MSIM- Emerging Markets Debt- Transaction Counsel

Job description

The Transaction Counsel will sit directly on the Emerging Markets Debt investment team and provide dedicated legal and structuring support across sovereign and corporate credit investments in emerging and frontier markets. The role is designed to enhance investment decision-making and execution by delivering practical analysis of documentation and legal rights, partnering with portfolio managers, analysts, traders, and operations on transaction structuring and renegotiation of existing debt. The Transaction Counsel will work closely with other EMD investment decision makers, internal partners (including the broader MS legal, compliance, and risk functions) and external counsel while maintaining an investment-oriented mandate. Qualifications: - Provide investment-relevant analysis of sovereign bond documentation (e.g., indentures/fiscal agency agreements) to assess legal rights, remedies, and key terms (CACs/aggregation, pari passu, negative pledge, events of default, acceleration, waivers, governing law, jurisdiction, immunities, ranking, and enforcement mechanics). - Act as the investment team’s point person for managing external counsel on sovereign and corporate matters, includi...