Pinsent Masons
Finance Lawyer, Senior Associate
Job Location
Belfast, United Kingdom
Job Description
Finance Lawyer, Senior Associate - 6+ years PQE
Location: Belfast
Brief
We are currently looking to recruit a Finance Senior Associate 6+ years PQE, to join our Belfast Finance Team.
Background
We advise a broad range of lenders and borrowers on a wide variety of syndicated and bilateral financing transactions. We act for all the UK clearing banks and a growing number of other European banks and borrowers on all types of facilities, from acquisition finance, real estate finance, social housing, education finance and general corporate lending to debt capital markets. Our practice is broad and very varied. We advise on English law matters and high value NI local market transactions. We are always client facing and have advised on several high value and significant financing transactions across the UK.
We deliver a high-quality legal service banking and finance team with access to a deep knowledge of current market practice. We deliver this through a partner led service and strongly believe in being fully joined up across our global network of offices.
Our talented team of lawyers has an insight and appreciation of the needs and pressures of clients in the financial services sector. We are renowned for the quality and speed of delivery of our advice, our innovative thinking and a grasp of commercial issues.
The successful candidate will:
What will we offer you?
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,900 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons was the Financial Times, Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe in 2023 and is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions, and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this, please let us know.
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.
Pinsent Masons in an Equal Opportunities Employer
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi
Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com
#LI-LRJC
#INDL
Location: Belfast, GB
Posted Date: 11/22/2024
Location: Belfast
Brief
We are currently looking to recruit a Finance Senior Associate 6+ years PQE, to join our Belfast Finance Team.
Background
We advise a broad range of lenders and borrowers on a wide variety of syndicated and bilateral financing transactions. We act for all the UK clearing banks and a growing number of other European banks and borrowers on all types of facilities, from acquisition finance, real estate finance, social housing, education finance and general corporate lending to debt capital markets. Our practice is broad and very varied. We advise on English law matters and high value NI local market transactions. We are always client facing and have advised on several high value and significant financing transactions across the UK.
We deliver a high-quality legal service banking and finance team with access to a deep knowledge of current market practice. We deliver this through a partner led service and strongly believe in being fully joined up across our global network of offices.
Our talented team of lawyers has an insight and appreciation of the needs and pressures of clients in the financial services sector. We are renowned for the quality and speed of delivery of our advice, our innovative thinking and a grasp of commercial issues.
The successful candidate will:
- have gained experience in a commercial law firm in Northern Ireland, England, or Ireland
- have general banking experience with particular focus on real estate finance and general corporate lending;
- ideally have experience in Social Housing (but not essential) and be willing to learn new skills;
- be confident in drafting and negotiating LMA documentation;
- be a team player, able to forge strong working relationships with colleagues both in the office and in an agile environment;
- be technically strong and exercise good commercial judgment;
- have the interpersonal skills necessary for this client-facing role;
- have experience in people management and supervising/training junior solicitors and trainees;
- have a \"can-do\" attitude and be willing to work with colleagues and partners collaboratively and enthusiastically in the national finance practice, and other senior lawyers in that group, on both transactions and practice development; and
- be NI qualified and preferably England and Wales qualified or be willing to gain the qualification.
What will we offer you?
- We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
- We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme. Our training reflects our position as a market leader. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver \"best in class\" services.
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,900 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons was the Financial Times, Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe in 2023 and is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions, and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this, please let us know.
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.
Pinsent Masons in an Equal Opportunities Employer
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi
Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com
#LI-LRJC
#INDL
Location: Belfast, GB
Posted Date: 11/22/2024
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