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Associate General Counsel – Commercial
Valley National BankMorristown, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Oct 2025
About the role
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Structure, draft, negotiate and review loan documentation for middle market transactions, including credit agreements, collateral agreements, intercreditor agreements, participation agreements, among others.
- Review of documentation for syndicated and participated facilities.
- Draft and review consents, waivers, reservations of rights, as well provide advice in connection with pre-workout or workout credits.
- Draft and review other documents such as confidentiality agreements, non-reliance letters, termination and release letters.
- Knowledge of laws, regulations, case law and market trends affecting the bank's commercial lending business.
- Work with representatives from various departments to address the legal requirements for policies and procedures.
- Identify and assess legal risk and provide legal advice and assistance in resolving or escalating matters related to commercial lending transactions.
- Manage outside counsel.
- Assist with developing and maintaining loan document forms.
- Provide internal clients with timely, effective, accurate, business-sensitive, professional, creative and comprehensive responses and other services to achieve business objectives.
Provide legal advice and guidance to senior management and department heads of the bank and its subsidiaries. - Establish and maintain working relationships across all levels of the organization to be a trusted advisor on legal matters.
- Conduct business dealings to the highest ethical standards and in compliance with legal requirements and policies.
- Knowledge of and experience with Article 9 of the UCC and lending regulatory issues.
- Substantial experience in secured transactions, including, but not limited to, borrowing base facilities, asset-based facilities and commercial real estate transactions. Experience in other specialty areas such as healthcare, fund finance and international lending preferred but not required.
- Experience in derivatives (ISDA documentation) and trade finance are a plus.
- Ability to draft complex loan documentation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to apply principles of legal, logical or scientific thinking to a wide variety of intellectual and practical problems.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret the complex documents.
- JD Degree and highly experienced licensed attorney with a minimum of 7 - 10 years of applicable experience.
- Experience with banking matters at a medium to large law firm with banking clients and/or an in-house legal department at a bank.
- Admission to practice in good standing in the state of New Jersey and/or the state of New York.
- Experience handling middle market and syndicated loan transactions.
- Familiarity with market trends and regulatory developments affecting commercial lending.
- Previous experience in a corporate legal department or government agency.
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