade finance and a thorough knowledge of general banking/finance law.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop and implement best practice legal strategies related to trade finance products

- Provide subject matter legal advice and support to the bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally

- Review and create legal documents to ensure adherence with applicable laws, rules, and regulations

- Develop and deliver training programs to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements

- Pro-actively identify, communicate, and provide legal advice on applicable laws, rules, and regulations

Requirements:

- Currently working in a law firm or an in-house department of a reputable bank focusing on finance transactional work

- English law qualified Solicitor with thorough knowledge of general banking/finance law

- Proven track record on a range of general banking work, structured transactions, and experience in cross-border transactions

- Ability to tackle new technical areas of law without prior experience

- Strong technical legal skills, including ability to draft and negotiate legal documentation to the highest standard

Preferred Skills:

- Specialist expertise of trade finance products, including bonds, guarantees, and indemnities facilities, export credit agency-backed financings, discounting of letters of credit and promissory notes, and cross-border issues associated with such financings

- Experience gained working in-house for a financial institution

- Ability to manage varied workload under pressure and deal with competing priorities

- Strong commercial focus and ability to think laterally

- Good communicator with strong personal impact and a strong team player

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## Skills

### Required
- English law
- general banking/finance law
- trade finance
- legal documentation
- regulatory requirements

### Nice to have
- specialist expertise of trade finance products
- export credit agency-backed financings
- cross-border issues
- commercial focus
- communication skills

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