Associate - Banking

Overview

Here at Mills & Reeve, we are hiring a Banking Solicitor to join our national banking & finance team, based in either Cambridge or Norwich.

Due to significant and continued growth of our dedicated banking & finance teams in East Anglia, we need an ambitious banking & finance associate to help build this practice.

You will ideally have between 0 and 4 years' PQE with experience gained in a firm renowned for banking and finance work. Your experience will be substantially or wholly gained working in the banking and finance sector, and you will be ambitious to progress.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• A self-starting attitude, common-sense and initiative
• Strong attention to detail
• The ability to build good working relationships with existing and potential clients
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team

• Advising banks, alternative lenders, funds and other corporate and institutional clients (both borrowers and lenders) on a range of national and international financing transactions. You will be given the opportunity to work on corporate banking, real estate investment and development finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, asset-based lending, government finance and debt capital markets transactions. You will frequently be working with the LMA's suite of financing documents.
• Advising universities and other not-for-profit institutions on a range of financing transactions. Our work in the higher education sector is a particular focus for the team and one for which we are widely recognised.
• Supporting the corporate and real estate teams on the financing aspects of private equity deals, mergers and acquisitions, property development and investment financings and more.
• Being actively involved and participating in business development – both independently and with the wider team – with new and existing clients and taking responsibility for developing and sustaining relationships directly with clients. There are great networks for young professionals in both Cambridge and Norwich that you will be encouraged to get involved with.

You will be based in either our Cambridge or Norwich office but will work with members of our national banking team. The cross-office banking team is part of the wider Corporate and Commercial National Service Line, currently headed by William Roles.

We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.