MUFG is seeking a seasoned transactional attorney with a minimum of 5 years’ experience to support the legal execution of structured trade and commodity finance transactions. The successful candidate will lead legal support across the full transaction lifecycle—from structuring and term sheet input to documentation, negotiation, and post-close matters—while advising on complex instruments such as borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, receivables purchase agreements, letters of credit, and participation structures.
Corporate Title: Vice President
Key responsibilities
- Legal support for transactions end-to-end: structure, term-sheet input, drafting, negotiation, closing, and post-close support for bilateral and syndicated facilities.
- Draft/negotiate/review core documentation: borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, receivables purchase agreements, letters of credit (standby/commercial) and reimbursement agreements, master participation agreements and participation certificates/funding requests, LC discounting, drafts/bills of exchange, guarantees, collateral/security agreements, account control/lockbox, intercreditor, consents & releases, assignments, and notices.
- Letters of Credit advisory: issuance/confirmation/assignment mechanics; reimbursement, discrepancies and fraud issues; standby vs commercial LC nuances; align documentation and operational controls with UCP 600, ISP98, URDG 758 and UCC Article 5.
- Apply structured-lending and receivables financing fundamentals: true sale, security interests, secured loans; expertise with UCC Article 9 perfection/priority rules, set-off/dilution and anti-assignment; purchase eligibility/concentration limits; collections/servicing and step-in rights.
- Integrate credit insurance/ECA support where applicable (loss-payee/assignment, exclusions, claims process, aggregation/tenor limits).
- Manage cross-border matters (governing law, licensing, data privacy, recognition, local enforcement rights/perfection); coordinate with local counsel.
- Partner closely with Credit, Risk, Ops/Trade Finance Operations, and Compliance/Sanctions; ensure consistency across term sheets, approvals, and final docs.
- Maintain playbooks, clause libraries, and fallbacks; contribute training and horizon-scanning on market/documentation trends.
- Instruct and manage outside counsel to scope, budget, and timetable.
Skills and experience
- New York Bar required.
- 5–8 years post-qualification at a top law firm and/or in-house at a top investment bank.
- Strong lending-side experience in trade/commodity finance and receivables finance.
- Hands-on drafting/negotiation across: borrowing-base and prepayment facilities, LCs and reimbursement agreements, receivables purchase agreements, drafts/bills of exchange, master participation agreements, import/pre-export financing, LC discounting, guarantees/security, intercreditor, deposit account control agreements, and consents & releases.
- Strong working knowledge of UCC Articles 9, 5, and 3 and LC rules (UCP 600, ISP98, URDG 758).
- Familiarity with LMA/LSTA conventions for syndicated touchpoints; BAFT receivables and drafts cross-border practices and agreements.
- Experience integrating credit insurance/ECA into lending/RPA structures.
- Proven ability to run multiple complex bilateral deals independently, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders under tight timelines.
