Description du poste
Company Description
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.
Our teams of experts in close to 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.
As part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A+, Moody's: A2, Fitch Ratings: A+,R&I: A+).
Job Description
You join the Debt Capital Markets team as a lawyer, where you play a key role in various transactions, characterized by the diversity of issuers and the different structures and modalities of operations.
You will provide legal advice at Natixis' front office (origination and syndication) in France and abroad, as well as negotiate and implement the legal documentation for bond issues carried out by our various clients.
On a daily basis, your tasks are to:
- Work upstream with the origination teams and other functions involved in the design of bond issues and related transactions, as well as the structuring of transaction terms;
- Develop and negotiate legal documentation relating to bond issues (mandates, prospectuses...);
- Working with the origination teams and other functions involved (including possibly the front-office securitization teams) in connection with covered bond issues and related transactions, as well as structuring the terms of the transactions;
- Work with the legal securitization team and other involved functions (including front-office securitization teams) on the issuance and placement aspects of securities issued under securitization transactions, as well as reviewing the terms of these securities;
- Interact with the law firms involved in the operations, the other banks involved and the various internal functions concerned; and
- Ensure monitoring and compliance with applicable regulations and market practices.
You mainly work in the fields of securities law and financial law, contract law and international law, mainly in French and English law.
You work in an international environment, within a community of experts who place excellence, impact and collective action at the heart of everything they undertake.
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This position is based in Paris with the possibility to work from home.
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Join us to express your potential in an environment of trust and collaboration where your ideas have a real impact.
We place our employees at the center of our attention. Internal mobility, career development and training programs allow you to grow and flourish throughout your journey.
You work in a hybrid, inclusive and collaborative work environment.
You also have the opportunity to commit yourself in favor of society and causes that are important to you through our corporate foundation.
About the recruitment process
You will be contacted by one of our recruiters before meeting our business experts (manager, team member or business sector).
Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience
About you: If this is your description, you are made to work with us!
With a higher education in French business and financial law, ideally supplemented by a degree in Anglo-Saxon law or experience in an Anglo-Saxon country, you have at least 4 years of experience in the field of bond issuances, particularly covered bonds. Experience in securitisation transactions and complementary financial knowledge would be assets.
You master:
- Financial law;
- Bond issues, including covered bonds;
- Securitization operations, ideally.
You have excellent interpersonal skills, a very good ability to listen, and you are:
- Curious and agile;
- Pragmatic;
- Organized.
You are proficient in English with a C1 level.