Banking Senior Associate

Michael Page Legal; Manchester; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Bonus scheme

Job summary

Michael Page Legal in Reading is seeking a Banking Senior Associate to support clients with complex legal matters within a leading law firm that has offices in Manchester. You will manage high-quality work and contribute to client satisfaction.

The role focuses on leveraged finance, corporate financings, corporate/sponsor-led transactions, and growth lending, with involvement across the transaction lifecycle, including facilities agreements, security documents, and intercreditor work.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years PQE in a banking role.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating facilities agreements and security documents (LMA and non-LMA).
• Negotiating intercreditor arrangements and collaborating with corporate and restructuring teams.
• Managing in-life work on portfolio matters with lenders and borrowers.

Job description

As a Banking Senior Associate in Reading, you'll play a key role in supporting clients with complex legal matters within our client, a leading law firm with offices in Manchester. You'll manage high-quality legal work while contributing to the success of the legal team and ensuring client satisfaction.

Client Details

Our client is a well known, highly regarded law firm . The have a national banking and finance team that advises clients on a range of financing transactions across a wide variety of sectors, often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Acting for borrowers, lenders and investors means they have a practical understanding of the needs of all parties to a financing transaction. Expertise extends to corporate lending, leverage finance, asset finance, real estate finance (investment and development), project finance and invoice discounting both on a bilateral and a syndicated basis. As a Banking Senior Associate you will be working closely with some of the UK's major banks and financial institutions.

The Manchester office is dynamic and entrepreneurial, affording a great opportunity for an ambitious lawyer to contribute to expansion of the practice and to advance personally.

Description

As a Banking Senior Associate the work on offer is varied with a focus on leveraged finance, corporate financings, corporate /sponsor led transactions and growth lending / venture debt. We work across the full transaction lifecycle including drafting and negotiating facilities agreements and security documents (both LMA and non-LMA form), negotiating intercreditor arrangements and working closely with our client's corporate and restructuring teams. The team also does a material amount of in life work on a portfolio basis working with lenders and borrowers on waivers, re-sets, restatements and bolt-ons.

With a consistent volume of transactions, this is an excellent platform to assume matter responsibility and there is ample opportunity to participate in client development initiatives.

Profile

A successful Banking Senior Associate should have between 3-6 years PQE in a similar banking role. Please note the level of experience identified in this advert is a guide only and does not preclude candidates with more or less experience from applying.

Job Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from £68,000 to £90,000, dependent on the level of experience.
• Hybrid working arrangements for flexibility.
• Bonus scheme to reward performance.

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