Role Overview

We have an opportunity for someone to join us as a Legal Counsel to become core to our groups legal function to support deal structuring, negotiation, documentation, execution, post-closing supervision, day-to-day management and ensuring the ongoing compliance of the group’s syndicated and bilateral lending arrangements.

In addition, the Legal Counsel will assist the group and group legal team with all relevant legal activities on an ad hoc basis, including (but not limited to), contract terms and conditions, legal due diligence, policies, legal compliance, legal, corporate governance, entity formation and litigation.

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain a record of all major borrowing facilities and ensure ongoing compliance with, and protection of security arrangements, covenants and other such commitments through legal policy, governance and controls.
• Conduct legal due diligence on new, and amendments or extensions to, financing agreements.
• Advise relevant internal stakeholders on material legal matters.
• Manage third party legal service provider relationships, ensuring competitive, cost-effective service provision.
• Contribution to a high-performance, collaborative team culture within the group function, and company more generally, to deliver the processes, thoroughness and depth of checks and tests for effective consolidation accounting, and an inclusive environment for our people leading to confidence, growth, retention, and reputation.

Skills and Experience

• Qualified lawyer with solid and related post qualification experience as an in-house lawyer or lawyer in a leading law firm.
• Working knowledge of and experience in trade and commodity financing products including borrowing bases, secured and unsecured corporate lending, inventory financing, self-liquidating structures, receivables financing, contingent instruments, repurchase transactions and general banking experience.
• Experience with ISDA documentation advantageous.
• Experience with cross-border transactions.
• High level of initiative, integrity and commercial understanding.
• Adept at developing interpersonal relationships.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.