Attorney-Adviser (Senior Attorney), CG-0905-14 - Washington, United States - Non-Departmental Agency

Description

Summary

This position is located in the Legal Division, Resolution and Receivership Branch, Resolution and Receivership Policy Section, Assets Management & Disposition Unit (AMDU). AMDU provides legal advice and support to other FDIC Divisions on a wide variety of resolution, receivership, transactional, and policy matters. Many of these issues are complex, involve multiple disciplines and may involve more than two parties.

Duties

• Confers with, and acts in an advisory capacity to the Section Chief, Senior Counsel, Associate/Assistant General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, the General Counsel, DRR, CISR, the Division of Finance (DOF), other divisions and offices, as assigned, and members of the Board of Directors on legal questions relating to matters involving the planning, effecting, and administration of the resolution of failed Insured Depository Institutions (IDI)s, and the FDIC's roles or potential role as receiver, conservator, liquidator, or corporate liquidator of a failed IDI.
• Responsible for providing legal advice and guidance on matters relating to commercial and financial products or transactions as they arise in the exercise of FDIC's resolution and receivership responsibilities.
• Serves as a subject matter expert and resource within the FDIC Legal Division in one or more of the following subject matters or practice areas (or such other areas in which attorneys in the Section may need to be proficient): (i) securities law; (ii) law governing the formation, governance and dissolution of corporations, partnerships, trusts and limited liability companies (including subsidiary entities, joint ventures, and securitizations); (iii) real estate law and law relating to the acquisition, finance and sale of real property; (iv) banking law and regulations, and the resolution of failed or failing IDIs (and FDIC policies and procedures in that regard); (v) commercial and secured lending law; (vi) general contract law; or (vii) Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae mortgage origination and servicing requirements.
• Provides legal and policy advice concerning matters associated with failed bank operations, as well as operations of a bridge institution or an institution in conservatorship.
• Collaborates with other attorneys in the Legal Division in connection with, and analyzing, structuring, drafting and negotiating documentation for, complex corporate transactions.