Blackstone Credit & Insurance – Assistant Vice President, Legal & Compliance na Blackstone

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Business Group: Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”)
 

Business Group Overview:

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”) is one of the world’s leading credit investors. Our investments span the credit markets, including private investment grade, asset based lending, public investment grade and high yield, sustainable resources, infrastructure debt, collateralized loan obligations, direct lending and opportunistic credit. We seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional and individual investors by offering companies capital needed to strengthen and grow their businesses. BXCI is also a leading provider of investment management services for insurers, helping those companies better deliver for policyholders through our world-class capabilities in investment grade private credit. 

Job Title: Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”) – Assistant Vice President, Legal & Compliance

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist investment and business groups in structuring, negotiating, and facilitating new investments and related investment management considerations.
• Manage legal aspects of new bespoke product launches, including structuring, drafting, and negotiation of investment management documents and review and drafting of disclosures, and coordination with investment, marketing, operations, fund accounting, and tax teams.
• Coordinate with Blackstone funds formation team on new flagship fund launches.
• Work with capital formation team on asset backed financing and liquidity facilities for Blackstone Credit & Insurance funds.
• Work on corporate projects related to the firm, including private and public transactions, operational matters, investor relations issues, and new business initiatives.
• Assist in a variety of day-to-day matters faced by in-house legal group related to large, dynamic global business, including review and negotiation of confidentiality agreements, vendor agreements, and miscellaneous contracts.
• Assist in the review of marketing materials, investor communications, and responses to investor inquiries.
• Assist in ongoing legal aspects of operating existing investment funds, including review of contractual provisions, preparing amendments, and updating and revising of investment vehicles’ offering materials.
• Coordinate with compliance team on transaction and investment funds-related compliance matters, including Adviser’s Act issues, trade clearance, regulatory filings and designing and testing of compliance systems.
• Assist in the updating and maintenance of the firm’s policies and procedures, corporate governance documents and files, and research/regulatory library and filings.
• Support various business groups, including investment, marketing, accounting, operations, and middle office departments.
• Manage external deal counsel, in conjunction with the investment team, and work closely with portfolio managers, colleagues in legal and compliance departments, tax, and ops teams during execution of the transaction.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Juris Doctor degree (or foreign equivalent) in Law or a related field required.

Certificate:

• Certificate of Good Standing to Practice Law in the State of New York

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in job offered or related occupations required.
• 3+ years of experience in broad real estate law, including real estate finance and operations.
• 3+ years of experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing, property management agreements, financing, and ancillary real estate documents such as amendments, NDAs, SNDAs, etc.
• 3+ years of experience using Microsoft Office products such as, (i) Word to produce high-quality documents, (ii) PowerPoint to develop internal and external presentation materials, and (iii) Excel to build and capture all-important legal and real estate portfolio company needs and considerations.
• 3+ years of experience conducting research to develop solutions regarding high-level theories, ideas and topics.
• 3+ years of experience navigating diverse set of stakeholders to balance competing priorities and meet business objectives.
• 3+ years of experience utilizing strong finance and business skills.
• 3+ years of experience demonstrating excellent organization and verbal and written communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience managing ad-hoc projects independently and to completion.
• Experience can be concurrent.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at [email protected].

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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