Senior Legal Counsel (Lending Lawyer) - Financial Institution

Full Job Description

Are you a private practice trained 4-8 PQE finance lawyer?

Do you have experience working with lending matters across either fund finance, leverage finance, or restructuring finance?

If so, keep on reading

Title : Senior Legal Counsel

Location : London

Salary or Rate : Competitive six-figure base salary

Benefits include : Bonus, Hybrid working, and other fantastic benefits

The Client – a global financial institution that is looking for a dynamic lawyer for their EMEA legal team within the lending practice. They cover a broad spectrum of work and have lawyers that come from fund finance, restructuring finance and leverage finance backgrounds.

The Role

• Assisting (in accordance with policies, procedures, regulatory requirements and based on internal guidance and standard operating procedures) in the documentation, negotiation, and execution of lending and loan trading transactions
• Working on group projects and initiatives
• Identifying and advising on related legal issues

You

• 4-8 PQE (E&W Qualified)
• Private Practice trained at an international law firm
• In-house experience within financial services is a bonus (not essential)
• Experience in the following from a lending perspective: leverage finance, fund finance, or restructuring finance.
• Strong technical knowledge of LMA loan documentation, including confidentiality agreements, term sheets, mandate letters, inter-creditor agreements, guarantees, and security documents, as well as LMA secondary loan documentation.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Strong working understanding of regulatory matters affecting lending, including Brexit and Libor cessation.

Interested? Apply right now – your future career depends on what you do today!

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