Managing Counsel, Collateral & Investments

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

The Managing Counsel will:

• Work independently to provide experienced legal advice specializing in collateral management and private investment transactions
  , including advising on structuring collateral arrangements and reviewing, drafting and negotiating private investment transactions, investment management agreements, secured transaction documents, and collateral agreements.

• Provide an experienced level of timely, high-quality legal advice and assistance to other RGA attorneys and business clients with an emphasis on investment operations and collateral structures.

• Demonstrate a commitment to being a trusted strategic partner to reinsurance counsel, investment teams, business units, and senior management with a responsive, service-oriented attitude and strong work ethic.

• Collaborate and communicate with other members of the RGA reinsurance legal team and business clients, including reinsurance, investments and treasury teams, to perform highly complex assignments and projects.

• Provide seasoned, deeply experienced level of timely, high quality legal advice and support in the structuring of collateral arrangements; review, negotiate and document secured transactions, including trust agreements, collateral documents, security agreements, and UCC filings and related documentation; and providing pro-active guidance on contractual and regulatory compliance.

• Negotiate, review and prepare documentation for fund investments and a variety of other alternative asset investments, including to ensure compliance with applicable collateral requirements and to navigate complex partnership tax implications and securities law and ERISA compliance matters; provide legal support to investment teams in alternative asset structuring and risk assessment; assist on due diligence reviews; and advise on legal and regulatory matters affecting collateral management and investment activities.

• Review, draft, and negotiate complex investment management and other related agreements, together with ensuring compliance with all applicable insurance and securities laws; provide other strategic legal counsel to investments team on related matters.

• Provide advice and assistance to the reinsurance legal and business teams as needed in structuring, negotiating and documenting complex reinsurance transactions.

• Serve clients and provide legal services and advice at a level commensurate to a partner in a law firm.

• Collaborate on other projects as assigned.

• Law degree from a United States accredited law school

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Business, finance or accounting degree or equivalent experience: working knowledge of concepts, terminology and practices

• 10+ Years experience as an attorney in a law firm or in a corporate legal function

• Expert-level experience with complex transactions involving fund formation or other alternative assets is a preferred asset

• Deep experience, expertise and knowledge of legal and contract terminology and methods, and business and financial knowledge

• Highly experienced ability and expertise to identify and interpret business and contract issues

• Experienced and demonstrated ability to interact and work collaboratively and constructively with people at various levels within and outside the organization

• Experience in a global business enterprise with re/insurance, investment management or other financial services operations is a preferred asset

• Deep and broad expertise in legal profession, with significant specialized knowledge of U.S. laws and regulations

• Highly experienced client counseling skills in translating business needs and problems into viable and accepted solutions

• Highly experienced client service and…