Asset Finance Associate

Clifford Chance; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Clifford Chance's Debt Finance Group advises lenders, lessors, banks, funds, manufacturers, operators, and investors on asset finance across aviation, shipping, rail, and other movable, high-value assets. The team covers secured lending, operating and finance leases, and complex financing structures.

The role requires meaningful cross-border asset finance experience, aviation expertise, and familiarity with ECA-supported financings and ABS transactions, typically gained at a peer Am Law or

Qualifications

• Requires meaningful experience advising lenders, lessors, investors, underwriters, or sponsors on cross-border asset finance transactions.
• Requires substantial experience in aviation and other transportation finance, including aircraft and high-value equipment financings.
• Requires experience with a broad range of transaction types, including operating and finance leases, secured lending, leveraged leasing, portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, and asset-backed or structured finance transactions, including EETCs.
• Requires familiarity with export credit agency (ECA)-supported financings, ABS, and other innovative or complex financing structures.
• Requires prior experience at a peer Am Law or international law firm.

Job description

Overview

• The firm's Debt Finance Group advises lessors, financiers, banks, funds, manufacturers, operators, and investors on asset finance across aviation, shipping, rail, and other movable, high-value assets. The group's work encompasses secured lending, operating and finance leases, sale and leaseback, export credit, and other structured financings, covering structuring, security and enforcement, documentation, closings, portfolio acquisitions and disposals, and restructurings.
• Requires meaningful experience advising lenders, lessors, investors, underwriters, or sponsors on cross-border asset finance transactions.
• Requires substantial experience in aviation and other transportation finance, including aircraft and high-value equipment financings.
• Requires experience with a broad range of transaction types, including operating and finance leases, secured lending, leveraged leasing, portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, and asset-backed or structured finance transactions, including EETCs.
• Requires familiarity with export credit agency (ECA)-supported financings, ABS, and other innovative or complex financing structures.
• Requires prior experience at a peer Am Law or international law firm.