Associate - Banking & Finance

We are recruiting for an Associate to join our Banking team in London. We're ambitious and continuing to expand, with expertise across each of our UK offices. We provide expert and commercial advice in all areas of general corporate lending (including acquisition finance), real estate finance and renewables finance. We have the capacity to deal with all instructions, from the largest cross border syndicated transactions through to lower level strategically important bilateral lending.

The focus of our banking team is acting lender side on transactions including acting for all of the UK clearing banks, the so-called challenger banks and investment funds. The team also advises many of the firm’s corporate and real estate clients who are undertaking transactions in the debt markets.

The team is supported by highly regarded experts in restructuring and insolvency, property, employment and licensing, all with significant experience and understanding of the way in which lending institutions operate. We pride ourselves on understanding the needs of our clients, listening to them and then providing clear, straightforward commercially pragmatic advice that offers a real solution.

You will manage your own caseloads ensuring your experience is varied and broad. Through our national service lines you will work with notable clients and become a sector specialist. You will receive bespoke training throughout your career ensuring you have the technical and commercial skills to build an effective and successful practice.

Once you are in the role of you will deliver the following:

• Manage your own transactions for a variety of clients
• Support with larger transactions using project and time management techniques to ensure effective management of resource and achievement of results
• Demonstrate an understanding of the client’s business and ability to secure new work within existing client relationships
• Participate in business development opportunities, build and help to strengthen relationships with our clients
• Provide an excellent service to our clients by working closely with colleagues from across the UK in both the Banking team and other specialisms

• To be considered for this role, you will be an NQ-3
  
  PQE Solicitor, with experience in a banking/finance team. This experience can come from previous Paralegal experience, a seat on your training contract, or as post qualified experience
• A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self‑motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
• Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development, and an appetite for keeping up‑to‑date with the latest developments in your practice area and sector focus
• Understand your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
• Ambitious and enthusiastic team player, able to support senior fee earners and contribute to our collaborative culture

Operating from offices across the UK, our expanding and ambitious partner‑led team provide tactical, commercially minded services across all aspects of financing. We act for a broad range of debt funders and have positions on the general lending panels of nearly all the high street lenders. In addition, we act for a wide spectrum of corporate borrowers in all of our key sectors in the investment and non investment grade spaces.
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