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Investment Banking Counsel (Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Team Lead) - Director - Military Veterans

at Deutsche Bank

Position Overview

Job Title Investment Banking Counsel (Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Team Lead)

Corporate Title Director

Location New York, NY

Overview

We are seeking an experienced attorney to head the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team in the Legal Department in our New York City office. You will lead a team of attorneys responsible for providing legal support and legal risk management to Deutsche Bank's U.S. M&A and Capital Markets businesses. This expands across a full range of buyside and sellside, and debt and equity transactions.

What We Offer You

  • A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
  • A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
  • Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
  • Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
  • Educational resources, matching gift, and volunteer programs


What You'll Do
  • Negotiating financial advisory engagement letters relating to buyside and sellside transactions and other advisory assignments with investment banking clients, participating in fairness committees, and advising the Business on conflicts of interest matters
  • Providing clear and concise advice to business units regarding capital markets transactions for a wide range of domestic and international issuer types and debt and equity products, including registered and 144A/Reg S bond offerings, IPOs and follow-on equity offerings and private placements
  • Amending and/or reviewing and advising on pre-transaction and transaction documents from initial pitch phase through closing
  • Working with colleagues in the Legal Department and Compliance in the U.S. and overseas to coordinate advice regarding transactions and related matters
  • Assisting with policy and guideline formulation and delivering related training on topical issues to the Legal Department and business units
  • Create, maintain, and update legal form templates for M&A and capital markets matters


How You'll Lead
  • Leading a team actively managing legal, regulatory and reputational risk issues and working with business units and legal billing group to manage outside legal counsel engagements and related costs and expenses


Skills You'll Need
  • Experience in M&A and/or Capital Markets (experience in both areas would be a plus but is not a requirement)
  • An active State Bar membership and extensive relevant experience at a major law firm and/or global investment bank
  • Extensive experience representing broker-dealers on financial advisory and/or capital markets transactions. Federal securities law expertise, including familiarity with Securities and Exchange Commission regulations relevant to capital markets transactions


Skills That Will Help You Excel
  • Qualified lawyer with managerial experience
  • Strong analytical, organizational, multi-tasking and prioritizing skills
  • Capacity to assume responsibility for your own workload from an early stage
  • Ability to appropriately weigh legal risk, reputational and commercial issues in solving sophisticated legal problems
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills


Expectations

It is the Bank's expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank's hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York City is $170,000 to $320,000.Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of renumeration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That's why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authentically and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click hereto learn more!

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. Click these links to view the following notices: "EEOC Know Your Rights"; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; Employee Polygraph Protection Act and Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.

New York, NY

Deutsche Bank
Our vision

We aspire to be the leading client-centric global universal bank

We serve shareholders best by putting our clients first and by building a global network of balanced businesses underpinned by strong capital and liquidity.

We value our German roots and remain dedicated to our global presence.

We commit to a culture that aligns risks and rewards, attracts and develops talented individuals, fosters teamwork and partnership and is sensitive to the society in which we operate.

Our values and beliefs

Integrity

  • We live by the highest standards of integrity in everything we say and do
  • We will do what is right – not just what is allowed
  • We communicate openly; we invite, provide and respect challenging views

Sustainable Performance

  • We drive value for shareholders by putting long-term success over short-term gain
  • We encourage entrepreneurial spirit which responsibly balances risk and returns
  • We pursue lasting performance by developing, nurturing and investing in the best talent and by managing based on merit

Client Centricity

  • We earn our clients’ trust by placing them at the core of our organization
  • We deliver true value by understanding and serving our clients’ needs best
  • We strive to pursue mutually beneficial client relationships in which the value created is shared fairly

Innovation

  • We foster innovation by valuing intellectual curiosity in our people
  • We enable our clients’ success by constantly seeking suitable solutions to their problems
  • We continuously improve our processes and platforms by embracing new and better ways of doing things

Discipline

  • We protect the firm’s resources by always thinking and acting like owners
  • We live by the rules and hold ourselves accountable to deliver on our promises – no excuses
  • We achieve operational excellence by striving to ‘get it right the first time’

Partnership

  • We build diverse teams to generate better ideas and reach more balanced decisions
  • We put the common goals of the firm before ‘silo’ loyalty by trusting, respecting and working with each other
  • We act as responsible partners with all our stakeholders and regulators, and in serving the wider interests of society

Our brand

Deutsche is clear: we are here to perform – in business and beyond. We do this with a unique mix of passion and precision. This measured approach gives us the confidence to enable agile minds to look beyond the obvious, gaining advantage for everyone we work with.

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