Associate - Lawyer

Job Description
Join our team as a Associate Lawyer and play a key role in supporting our brokerage and portfolio investment activities. You will have the opportunity to work on global initiatives, collaborate with diverse teams, and help navigate complex legal frameworks while advancing your career in a dynamic environment.
As a Associate Lawyer within our team, you will analyze, amend, and negotiate broker-dealer agreements, provide legal advice on regulatory aspects, and support new product and service initiatives. You will engage with business partners, control areas, and regulators, ensuring compliance and effective risk management. Your expertise will help us respond to regulatory requests and monitor new rules, contributing to the success of our brokerage and portfolio investment activities.
Job Responsibilities:
• Analyzing, amending and negotiating broker-dealer agreements that govern relationships with clients (intermediation, give-up, electronic trades, securities bonds loan, custody);
• Provide legal advice on the regulatory aspects of the brokerage/foreign portfolio investments activities, discussing the matters with the business, control areas and also with the regulators;
• Get involved in the firm's global initiatives that impact direct or indirectly the local brokerage / portfolio investments activities;
• Discuss, propose and draft responses to regulators requests and monitoring routines (BSM or B3's alerts);
• Provide legal advice to derivatives, drafting derivative master agreements (CGDs), helping with the structuring of the transactions and negotiating with external clients;
• Supporting the business on the new products/services initiatives, helping the firm to navigate through the Brazilian complex legal framework along with the JPM policies requirements;
• Monitor, follow up and comment new rules initiatives arising from regulators.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities:
• Licensed attorney (OAB) in Brazil, with preferred minimum of 2 years post-qualification legal experience;
• Required expertise/knowledge on financial markets;
• Ability to work in a high-intensity environment;
• Proactive and team oriented with excellent interpersonal and analytical skills;
• Well organized and able to execute responsibilities; ability to prioritize multiple tasks and bring tasks to completion within established timeframes;
• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written English; and
• Proficient in MS Office (Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint).
About Us
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.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.