Transactional Lending Attorney, Vice President

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Main Purpose of the role:

MUFG is seeking an experienced finance attorney to join the Americas Legal Department as a Vice President & Counsel.  The primary responsibility of this position is to support various teams and products within our Global Corporate Investment Bank.  A successful candidate will be familiar with all manners of transaction documentation and legal issues with respect to syndicated credit facilities (both as an administrative agent and lender), secured and unsecured bilateral credit facilities, letters of credit and other various credit products, such as direct lending facilities, cross-border lending, project finance and middle market lending.  Additionally, experience with restucturings, both in and out of court, would be beneficial.

Corporate Title: Vice President & Counsel

Key Responsibilities:

• Review, draft and negotiate documentation for and provide legal advice related to:
  • Bilateral facilities.
  • Syndicated facilities (as a lead lender/agent or lender);
  • Letters of credit; and
  • Other credit products.
• Advise and assist business units in the development and structuring of new and complex products.
• Support new initiatives within the Americas Legal Department and MUFG as a whole.
• Directly interact with MUFG’s clients, both in negotiating agreements and in assisting the business unit in explaining products to clients.
• Advise on the legal, regulatory and reputational issues and risks arising in transactions and in the non-transactional aspects of the operation and business activities of MUFG (regionally and internationally as required) and work closely with the wider Americas regulatory and international legal teams to serve business seamlessly.
• Manage the legal spend with respect to the business area including management of relationships with and selection, retention and costs of external counsel.
• Provide training on legal and regulatory issues.
• Participate in internal working groups and committees as relevant.
• Advise on, participate in and assist in the implementation of new projects, new businesses and other enterprise initiatives.

Skills and experience:

• Qualified in NY with a minimum of three years of relevant experience.
• Experience with a top law firm and/or experience working in-house within a financial organization.
• Ability to look at unfamiliar or new product areas and be able to analyze the relevant issues.
• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of commercial awareness and to make sound judgment calls in a fast-moving business environment, together with an ability to identify and manage contractual risk.
• Ability to recognize problematic issues and to plan and execute strategies for addressing.

Personal requirements:

• Strong communication skills and relationship building qualities to maintain existing and build new relationships across the organization.
• Solid decision making and the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• Structured and logical approach to work with capability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Ability to thrive as part of a team in a fast-paced, ever-changing and open-office environment.
• Willingness to learn new areas of law to cover new businesses and initiatives.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Maintain a calm approach, with the ability to perform well in pressurized situations.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $172K - $222K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.