Senior Legal Counsel

Job Summary

Provide legal support and advice on:

• building ventures in the UAE
• execution of minority investments in Fintech companies (and divestments)
• operation and governance of ventures and SCV’s investment funds
• M&A and fundraising (collaborating with the Group’s M&A Legal team).
  
  

Provide strategic and transactional legal support and advice to the SCV team and other business stakeholders on creating disruptive ventures and other digital transformation initiatives (including co-creation agreements with Fintechs, partnership and cooperation agreements, joint ventures and consortia membership agreements).

Acting as the legal point of contact for specific ventures across their journey from ideation to go-live.

Key Responsibilities

Provide legal advice and transactional legal support on new business ventures and other digital transformation initiatives:

• Act as central legal contact point as ventures are created and progress to target countries; Provide legal support on contract documentation with partners and vendors, e.g. NDAs, LOIs, JVs, collaboration agreements, data transfer agreements, POC’s and outsourcing agreements;
• Provide legal advisory support on ventures including outsourcing matters, data protection, intra group arrangements, cybersecurity, intellectual property and regulatory engagements;
• Drafting and negotiating a range of agreements including software development, SaaS, software maintenance, proof of concept, sales / distribution, strategic partnerships, hosting, data transfer, professional services, consultancy, platform terms of use and privacy policies;
• Effectively manage external counsel.
  
  

Participate In All Aspects Of Fintech Investment And Fundraising Activities Including Due Diligence, Structuring, Negotiating, Completing The Transaction And Subsequent Investment Portfolio Management

• Negotiate NDAs, and transactional documents such as term sheets, subscription agreements, shareholders’ agreements, side letters, etc
• Instruct & manage external counsel on Fintech investment and fundraising transactions; Manage legal due diligence;
• Manage the entire legal process to completion;
• Participate in portfolio management and exit activity; and
• Provide legal input to the ongoing governance and management of all SCV investment activities
  
  

Key Stakeholders

Head of Legal, SC Ventures

Chief Operating Officer, SC Ventures

Chief Financial Officer, SC Ventures

Venture Founders

Venture Operating Members

Group Legal

Group Risk

Group Compliance

Qualifications

• LAW DEGREE FROM A REPUTABLE INSTITUTION IN ONE OF THE COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS
• SOLICITOR OR EQUIVALENT (MINIMUM OF 6 YEARS PQE)
  
  

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, weve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If youre looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we cant wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, youll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
  
  

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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