Securities Services lawyer

About Konexo and Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland is a global law firm with 74 offices across 35 countries worldwide committed to delivering client service excellence. As a full service law practice, Eversheds Sutherland acts for many sectors across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the US providing legal advice to clients in each of its practice areas including Real Estate, Corporate Finance, Commercial Advisory, Employment, Labour and Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Management.

Konexo is an established alternative legal services division of Eversheds Sutherland, created to meet client demand for high quality, interim legal, HR and compliance professionals. Konexo Legal Resourcing is a well-established and fast growing team created to meet demand for high quality interim lawyers, paralegals and legal project managers to support both clients and internal Eversheds Sutherland teams.

We are looking for Securities Services lawyers based in Malaysia.

What you should have :

• A legal background with a minimum 8 years’ PQE.
• Excellent knowledge of a variety of traded markets master agreement documentation and their underlying products (in particular, ISDA Master Agreements and repurchase agreements, structured products, direct custody and securities services agreements) and credit, legal, regulatory and operational issues.
• A solid understanding of the roles, responsibilities, dependencies and dynamics between key banking functions such as Sales, Trading, Counterparty Credit Risk, Market Risk, Treasury and Counterparty Exposure Management.
• Solid understanding of trustee and fiduciary duties pertaining to unit trusts industry and direct custody and clearing business in Malaysia.
• Negotiating experience of derivatives master agreement documentation in connection with secured financing arrangements (e.g. syndicated loans, leveraged finance, club deals), in particular, from the perspective of a hedge counterparty.
• Ability to prioritise workload in terms of legal risk and commercial consideration.
• Prior experience in private trust litigation is a plus but not essential.

The benefits of joining Konexo Legal Resourcing :

What you get :

We are one of the first law practices to enter the flexible legal resourcing market, we have a wealth of experience in placing legal professionals both with Eversheds Sutherland teams and with international clients across a variety of sectors.

Due to the volume of responses we receive, unfortunately if you have not heard back from us within 4 weeks of applying, we are not progressing your application. Please feel free to review our vacancies at for roles in the future as this is updated frequently.

If you want to take charge of your career, work with a global law firm and some of the best companies in the world, then we would love to hear from you!

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