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VICE PRESIDENT - COUNSEL (EQUITY DERIVATIVES) (JOB NUMBER: LEG000579)
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<p><b>Business Overview:</b></p>
<p> The Group Legal N.A., Global Markets team provides transactional, structural, advisory and documentation support for BNPP’s Global Market businesses in North and Latin America and Canada, including with respect to Equity Derivatives, QIS, ISDA master agreements and other derivatives trading documentation.</p>
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<p>The team is seeking an attorney for a permanent role to join the Equity Derivatives (EQD) Legal Team within Global Markets Americas Legal. Will consider internal mobility candidates from offices outside of New York. </p>
<p><b>*</b><b><i>Please note this role can be based in either New York, NY or Jersey City, NJ.</i></b></p>
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<p><b> Candidate Success Factors:</b></p>
<p> Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:</p>
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<li>Results and Impact</li>
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<li>Able to influence peers and team.</li>
<li>Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.</li>
<li>Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. </li>
<li>Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.</li>
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<li>Leadership and Collaboration:</li>
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<li>Creates trust with colleagues.</li>
<li>Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.</li>
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<li>Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: </li>
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<li>Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.</li>
<li>Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.</li>
<li>Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. </li>
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<li>Compliance Culture and Conduct: </li>
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<li>Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.</li>
<li>Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.</li>
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<p><b>Responsibilities: </b></p>
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<li>Analyze and review complex corporate/strategic equity derivative transactions including, but not limited to, affiliate/issuer transactions, capped call and call spreads, pre-paid forwards, 10b5-1/10b-18 plans, ASRs, structured buybacks, and margin loans. </li>
<li>Review and negotiate flow and exotic equity derivatives transaction documentation; draft custom derivative templates; provide legal advice to front office personnel in relation to standard and bespoke derivatives transactions.</li>
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<li> Review and negotiate custom index documentation, including licenses, dealer agreements, marketing materials, and rulebooks; draft new custom index disclosures; address various equity derivatives/custom index documentation-related inquiries from internal stakeholders and clients. </li>
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<li>Draft, review and negotiate master agreements including ISDAs, CSAs, MRAs, GMRAs, MSFTAs, Account Control Agreements and related derivatives documentation, as well as other financing and trading products documentation, with outside clients. </li>
<li>Escalate various negotiation points to business, risk, collateral, treasury and other internal functions for review and approval in connection with derivative transactions.</li>
<li>Review clients’ formation documents to determine capacity and authority to engage in derivatives trading and review loan and security documentation to determine scope of security interests for hedging counterparties.</li>
<li>Analyze derivatives trading-related legal and regulatory issues, including close-out netting, ERISA, 1940 Act requirements, applicability of various U.S. and cross-border regulations, including Dodd-Frank and Margin Rules, trading venue agreements, and discuss the issues with internal stakeholders and clients.</li>
<li>Maintain and update internal legal documentation databases and pipelines and attend status meetings and conference calls.</li>
<li>Manage ad hoc projects as required.</li>
<li>Work closely with GM Legal teams in NY, including, but not limited to, coordinating workload and training. </li>
<li>Participate in industry working group calls (including ISDA) and update GM Legal teams and business management as appropriate.</li>
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<p><b>Minimum Required Qualifications:</b></p>
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<li> Law Degree from an accredited law school</li>
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<li> Admission to (or eligible for admission to) New York bar </li>
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<li> Preferred 2-3 years of law firm or in-house experience</li>
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<li> Familiarity with US and cross-border derivatives regulatory framework (including Dodd-Frank and EMIR requirements for financial institutions and corporates) and US securities laws (including the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934) and Investment Company and Advisors Act as they pertain to derivatives and product disclosures</li>
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<li>Preferred experience in corporate/strategic equity transactions and negotiating and drafting equity derivative documentation. Willing to train candidates with less direct subject matter expertise</li>
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<p><b> Preferred Qualifications: </b></p>
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<li> Preferred experience in: </li>
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o Negotiating with external clients
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o Advising capital markets trading businesses
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<li> Excellent: </li>
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o Negotiation skills
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o Oral and written communication skills
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o Analytical skills
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o Organization skills
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o Interpersonal skills
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<li> Experience handling multiple projects simultaneously.</li>
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<li> Ability to prioritize workload, manage time efficiently while retaining attention to detail. </li>
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<li> Work well in a fast-paced environment.</li>
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<li> Work across the organization as required and maintain high standards of professionalism in all dealings with team members and internal/external clients.</li>
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<li> Technical: </li>
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o Microsoft Office
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o Proficient in Excel
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<p><b> FINRA Registrations Required:</b> </p>
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<li> Not applicable</li>
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<p><b>CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): </b></p>
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<li> Not applicable</li>
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<p><b>SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:</b></p>
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<li> Not applicable</li>
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<p><i>The expected starting salary range for this position in New York is between $182,000 and $243,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.</i></p>
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<p><b> About BNP Paribas:</b></p>
<p> BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.</p>
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<p> The bank employs nearly 6,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC.</p>
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<p>As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose - to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.</p>
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<p>BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World - https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/</p>
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<p><b><i> BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.</i></b></p>
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<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Primary Location</b></h2>
<b>:</b> US-NY-New York
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<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Job Type</b></h2>
<b>:</b> Standard / Permanent
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<b>:</b> MISCELLANEOUS
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<b> Education Level</b>
<b>:</b> Master Degree or equivalent (> 4 years)
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<b> Experience Level</b>
<b>:</b> At least 3 years
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<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b> Schedule</b></h2>
<b>:</b> Full-time
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<b> Entity</b>
<b>:</b> BNP Paribas CIB
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