Senior Legal Counsel (ID: 0000IRCT)Some careers grow faster than others. If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC.The role involves providing legal advice, guidance and support to the MSS business line of HSBC across MENAT, which includes the Securities Services, Global Markets and Markets Treasury business teams and its supporting functions, such as Markets Operations, Client Operations, Risk, Tax, Finance, Company Secretary and the offshore document negotiation team). The role is based in our Dubai office.Key responsibilities• Advising on OTC derivatives, FX, loan hedging, repos, stock lending, margin loans, repack transactions, Islamic finance (FX, derivatives, repo and money markets), EMTN updates, vanilla and structured note issuances, ESG KPI-linked repos and derivatives, and regulatory capital issuances (AT1 and Tier 2).• Preparing/ negotiating/ reviewing a wide range of templates and transaction documents including ISDA, CSA, GMRA, GMSLA, LMA, security documentation, TMA, DFT Terms confirmations for FX, PRS and CCS, collateralised commodity Murabaha, agency agreements, offering memorandums, programme documents and pricing supplements, rates and fixed income term sheets, electronic trading agreements, NDAs, guarantees, legal opinions, MIFID II terms of business, and shareholder and board resolutions.• Preparing and presenting legal submissions to the bank’s global netting committee on the enforceability of netting, set-off and collateral in MENAT under conventional and Islamic products• Providing legal support and advice on regulatory issues, such as EMIR/ margin rules, financial collateral regulations, IBOR demise, product governance around the manufacture and distribution of structured products and CSDR.• Supporting our custody business.• Advising on the roll out of new products across Global Markets and Markets Treasury in MENAT.• Representing the bank at industry association meetings, such as ISDA, GMRA and ISDA/IIFM.• Provide counsel and legal support on a variety of legal matters, or in a specialist area, including matters that may be complex or novel.• Be a trusted adviser to the MSS business by ensuring that commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal support and advice is provided in a cost-effective manner to the MSS department.• Participate effectively as part of the Dubai Legal team.• The role requires an understanding of the structure of the HSBC Group and its culture and the ability to handle increasingly complex legal issues, often under pressure and to tight deadlines.