Counsel 3 - Product - Officer- Hybrid

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Legal counsel (Counsel III) for Citi’s Investment Banking Legal team in Asia Pacific, working in a team of lawyers based in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Mumbai with coverage focusing on all jurisdictions in Asia where Citi operates. This is an intermediate role within the team.

The position will be based in the team’s the Mumbai Global Legal Office and is to provide support for the Investment Banking Legal team throughout Citi’s Asia North and Asia South Clusters. Coverage will span Citi’s key investment banking business lines, namely debt capital markets, equity capital markets, and M&A advisory. This coverage includes review, negotiation and approval of key legal documentation within these business lines, as well as providing counsel to the businesses that the team supports.

Employees in this position may have a background in one or more of these business lines to begin with, but will over time be trained to build out their experience across all products under the team’s coverage. This role itself will expand alongside the development of the employee’s expertise, with training and feedback being a key factor in both.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as **Counsel 3 - Product - Officer
- Hybrid** (Internal Job Title: Officer
- C11) based in Mumbai. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

- We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.
- We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.
- We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.

**In this role, you’re expected to**:

- Legal coverage of transactions_: Typical transactions include: IPOs, follow-on offerings, block trades, convertible bond offerings in equity capital markets, and investment grade and high yield bond deals and liability management transactions in debt capital markets. M&A would include both private sales or acquisitions and public takeovers.

Typical responsibilities are:

- Deal document review and negotiation_: full suite of transaction documents, such as, engagement letters, underwriting agreements, legal opinions, comfort letters, bond terms and conditions, trust deeds, fiscal agency agreements.
- Legal risk management_: identifying deviations from Citi standards, or other areas of legal, contractual and franchise risk; escalating to, and assisting in the resolution of such items with, global, regional and country partners in Legal and other functions; clear communication of risks and resolution with business partners.
- Liaising with external counsels_: working closely with law firms on episodic transactions and managing law firm relationships.
- Internal projects_: Working on special projects from time to time, for example, assessing impact of regulatory changes on Citi’s regional or global business, and liaising with global/regional partners to form an implementation plan.

Notes on Counsel III level general expectations: The Counsel III is an intermediate level position responsible for providing legal guidance and thought leadership to the Business. The overall objective of this role is to provide legal support, advice, and guidance to the Business.

This role requires a pragmatic, proactive attorney with thorough understanding of the Business, combined with a solid conceptual / practical grounding in the laws and regulations for the geographies in which we operate. Provides input into strategic decisions, exercising sound legal judgement to develop proactive, risk-appropriate, and commercially practical business-oriented solutions.

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborates across internal lines of business, control/support functions and/or external