Associate, GLGM; SSTAR

Job Title Associate, GLGM (SSTAR)
Location London Description At  Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. Witha global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.

For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave

Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and discounted corporate health plans

Flexible work options

Overview of the team:

Ashurst Perkins Coie finance practice is recognised by its clients to be one of the most innovative and solution orientated legal practices in the city today.

As the challenges to our clients have increased over the last few years,we have stayed true to our core offering of legal technical excellence wrapped in commercial awareness. Thishas enabled Ashurst Perkins Coie to continue to fulfil the role ofbeing a trusted advisor to our clients and strengthened our close relationships.

Ashurst Perkins Coie's growing SSTAR practice forms part of a wider structured finance team, as well as specialist across the firm and in our international network.

We are sector agnostic, advising borrowers, issuers, sponsors, asset managers, and credit funds inrespect of asset-backed financing solutions for a wide variety ofasset classes, including:

Consumer credit (eg personal loans, credit cards, point of sale)
Autos (auto loans, lease receivables,hire purchase, PCP and residual values)
FintechSME lending

Mortgages (bridging, BTL, development,second charge, HELOC and equity release)
CREFund finance

The Opportunity:

We are looking for someone with excellent technical ability coupled with a growth mindset and ability to applylearnings across transactions.

You will work primarily with partners in London who specialise in various types of structured finance transactions across different asset classes. You can expect tolook at corporate lends, warehouses and private and publicsecuritisations, and various forms of mezzanine transactions.

You will be willing to be flexible andshould be enthusiastic about working on new structures with partner and team support. The job offers exposure to multiple different clients, sectors, and associated financing techniques,and is an excellent platform for an entrepreneurial, ambitious private credit lawyer. Our clients demand a broad understanding ofthe financing landscape and our team's ability to look at diverse and innovative financing structures is key to its strength.

In addition to strong technical skills, you should be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for business development and strong interpersonal skills as there will be significant client contact,in both the work and business development context.

The role will offer the opportunity towork with sponsors, debt investors, speciality finance corporates,banks and others.

You would typically act on all elements of a financing from structuring and term sheet stage, through toclosing and post-closing. Your primary areas of responsibility will be to draft and negotiate / responsibility for security documents, ancillary documents and depending on personal experience and transaction complexity, intercreditor arrangements and facilities agreements / debt instruments, ensuring a smooth process to transaction close. We would also expect you to contribute to the business development side of the business, whichcan take many different forms: know-how and market updates,entertainment, networks, and more.

The role will also involve working closely with other groups within Ashurst Perkins Coie , including corporate, restructuring, banking, financial regulatory and tax.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached tothe role on our careers site

About you:

Experience of advising on structured finance transactions and securitisations preferred.

Proactive, and willing to own clients,work streams and processes

Experience of drafting documents,gradually increasing in complexity

Good organisational skills and experience in transaction…