Associate / Senior Associate - Restructuring

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Job summary

Hill Dickinson in London is seeking an Associate or Senior Associate to join the Restructuring team. The role covers transactional, advisory and contentious work on restructuring, insolvency, and related disputes for lenders, corporates and funders.

You will advise on debt restructurings, due diligence, cross-border matters, and assist with administrations, liquidations and prepacks, while supporting cross-functional teams and maintaining client relationships.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent.
• Demonstrable experience in supporting a Restructuring team.
• Strong legal research ability.
• Experience developing client relationships.
• Excellent organisational skills and case timetable management.
• Proficient in use of legal document management systems.

Responsibilities

• Advising with respect to debt restructurings and lender negotiations; distressed and opportunistic investments including special situations and debt sales.
• Assisting in due diligence and analysis of capital structures, security packages and creditor positions and supporting cross-border transactions.
• Assisting in connection with formal insolvency processes including prepack insolvency transactions, administrations, liquidations and receiverships.
• Assisting with distressed property assignments including security reviews, appointment of receivers and administrators, validity of appointment advice and sales on behalf of office holders and lenders under power of sale.
• Advising lenders on validity of security, enforcement strategies, facilitating appointment of office holders.
• Assisting on board support assignments providing advice and assistance to corporate entities in the 'twilight zone' of solvency.

Skills

Restructuring experience

Legal research

Client relationships

Organisational skills

Document management systems

Job description

Associate / Senior Associate - Restructuring

London

Restructuring

Full time

Permanent

Job role:

Associate / Senior Associate

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)

At Hill Dickinson, flexibility is an established part of our culture. Our commitment to supporting colleagues to balance their work and home lives has previously been awarded. We are happy to consider flexible working opportunities and welcome conversations about individual requirements throughout the recruitment process.

Team: Restructuring

Location: London

Role overview

Introduction to the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team who provide a full service to insolvency practitioners, banks and other funders, corporates entities and investors. The work of the team broadly falls into three categories, transactional, advisory and contentious.

Transactional work can involve acting on behalf of or across from an insolvency practitioner or purchaser on the sale and purchase of a business and/or assets (including debt sales); financial and corporate restructuring transactions including standstills, schemes of arrangement and special situations; and distressed real estate assignments.

Contentious work is mainly carried out for insolvency office holders and includes a wide variety of Court work that arises during an insolvency including antecedent transactions, wrongful trading, administration extensions, paragraph 71 applications. We also act for defendants in CDDA applications.

Contentious work is carried out for lenders and corporates and includes validation applications, enforcement of security and possession proceedings.

Advisory work includes board support, contingency planning, options advice, debt advisory work and strategic investment due diligence.

In this role, you will be advising businesses or individuals facing difficulties, as well as lenders, directors, special situations investors, private credit funds and insolvency practitioners seeking to find resolutions outside and inside of insolvency procedures.

Key responsibilities:

• Advising with respect to debt restructurings and lender negotiations; distressed and opportunistic investments including special situations and debt sales.
• Assisting in due diligence and analysis of capital structures, security packages and creditor positions and supporting cross-border transactions.
• Assisting in connection with formal insolvency processes including prepack insolvency transactions, administrations, liquidations and receiverships.
• Assisting with distressed property assignments including security reviews, appointment of receivers and administrators, validity of appointment advice and sales on behalf of office holders and lenders under power of sale.
• Advising lenders on validity of security, enforcement strategies, facilitating appointment of office holders.
• Assisting on board support assignments providing advice and assistance to corporate entities in the 'twilight zone' of solvency.
• Having a good working knowledge of and ability to advise comprehensively on insolvency litigation practice and procedures in both corporate and personal insolvency claims context.
• Being able to identify litigation funding options available to clients and advise on their ability to secure litigation funding and/or insurance options as appropriate.
• Being able to effectively and pro-actively manage own matters
• Briefing Counsel and/or third-party experts as required on specific matter assignments.

What are we looking for:

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience in supporting a Restructuring team
• Ability to carry out effective legal research under own initiative as required
• Experience in developing client relationships
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise ensuring effective case timetable management
• Proficient in use of legal document management systems

If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at [e-mail] should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Dependent on experience

Hours

Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)