Vice President, Asia Pacific Equity Capital Markets Legal Counsel

Join a global financial services leader and make an impact in the fast-paced world of investment banking. As part of our Asia Pacific Banking Legal team, you will collaborate with talented colleagues and business partners across the region. You will help shape complex transactions, ensure regulatory compliance, and contribute to best practices. If you are motivated, intellectually curious, and eager to grow your career in a collaborative environment, this is your opportunity to excel.

As a Vice President in the Asia Pacific Banking Legal team, you primarily provide legal support for equity capital markets activities across Asia Pacific. You work closely with stakeholders in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, delivering practical legal solutions for public and private transactions. You collaborate with colleagues across the region and globally, helping us maintain a best-in-class governance framework and drive business success.

Job responsibilities

• Provide legal support for equity capital markets transactions across Asia Pacific, focusing on stakeholders in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Southeast Asia
• Advise on legal matters where the firm acts as underwriter, sponsor or placement agent in connection with IPOs, equity linked offerings, private placements, block trades and other equity capital markets related transactions
• Support debt capital markets or M&A transactions as part of the broader Asia Pacific Banking Legal team
• Collaborate with legal colleagues in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Shanghai, and Mumbai, as well as teams in other regions
• Review, negotiate, and draft legal documentation including underwriting agreements, subscription and placing agreements, comfort letters, confidentiality agreements and mandate letters.
• Manage relationships with external counsel, including reviewing and negotiating legal opinions and supervising legal due diligence
• Advise business teams on legal, regulatory, due diligence and reputational risk issues, coordinating with risk and control functions to support sound decision-making
• Keep abreast of legal and regulatory developments and contribute to internal trainings and process enhancements
• Promote best practices and help enhance internal processes

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Qualified lawyer from a common law or US jurisdiction with minimum 7 years post-qualification experience
• Experience in equity capital markets gained from a major international law firm or leading investment bank
• Familiarity with Hong Kong listing rules and SFC due diligence requirements in connection with HK IPOs
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal analytical skills with keen attention to detail
• Ability to balance commercial objectives with the protection of the firm’s interests
• Excellent written and spoken English, with outstanding communication skills
• Fluency in Chinese (Mandarin)
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage matters across time zones with regional and global stakeholders
• Proven ability to handle competing priorities, work under pressure, and meet deadlines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• In addition to the required equity capital markets experience set out above, experience supporting M&A and debt capital markets transactions in Asia Pacific
• Demonstrated strategic thought leadership in legal practice
• Experience managing external counsel relationships
• Ability to deliver practical, business-focused legal solutions
• Commitment to continuous learning and process improvement

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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