Derivatives and Structured Products Senior Associate

Hogan Lovells; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global law firm is seeking a Senior Associate in derivatives and structured products in London. This role involves advising clients, leading transactions, and managing client relationships. Candidates should have 4+ years of experience, strong academic backgrounds, and excellent communication skills, along with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent training and development

Agile working environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years post qualification experience in derivatives and structured finance required.
• Excellent written communication and drafting skills essential.
• Experience gained within a top-tier firm is a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on derivatives and structured products transactions.
• Lead structured product transactions with direct reporting.
• Client relationship management and project ownership.

Skills

Legal principles understanding

Strong project management

Interpersonal skills

Commercial awareness

Attention to detail

Education

Strong academic background

Job description

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Derivatives and Structured Products Senior Associate

Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R257415

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Job Title

Derivatives and Structured Products Senior Associate

Department

Debt Capital Markets

Location

London

Reports To

Group Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office,please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

Hogan Lovells debt capital markets practice offers expert advice on a full range of debt capital markets and structured finance transactions and derivatives. It operates as an integrated part of an international debt capital markets and structured finance team.

We are recruiting for a senior associate to join our busy derivatives and structured products practice. The work involves advising clients on:

• the establishment and updating of on and off balance sheet structured products programmes;
• securitised and OTC derivatives;
• hedging arrangements as part of structured finance transactions;
• structured repo and securities lending arrangements;
• repackagings; and regulatory advice connected with the above.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Technical Ability

• Possesses good working knowledge and understanding of the legal principles associated with the scope of work outlined above; proactively develops this knowledge further.
• Shows awareness of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
• Ability to lead derivatives and structured products transactions, reporting directly to the supervising partner.

Team Work and Interpersonal Skills

• Motivated, reliable and flexible.
• Resilient and able to perform effectively under pressure with good time management skills (eg meets deadlines and responds to requests in a highly timely manner).
• Good attention to detail and focus on accuracy.
• Has an appreciation of when to seek advice and guidance.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Takes responsibility for project issues (i.e., “owns” the problem, seeks to understand assigned tasks, follows through).
• Strong interpersonal skills (internal and client facing), both written and oral.
• Ability to work effectively with others in a team.
• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrates financial awareness – attention to budgets and costs and timely completion of time recording.
• Uses appropriate level of effort for the task (e.g., performs the appropriate amount of research based on partner and matter needs); works cost effectively to provide value to meet clients’ needs
• Takes ownership for own career development – proactive in soliciting performance feedback and addressing skills gaps.

Client Focus

• Understands the industry and market in which the clients operate.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness – aware of clients' commercial drivers and own role in achieving clients' business goals.
• Has good working relationships with clients, appropriate to the level of experience.
• Has a good understanding of clients, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.

Firm Mindedness

• Takes an active role in managing the firm's reputation both in and out of work.
• Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.
• Understands the value of a diverse workforce.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

We have an opening for a first rate derivatives and structured products senior lawyer. Experience gained within a top tier firm is a requirement. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will have four plus years post qualification experience (or equivalent experience).

In return, Hogan Lovells offers excellent training and development, a superb working environment together with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

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