Senior Corporate Counsel Payments/finance/commercial Transactions

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Senior Corporate Counsel – Payments/Finance/Commercial Transactions

The candidate will identify and analyze complex legal issues, to draft and negotiate a variety of agreements and to present appropriate recommendations to minimize the legal exposure of the Company in a variety of vendor and partner contracts. Manage a robust transactional practice with a primary focus on Payments/Finance/FinTech, as well as additional adjacent transactional practice areas. Draft, negotiate, and manage strategic agreements from RFP stage through contract execution and beyond. Provide advice and counsel regarding existing and emerging FinTech products and services. Accurately identify and assess contractual, business, and market risks and opportunities and advise business groups on related strategies. Monitor statutory, regulatory, and case law developments, assess the impact to payments-related products and services, and provide oral and written updates to impacted internal partners. Participate on cross-functional teams to help design financial products, identify creative solutions to unique use cases and escalated issues, and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, partner contracts, card brand rules, and other applicable laws. Oversee the work of outside counsel in connection with any outsourced payments-related legal work. Manage special projects or other department or Company initiatives. Juris Doctorate or equivalent and required certifications for practicing law is required. Should have 8-12 years of relevant experience. Experience providing advice and counsel related to gift/stored value card programs is a plus. Should have experience serving as a subject matter expert advising on the current legal and regulatory requirements relating to all payments matters generally, ideally as applied to a retailer, including support for consumer and commercial credit products and related operational credit practices, card and payment association network rules and operations, and trade credit and other lending programs.

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Job ID: 170632

Company info

The Home Depot, Inc.
2455 Paces Ferry Road N.W
Atlanta
Georgia
United States 30339
Phone : 770-384-2666
Fax : 770-384-2805
Website : http://www.homedepot.com