Senior Debt Finance Associate — Global Banking Practice

White & Case LLP; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 310,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

White & Case LLP seeks mid-level and senior associates with strong debt finance transaction experience to join the Americas Banking practice in Boston. You will handle commitment letters, term sheets, and loan documents, coordinating with partners and cross-border teams on multi-jurisdictional financings across industries.

You will work on due diligence, client communications, and deal administration while mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to client development.

Qualifications

• At least four years of debt finance experience.
• Preferred experience includes sponsored finance, syndicated lending, acquisition/leveraged finance (borrower or lender side) and/or direct lending and private credit.
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker.
• Project management experience.
• Commercial and business acumen.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure with multiple projects.
• Excellent drafting skills.
• Driven by professional growth.
• Client service focus.
• Team player.
• Strong judgment.
• Proactive, resourceful, takes initiative and a self-starter.
• Fluency in English.
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commitment letters and term sheets as well as primary loan and security documentation and ancillary deliverables
• Preparation and review of issues lists and summary grids
• Conducting legal research, depending on client needs
• Managing deal teams and processes from initial discussions through closing and post-closing matters
• Managing and conducting due diligence
• Primary point of contact for clients, opposing counsel and other transactional legal teams
• Assisting clients with ongoing deal administration including joinders, amendments, interpretive questions, collateral matters, etc.
• Providing direct assistance to senior lawyers on matters arising in the course of day-to-day provision of legal services to clients
• Attending and presenting educational seminars
• Exercising good judgment in internal and external written and verbal communications
• Mentoring and training of junior team-members and attendance at, and participation in, continuing education classes and client development initiative

Skills

Debt finance

Sponsored finance

Syndicated lending

Acquisition/leveraged finance

Direct lending

Private credit transactions

Drafting skills

Project management

Time management

English fluency

Team player

Mentoring

Client service

Communication skills

Education

Bar admission / JD

Job description

White & Case LLP seeks mid-level and senior associates with strong debt finance transaction experience to join the Americas Banking practice in Boston. You will handle commitment letters, term sheets, and loan documents, coordinating with partners and cross-border teams on multi-jurisdictional financings across industries.

You will work on due diligence, client communications, and deal administration while mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to client development.