Senior Legal Counsel - Banking Group
Skills/Experience Required
The candidate must have the following skills and experience:
• In depth experience in secured and unsecured lending and problem loan workouts;
• Extensive experience negotiating and familiarity with different types of contracts;
• Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of the organization and provide legal advice and counsel on a wide range of banking and other matters;
• Ability to conduct in depth legal analysis and provide practical, solutions-oriented advice;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to work collaboratively within teams both within the Legal Department and with business partners;
• Interested and enthusiastic about getting involved in other emerging legal and/or regulatory issues.
Experience Required
Candidates should have 7+ years of experience working in a major law firm or in-house practice in relevant areas.
For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees globally. We serve the world’s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.
We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.
As of March 31, 2018, Northern Trust Corporation had:
$10.8 trillion in assets under custody/administration
$8.1 trillion in assets under custody
$1.2 trillion in assets under management
$130 billion in banking assets