Founding Lawyer - Banking & Finance

Lina Law (HX26); Paris; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Lina Law (HX26) is seeking a founding partner to lead its Banking & Finance practice in Paris. You will own the financing workstream on complex deals, including LBOs, acquisition finance, and private credit, and shape how AI augments the team while you sign off on critical matters.

You will draft and negotiate facility agreements, intercreditor arrangements, and security documents across senior, mezzanine, and unitranche structures, ensuring efficient closings and risk control.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in banking & finance with deal experience.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with senior authority.
• Experience shaping practice and leveraging AI-enabled workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the financing workstream on complex deals from LBOs to growth facilities.
• Draft, review and negotiate facility and security documents.
• Orchestrate closing logistics and due diligence processes.
• Provide senior sign-off on financing structures and risk.
• Help shape the firm’s direction as a founding partner.

Skills

Financing deals

Drafting

Negotiation

Senior authority

Job description

We are building the premier AI-native law firm. We've just closed our pre-seed round, backed by a prestigious VC. Powered by our technology, we combine elite legal talent with AI agents to deliver faster, more precise, and more reliable legal services.

The role: Founding Lawyer - Banking & Finance

You're the founding partner who builds and owns our banking and finance practice. You run the financing side of complex deals end to end, from LBO and acquisition finance to private credit and unitranche, refinancings, restructurings and security packages, bringing the senior judgment that lets a deal go out the door with your name on it. As a founding partner, you shape how the practice runs, how the firm grows, and how AI does the heavy lifting while you do the signing-off.

What you'll do

• Own the financing workstream on complex transactions - LBOs and private equity deals, acquisition finance, venture debt and growth facilities, refinancings and restructurings - as the signing-off partner, on both borrower/sponsor and lender side.


• Draft, review and negotiate facility agreements, term sheets, intercreditor and subordination arrangements, guarantees and security documents, and the finance provisions of transaction documentation, across senior, second-lien, mezzanine, unitranche and high-yield structures.


• Handle the execution mechanics that make a closing work: corporate benefit and financial assistance analysis, conditions precedent, funds flow, perfection of security and closing logistics.


• Provide senior-level sign-off on financing structures and risk, building on AI-generated drafts and analyses.


• Turn every matter into reusable platform assets: encoded playbooks, model documents, negotiation positions and review checklists that compound the firm's edge.


• Help shape the firm's direction, culture, and growth as a founding member of the partnership.

Qualifications and requirements

• Qualified to practice as a lawyer.


• Minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience in banking and finance - leveraged and acquisition finance, private credit, syndicated lending - with hands-on deal experience.


• Strong drafting reflexes, a bias to action, and the standing to serve as the senior signing authority.