Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel in the Corporate Banking and Structured Lending Legal team, where you’ll deliver the legal strategy and provide expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice
- Your role will sit within our Commercial and Institutional business area, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
- You’ll be recognised as an expert in your field, and be exposed to stakeholders across the bank and externally
- You'll spend a minimum of one day per week from our office location, but you'll need to offer flexibility depending on business needs
What you'll do
We’re looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting our Commercial and Institutional business. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives, either directly or through a team.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Making sure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered within relevant timescales, and manages and minimises legal risks
- Delivering continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
- Providing the communication of internal and external legal advice and helping to deliver transactions and projects to stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
- Managing legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions and other cost tools and driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls
The skills you'll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be an English qualified lawyer with experience of providing legal and commercial advice in relation to lending transactions and projects in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We’ll expect you to have in depth knowledge of general banking law and practice, and the financial services industry, coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank. You'll need in depth knowledge of Loan Market Association (LMA) lending transactions and market as well as banking law and practice, preferably with expertise in relation to infrastructure and project finance
You’ll also need:
- Knowledge of the commercial and private banking business activities, the commercial environment within which it operates and associated legal issues
- Experience of working with leading law firms and other professional advisers and consultants
- The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
13/06/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- English-qualified lawyer
- Experience providing legal and commercial advice on lending transactions and projects (in-house or at a leading UK law firm)
- In-depth knowledge of general banking law, banking practice and the financial services industry
- In-depth knowledge of Loan Market Association (LMA) lending transactions and market
- Expertise in infrastructure and project finance
- Knowledge of commercial and private banking business activities and associated legal issues
- Experience working with leading law firms and other professional advisers and consultants
- Ability to communicate legal advice clearly to non-lawyers and manage legal risk within timescales
- Experience managing legal costs using e-billing, auctions and other cost tools
- Experience identifying and delivering operational improvements and efficiencies in legal processes
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
