Associate (Maritime, Trade and Offshore Finance)

STEPHENSON HARWOOD LLP; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Singapore is seeking a junior/mid-level associate for its Maritime, Trade and Offshore Finance team. The role involves working on marine asset finance and banking transactions, with opportunities to work on prominent deals. Candidates should be qualified lawyers with strong finance legal experience and excellent communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary and development opportunities within a dynamic practice.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Life assurance

Private health and dental care

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experienced qualified lawyer in either Singapore, England & Wales or any other common law jurisdiction.
• Proven Finance legal experience gained in private practice.
• Accuracy and attention to detail, with good file management practices.

Responsibilities

• Involve in marine asset finance, banking, and project finance transactions.
• Draft and review financing or leasing documentation, negotiate transaction documents.
• Manage client files and relationships actively.

Skills

Finance legal experience

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Team player

Education

Qualified lawyer

Strong academic credentials

Job description

What we will offer:

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.

You can expect:

• A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
• Life assurance, private health and dental care for you and your family
• The opportunity to support the firm's charity through volunteering leave
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health, and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical, emotional, financial and social aspects.

Team Structure

This role is working within our Maritime, Trade and Offshore Finance team.

Main Responsibilities

• As a junior/mid-level associate within the team, the role will involve a broad range of marine asset finance, general banking and project finance transactions for our clients across the region including Korea, PRC (including Hong Kong) and Singapore.
• Working alongside a team of highly experienced and commercially astute partners and colleagues, you will have the opportunity to work on market-leading, high-profile deals. You will be involved in drafting and reviewing of financing or leasing documentation, negotiating the terms of transaction documents, legal research, and supporting in the management of client files and relationships.
• Candidates must be able to strive to achieve very high-quality standards and have a passion for delivering excellence to clients. This role will suit an ambitious and enthusiastic lawyer with excellent communication skills, and who brings their energy and intellectual curiosity to our dynamic, high performing team.
• As well as your technical rigour, the successful applicant will thrive on a busy and successful working environment. They will want to be a part of a practice that encourages participation in business development events, and who is able to build strong working relationships with clients and colleagues alike.
• This role will suit an ambitious and enthusiastic lawyer with good communication skills who would enjoy the challenge of a dynamic practice area. And in return, the successful candidate will join a mature, tier 1 ranked practice, where they can expect great work, supervision by market-leading partners, high quality learning & development opportunities, and an attractive remuneration and benefits package.

Attributes / Skills Required

• Experienced qualified lawyer in either Singapore, England & Wales or any other common law jurisdiction
• Proven Finance legal experience gained in private practice – i.e. asset, project and/or banking finance experience, ideally gained at a leading Singapore, UK or US firm.
• Strong academic credentials are expected
• Able to develop informal internal and external network of contacts
• An intellectually curious, lateral thinker who can work independently, is highly organised, and resilient
• Accuracy and attention to detail, with demonstrable good housekeeping and file management practices
• A proven team player, exhibiting cooperation, collaboration and using one's initiative
• Excellent numerical and communication skills with demonstrated commercial awareness.

This job description is indicative only and does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The firm reserves the right to alter or change the responsibilities at any time, in line with the firm's strategy and business needs.