Associate - Restructuring

A&O Shearman; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A&O Shearman's Restructuring and Insolvency team in Singapore is seeking an Associate to join our Finance practice. You'll draft, review and amend complex financing documentation while advising clients in cross-border restructurings.

As an associate, you will supervise junior team members, manage client expectations and contribute to business development, with opportunities to work on high-profile restructurings across global markets.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with strong financing documents knowledge.
• Excellent client relationship skills and ability to interface with partners and clients.
• Self-starter with ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced, international environment.
• Experience supervising junior team members and delivering pragmatic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and amending documentation for restructurings.
• Strategically advising clients in meetings, on the phone and in writing.
• Managing client expectations and project delivery.
• Business development – contributing to personal development and campaigns.
• Legal research.
• Supervision of junior team members.

Skills

Legal drafting

Client relations

Project management

Team supervision

Communication

Education

Law degree (Qualified lawyer)

Job description

We are recruiting for our Restructuring team in Singapore.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE

Our unrivalled restructuring and insolvency team, with more than 200 lawyers specialising in restructuring across 33 offices globally, is truly world class. With such an extensive and dedicated team, we advise on the largest and most complex restructurings, and pride ourselves on providing pioneering solutions as well as delivering real commercial results. We specialise in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies and special situation, utilising the full range of international options including U.S. Chapter 11 reorganisations, UK schemes of arrangement, pre-packaged sales and debt for equity swaps.

Our expertise covers advice on contingency planning, debt restructuring, special situation credit solutions (including drop down financing transactions), reschedulings, distressed acquisitions/sales, credit bidding, formal insolvency proceedings, out-of-court refinancings, liability management exercises and distressed debt trading. We advise creditors and investors at all levels of the capital structure as well as corporates/directors, central banks, insolvency officeholders/trustees and government institutions.

We work closely with specialists in related practice areas including finance, corporate, real estate, employment, pensions, tax, environment, regulatory, capital markets and litigation to provide our clients with a seamless and integrated service.

ROLE PURPOSE

We are recruiting for an Associate to join our Restructuring and Insolvency team as part of our Finance practice.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drafting, reviewing and amending documentation
• Strategically advising clients in meetings, on the phone and in writing
• Managing client expectations and project delivery appropriately
• Business development – development of personal plan, assistance with and implementation of business development campaign
• Legal research
• Supervision of junior team members

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Qualified lawyer
• Strong technical knowledge of financing documents and the legal framework surrounding restructuring transactions.
• Intellectual curiosity and versatility
• Self-starter with the desire and ability to continuously acquire, build upon and share knowledge
• Detail-focused and self-motivated approach
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Sound experience of operating at associate level within a complex international organisation
• Strong commercial/business acumen with the ability to deliver creative and pragmatic solutions and advice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface at all levels and particularly to win the respect of the partner and fee-earner community, building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast paced, intellectually rigorous environment
• A person of sound judgment, able to establish a high level of credibility

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

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