Overview
Provide legal and policy advice to support private-sector investment operations, including structuring, negotiating, and implementing investments, and ensuring compliance with the Bank’s policies and legal framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise on the structuring and execution of private-sector investment transactions, including selection and oversight of external legal counsel, negotiation of legal documentation, coordination of signings and closings, and support with legal aspects of post-investment monitoring.
- Collaborate with other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development partners to support cofinancing arrangements and promote alignment in legal approaches for private-sector operations.
- Work closely with investment-operations teams to help identify legal and regulatory risks and contribute to the delivery of integrated legal support across the transaction lifecycle.
- Contribute to the legal review of AIIB’s investments to ensure alignment with environmental, social, and other institutional policy requirements.
- Assist in the development and updating of legal document templates to ensure adherence to best practices and applicable law and to define and reflect relevant AIIB standards and policies.
- Conduct legal research, draft and present on legal issues, and draft and negotiate legal texts.
- Identify opportunities to streamline legal processes, with an eye toward efficiency and simplification of processes, while working within AIIB’s Internal Legal Framework.
- Demonstrate sound judgment in legal analysis and be accountable for assigned work, while supporting knowledge initiatives and contributing to the interpretation and application of internal policies and procedures.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5-8 years of relevant post-qualification practice experience, at least part of which was spent preferably at a top-tier international law firm.
- Experience working collaboratively in a cross-cultural environment.
Qualifications
- A law degree (JD, LLM, or equivalent) from a leading university and qualified to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
- Candidates from civil law jurisdictions would ideally have a postgraduate law degree from an institution in a common law jurisdiction.
