Paralegal - Structured and Aviation Finance

STEPHENSON HARWOOD LLP; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A top-tier law firm in Singapore is seeking an enthusiastic aviation finance lawyer to join their accomplished team. You will work on high-profile transactions, providing support, drafting related documents, and managing client relationships. The ideal candidate will have a law degree, strong communication skills, and attention to detail, thriving in a dynamic environment. This role offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Family-friendly policies

Private health and dental care

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Qualifications in law with experience in aviation finance is preferred.
• Proven ability to draft financing and leasing documentation.
• Experience in transaction management and administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide support on multiple aviation finance transactions.
• Draft and review corporate authorities.
• Coordinate DocuSign signing processes.
• Prepare reports and notes of advice.
• Manage relationships with clients and local counsel.

Skills

Team player

Accuracy and attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Lateral thinker

Organized and resilient

Education

Law degree

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

Stephenson Harwood has been established in Asia since 1979. We have a leading asset and structured finance practice. Our award-winning aviation finance team is one of the largest in Asia and ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific and Asia Pacific Legal 500.

Our team of acknowledged leading practitioners and highly talented aviation lawyers bring to the table a genuine in-depth knowledge and understanding of the aviation industry, which, when combined with a practical hands‑on approach and high levels of legal expertise, enables us to deliver the commercial outcome our clients are looking for, effectively and cost efficiently.

We have decades of accumulated experience acting for:

• airlines
• lessors
• financiers and the major transportation banks

This experience means our aviation specialist lawyers have a 360‑degree understanding of how the aviation industry works and can leverage that knowledge and experience to the benefit of clients without any re‑invention of wheels or cost inefficiencies. Our approach is driven by listening to our clients’ commercial objectives, making sure we understand what it is that they want to achieve, within what timeframe, at what cost, and resourcing the job with the right team.

Main responsibilities

You will be working within a highly experienced and commercially astute team, you will have the opportunity to work on market-leading, high-profile deals. You will be expected to strive to achieve very high-quality standards and a passion for delivering excellence to clients.

This role will suit an ambitious and enthusiastic lawyer with excellent communication skills who enjoys the challenge of a dynamic and high performing team.

• Working with the Aviation Finance team to provide support on multiple transactions
• Drafting and reviewing corporate authorities and taking ownership of conditions precedent documentation and delivery
• Arranging for legal searches and filings where necessary
• Co‑ordinating DocuSign signing processes
• Preparing reports and basic notes of advice
• Aviation finance transactions are generally fast-moving and offer the opportunity to work closely with our clients, other law firms and local counsel and take primary responsibility for discrete aspects of our transactions.
• You will gain broad market experience and be exposed to a range of different types of financing and leasing transactions. You will develop strong transaction management and administration skills.

Attributes / skills required

The successful candidate is expected to have the right mix of technical experience with a collaborative and team-oriented disposition. We are keen to hear from applicants with qualifications, experience as well as key skills and attributes as follows:

• 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 and collaboration and who enjoys building excellent working relationships with clients and peers within the firm
• Clear, concise, and unambiguous drafting of financing and leasing documentation
• Responsibility for transaction management and administration, including liaison with key client contacts and local counsel
• Assisting with the day‑to‑day development and management of key client relationships
• Proven ability to acquire, consolidate and apply fundamental and up‑to‑date knowledge of the law
• Possess a good understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements
• Organised and with a resilience that shows an ability to handle setbacks and timeline pressures all while operating professionally and proactively at all times
• Regional language skills are preferred

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.