Legal, Structured Finance Attorney, Vice President, Dallas, New York City

The Legal Department seeks a Senior Attorney to support the firm's Structured Finance and Mortgage businesses, preferably with strong commercial real estate finance experience. These are multi-strategy businesses that acquire, originate finance, trade/make markets in, advise on and engage in various financing and securities transactions involving commercial and residential mortgage loans, corporate loans (CLOs), secured and unsecured consumer and Fintech loans, transportation loans and leases and other esoteric assets. The businesses may act as an advisor, financier and/or principal counterparty to clients.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Advise the business teams on all aspects of structured finance transactions, including commercial mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions, commercial mortgage loan re-purchase facilities, CMBS and CRE CLO warehouses and the related securities offerings.
• Identify and address legal, policy, regulatory, commercial and reputational issues/risks
• Advise trading desks on secondary sales/trading of RMBS, CMBS, ABS, CLO and other fixed income securities
• Analyze and lead implementation of financial regulatory reform (Conflicts of Interest, Dodd Frank, Reg AB II and other relevant regulations)
• Manage all aspects of external counsel relationships and engagement
• Assist in the creation and implementation of firm policies, procedures and guidelines
• Provide subject matter expertise on regulatory and litigation matters relating to structured finance and mortgage matters
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders including legal, conflicts, compliance, controller and audit teams to ensure consistency of coverage and adherence to firm policies, procedures and best practices

Qualifications/Skills:

• 6+ years of post-JD, transaction-based legal experience at a reputable law firm, investment bank or other financial institution
• Strong substantive knowledge and significant experience in structured finance and capital markets including financing, asset acquisition and securitization transactions, preferably with strong commercial real estate finance experience
• Experience representing underwriters, issuers, sponsors and/ or managers in a wide range of CMBS, RMBS, CLO, consumer loans and other asset-backed financings, consisting of registered public offerings, exempt transactions and international and domestic offerings
• Familiarity with broker-dealer regulation, Dodd Frank, Reg AB, CFPB, state and federal regulators, lending, bankruptcy, and with various fixed income and derivative products
• Possess excellent time management/organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple transactions with competing deadlines
• Motivation to expand skill set and excel in a fast paced and rapidly changing business environment with minimum supervision
• Excellent communication/presentation skills
• Self-starter with strong self-confidence, good judgement, sound decision making and problem-solving skills
• Adept at developing interpersonal relationships
  

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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