Director, Assistant General Counsel – Marketing Platform
Capital One
Managing Director, Deputy General Counsel
BNY
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $300,000 - $400,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Serve as the firm’s senior legal advisor on prudential banking regulation and supervisory engagement
- Interpret new and amended rules and translate requirements into enterprise-wide policies, playbooks, and training materials
- Advise on preparation and execution of on-site and off-site supervisory examinations, targeted reviews, and thematic inquiries
- Coordinate cross-functional examination teams, issue-tracking processes, and engage directly with examiners
- Advise on remediation of regulatory findings to achieve timely closure and sustained compliance
- Provide legal counsel on complex transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, and large financings from due diligence through post-closing integration
- Lead and manage team responsible for all types of M&A activity and strategic transactions, including NDAs, structuring, term sheets, contract drafting and negotiation
- Advise on internal restructurings, reorganizations, and entity structure oversight
- Lead and manage team responsible for office leases, property management and construction contracts and purchase and sale agreements
- Provide counsel for global real estate operations and embed sustainability clauses with ESG and Real Estate Operations
- Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of bank regulatory, supervisory, M&A and real-estate attorneys
- Allocate resources across competing priorities and manage outside counsel relationships
- Champion adoption of AI-driven legal technologies and data-analytics tools to increase efficiency and insight
Requirements
- 15+ years’ legal experience with deep expertise in bank regulatory and supervision
- Demonstrated track record leading multi-jurisdictional regulatory exams, thematic reviews and supervisory engagements (e.g., Fed, OCC, FDIC, SEC, PRA, ECB, MAS, HKMA)
- Skilled at managing legal matters across multiple practice areas including M&A and real estate
- Experience interpreting and implementing complex rulemakings
- In-house attorney experience preferred; prior law-firm background in bank-regulatory, securities or real-estate matters is a plus
- Proven people leader with experience mentoring and deploying generalist and SME attorneys
- Exceptional analytical, negotiation and oral/written communication skills
- Strong business acumen and strategic mindset
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school; admitted to the New York (or other relevant) Bar
- Experience managing outside counsel and cross-functional legal workflows
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages
- Company-sponsored benefit programs
- Wellbeing programs focused on health and resilience
- Flexible global resources and tools for employees
- Generous paid leaves
- Paid volunteer time
- Pay-for-performance philosophy
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
bank regulatorysupervisory engagementM&Acontract draftingnegotiationrulemaking interpretationregulatory examsthematic reviewslegal counseldue diligence
Soft skills
people leadershipmentoringanalytical skillsnegotiation skillsoral communicationwritten communicationstrategic mindsetresource allocationteam managementcross-functional collaboration
Certifications
Juris DoctorNew York Bar admission
