Banking & Finance Lawyer

Pinsent Masons; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinsent Masons seeks a junior Banking & Finance Lawyer for their Glasgow office. The ideal candidate will have 2-6 years PQE and experience in a commercial firm. They will tackle significant transactions, supported by a robust training programme and career development opportunities within a top tier practice.

Benefits

First-class training and career development programme

Exposure to high-profile transactions

Early responsibility and client interaction

Qualifications

• Experience in banking, corporate, real estate or projects.
• Ambitious junior lawyer with 2-6 years PQE.
• Good client-focused skills.

Responsibilities

• Join the Finance team to work on high-profile transactions.
• Advise key clients in banking and finance sectors.
• Forge strong working relationships with clients.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Project management

Team player

Education

Strong academic background

Job description

Banking & Finance Lawyer – Glasgow

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a junior level lawyer with 2-6 years PQE to join our Finance team in one of our offices in Glasgow.

Our Team

Our market-leading Scotland Finance team is known for its broad banking and financing expertise, which includes leveraged finance, real estate finance and corporate banking. It is also active in more specialist areas of finance, including fund financing, bank structural reform projects, central bank advisory work, and loan portfolio sale and purchase transactions. Our objective is to work on market-leading, high-profile transactions.

Key Clients Include:

• The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
• Bank of Scotland plc
• HSBC UK Bank plc
• Barclays Bank plc
• Homes England
• Clydesdale Bank plc
• Legal & General plc
• Santander UK plc
• Scottish National Investment Bank
• Bank of England

Recent Highlights:

• Advised National Westminster Bank plc on its acquisition of a £2.5bn residential mortgage portfolio from Metro Bank
• Advised Scottish National Investment Bank and UK Infrastructure Bank on their debt financing of the £300m redevelopment of Ardersier Port
• Acted for a syndicate of lenders in relation to the £1.3bn refinancing of a privately held food and drinks business from an English, Scottish and Spanish perspective

The Candidate Required

We are now looking to appoint ambitious junior lawyers who wish to advance their career at a top tier banking and finance practice.

Any successful applicant will:

• ideally have gained experience in a large commercial firm in banking, corporate, real estate or projects
• have a strong academic background
• have good commercial awareness and be client-focused
• be a team player with the ability to forge strong working relationships
• be well-organised and have good project management skills

What will we offer you?

• Exposure to market-leading, high-profile transactions
• A first-class training and career development programme
• Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships
• Genuine long-term career prospects

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,600 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services and technology, science and industry sectors. Services provided across these sectors include construction, projects, property, planning and environmental, procurement, asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, pensions, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in whichitspeople can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

Awards

We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as aTop Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as aDisability Confident Employerby theDepartment for Work & Pensionsand we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations -www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Steffy Lam who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffy-lam-715241238/

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At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

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