Senior Legal Counsel, Morningstar Credit Analytics
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The Group: Morningstar Credit Analytics LSLC ("MCA") provides data, insights and analytic solutions to help credit market decision-makers understand risks and opportunities across various credit sectors, including structured finance, financial institutions, and corporate entities. MCA offers tools and information to facilitate faster, more insightful and predictable outcomes in credit analysis to meet the evolving needs of securitization, commercial real estate, private credit and leveraged loan market participants. MCA provides solutions across CMBS and CRE CLO portfolios and also offers bank analytics and corporate analytics tools. MCA recently acquired DealX, a provider of clean, standardized U.S. CMBS and global CLO data including both assets and liabilities.The integration of DealX will bolster MCA's position as a top CMBS analytics provider. The Role: MCA is a dynamic organization that operates primarily in the United States, but is seeking to expand its global reach. With the acquisition of DealX, MCA seeks to continue to expand on the delivery of data, tools and insights for the markets they serve. We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel ("SLC") who will be based in either Chicago or New York. The SLC will report to the Americas Head of Commercial, Legal - who reports to the Morningstar Global Head of Commercial, Legal - both of whom are based in Chicago. The SLC will work closely with MCA's business leaders and will be responsible for the leadership, development and management of legal affairs for commercial activity across all jurisdictions in which MCA carries on business. As a critical member of the MCA team, the SLC will be expected to operate at a strategic level in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, to advise MCA's business leaders, and assist in making informed and balanced decisions to help shape and move the business forward. This role requires the SLC to think strategically about the growth of the MCA business internationally but also requires the SLC to efficiently manage a number of different commercial matters simultaneously with an emphasis on getting the work done. Responsibilities: Given the amount and variety of activity, coupled with the evolving culture of MCA as a result of continuous growth, the SLC will need to be very hands-on and have the ability to deal with a broad range of legal matters. While not an exhaustive list, here are some examples of day-to-day activities the SLC will be involved in:
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