Job ID:R0399624
Full/Part-Time: Full-time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Listed: 2025-09-08
Location: Tokyo
Details of the Division and Team:
Deutsche Bank (the “Bank” or “DB”)’s Legal function provides legal advice and services to the Bank with the goals of managing the Bank’s legal risks to ensure that transactions are viable and safe and protecting the integrity and reputation of the Bank. We promote and foster lawful and responsible business through a true partnership with the Bank’s business divisions. DB is a multi-service financial institution. It supplies many different products and services to a large variety of customers and counterparties around the world. In such a complex business environment, Legal works closely with business, management and other areas in the Bank. In Japan, Tokyo Legal has been operating as small but stable team for many years, but with departure of senior lawyer, we are seeking to hire a motivated and capable lawyer to fill the open position.
This role will be responsible for providing legal support to the Bank’s businesses in Japan, with primary coverage focus on (a) Global Financing and Credit Trading business (“GFCT Business”) in the Bank’s Investment Bank division and (b) financing and lending business of the Bank’s Corporate Bank division (“CB Lending Business”). Overview of the two businesses are:
This business covers many forms of financing, lending, arrangement, trading and investment including, inter alia, credit products, commercial real estate, asset-backed finance and distressed products.
Corporate Bank division provides global transaction and commercial banking services to corporate clients, and CB Lending Business in Japan offers primarily trade finance facilities (e.g., short term loans, bank guarantees, letters of credit), syndicated corporate loans and ECA-backed export and/or project financing.
This role will be asked to assist across a number of these business lines. This role will involve the legal and regulatory risk management of new and existing transactions.
What we will offer you:
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.
You can expect:
Your key responsibilities:
This role also entails providing legal services to other businesses or infrastructure functions or advising on corporate or organizational matters, including supporting other lawyers, as required.
Your skills and experience:
How we’ll support you:
About us and our teams:
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