Associate – Banking and Finance (Mid / Senior)

Consortium; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Discretionary bonus schemes

Career development programs

Job summary

Bird & Bird is recruiting an Associate for its London Finance & Financial Regulation team. The role focuses on banking and finance transactions, with emphasis on renewable energy and sports finance, offering significant responsibility and client contact in a small, entrepreneurial team.

We seek a 5+ years PQE banking lawyer capable of delivering practical, precise advice to financial institutions and borrowers, with a genuine interest in international work, business development and professional

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience in banking/finance.
• Experience handling complex finance transactions within a leading firm.
• Experience in an international, cross-border environment is important.

Responsibilities

• Advise financial institutions and borrowers on a wide range of lending work.
• Handle bilateral bank lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance and project finance.
• Work on cross-border financings, emerging markets lending and venture debt.

Skills

Banking & Finance expertise

Renewable energy finance

Sports finance transactions

Client contact

Education

Qualified solicitor with PQE 5+ years

Job description

Associate – Banking and Finance (Mid / Senior)

Location: London, UK

Highlighted points for this job

Associate role in London's Finance & Financial Regulation team

Specialises in renewable energy and sports finance transactions

Competitive market-led salary and discretionary bonus schemes

Offers flexible working and career development opportunities

Emphasis on continuous improvement and team collaboration

We are looking for an Associate, with 5-years' or more of post qualification experience, to join our Finance & Financial Regulation team in London to work on a wide range of finance transactions, including renewable energy financing and sports finance. Working as part of a small team will mean significant amounts of responsibility and client contact. We believe the role represents an outstanding opportunity for a bright, entrepreneurial and ambitious lawyer.

Key Responsibilities

Your work will include advising financial institutions (banks, development banks, funds and alternative lenders) and borrowers on a wide range of lending work, including bilateral bank lending work, sports finance (mainly football transfer receivables and media rights receivables), acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance (with an emphasis on renewable energy projects), cross border financings, bank lending work in emerging markets (Africa, Asia and CEE/SEE), venture debt and asset finance.

What you'll bring

We are looking for a banking lawyer who is technically excellent and with the ability to apply their legal skills in a practical way. Candidates should have solid post qualification experience gained in the banking/finance practice of a leading Firm.

The successful candidate will have:

• Excellent academic achievement.
• Experience of handling transactions gained within a comparable environment and at an appropriate level.
• A desire to work for a truly international Firm.

In addition, we expect our associates to demonstrate:

• Flexibility, supporting a broad range of debt transactions.
• The ability to manage aspects of complex matters/transactions and clients.
• Knowledge of key areas of the law to provide clear, precise, practical advice.
• The ability to liaise effectively with lawyers from within the Group and also to liaise and co-ordinate with lawyers from other disciplines and jurisdictions as required.
• Delegation and supervisory skills where appropriate.
• Interest in working in a challenging, team-based environment.
• The willingness and ability to support business development activity, creating and maintaining strong client relationships and identifying new business opportunities.
• A commitment to update their own technical expertise and to achieve continuous improvement and development.
• The ability to contribute to the Group (either by training, precedents or know-how generally).

What's in it for you

• Our agile approach to office and remote working enables you to find the right balance to deliver at your best. Supporting you, our business and our clients in a flexible way.
• Progress your career and personal development with our award-winning development programmes, from our global mentoring scheme to our bespoke coaching opportunities.
• Equip yourself with a board range of technical and business skills as well as a deep understanding of business issues through our skills-based curriculum.
• Competitive, market-led salary and bonus structure
• Family friendly policies as well as health schemes and wellbeing support
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to tailor your benefits to your current needs and lifestyle.

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, Bird & Bird operates two discretionary bonus schemes.

We offer a performance related bonus that reflects the contributions you make to the firm. We know an inclusive culture, alongside a diverse workforce, makes us more innovative and agile, so whilst some of the criteria for being awarded a bonus is based on chargeable hours, we also include an allowance for hours spent contributing to Diversity & Inclusion, ESG, and Pro Bono work.

We see 'winning work' as significantly different to the day-to-day business development activities you carry out as part of your role as an Associate, so in addition to the Performance Bonus, Bird & Bird are keen to reward Associates for winning work. Winning Work Bonuses are paid in addition to the Performance Bonus and are intended to be a thank you for your contribution to introducing a client or generating additional work from an existing client.

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Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

If you want to find out more, visit www.twobirds.com

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