About this role:
The Wells Fargo Legal Department is seeking an attorney to join the Legal team supporting the Wealth & Investment Management ("WIM") advisory business. This Associate Counsel will be providing legal support for portfolio management and trading function across several legal entities, multiple product lines and distribution channels.
The candidate will provide legal counsel on all aspects of the Core and Custom Lending business of WIM's Banking, Lending, & Trust Center of Excellence, with a focus on securities based lending, investor real estate, and specialized finance including private equity and hedge fund lending and law firm and partner capital lending. The position will report to the Managing Counsel of the Core and Custom Lending Team, part of the Legal Department's WIM Division.
In this role, you will:

• Provide routine legal guidance on well-defined issues or claims against the Company, working under the direction of more senior counsel.
• Conduct research on various legal matters, in support of more senior counsel.
• Develop subject matter knowledge and risk assessment skill, and builds relationships with internal and external clients.
• Monitor legal and regulatory changes, escalating issues to more senior members of the team as needed.
• Collaborate within the department and across business and staff functions to address legal and risk issues in a manner consistent with the best interests of Wells Fargo.
• Develop specialization within law while developing broader and deeper expertise
• Review issues, policies or procedures for which answers can be quickly obtained related to low-to-medium risk deliverables
• Receive direction from supervisor and exercise independent judgment while developing understanding of policies, procedures, specialization, and compliance requirements

Required Qualifications, US:

• 6 months of Law experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Active State Bar membership or the equivalent in a country outside the United States

Desired Qualifications:

• Advise on legal issues relating to custom commercial and consumer securities based lending products as well as packaged consumer securities based lending products, custom investor real estate loans and lines, specialized finance credit such as life insurance premium finance, lending against qualified replacement property to create liquidity for ESOP participants, private equity and hedge fund lending, aircraft and yacht lending, and professional enterprise lending, such as accounting and law firm lending, and related partner capital lending.
• Foster an environment that ensures strong communication and cooperation across the business, Compliance, Risk and Audit to facilitate transparency, balance and credible challenge.
• Sustain a strong risk management culture that identifies, provides oversight and escalation of existing and emerging compliance and/or risk issues across business groups, legal entities, geographies and jurisdictions and ensure that escalated risk issues receive appropriate senior management attention.
• Identify and analyze complex legal issues arising out of strategic initiatives as well as develop conclusions and recommend solutions while working directly with business partners.
• Ability to research law and regulations and develop advice with respect to complex legal issues using public as well as company websites and databases.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience working in a fast paced highly complex environment.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively organize and prioritize work while handling multiple matters

Job Expectations:

• Position will require onsite presence from any of the required locations listed below
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Posting End Date:
7 Feb 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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