FINANCIAL LITIGATION - WEST END 1-2PQE
- Recruiter
- Noble Legal Limited
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Posted
- 27 Aug 2014
- Closes
- 03 Sep 2014
- Ref
- DS11677
- Contact
- Daniel Smith
- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Banking/Finance, Derivatives, ISDA Documentation, Litigation/Dispute Resolution, Commercial Litigation
- PQE
- 1-3 Years
- Experience Level
- Junior Level
Our client is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500 directories for excellence in financial litigation. This is an opportunity to join an ambitious, talented and energetic group of lawyers who are forging a strong reputation as a leading firm in the field of claims against banks.
The Group has expanded quickly over the past 3 years and now has strong presence as one of the small number of teams able and willing to undertaking large-scale and complex claims against banks and other financial services institutions, including in relation to derivatives and other structured products. The team's clients include bank customers in a variety of industries including property investors and developers, hoteliers and care home operators as well as investment funds/asset managers and other finance industry entities.
The job is a challenging one and may appeal to a one-year+ PQE solicitor who is currently at a large firm and wants a role that involves responsibility and a high degree of client-facing work and has substantial experience of interest rate swap cases.
The candidate needs a robust, but measured, approach that creates confidence with the client that it will be well-represented against major opponents. Our opponents are often represented by Magic Circle and Silver Circle law firms.
The candidate will actively assist in building up the firm's financial services disputes area, working predominantly on his or her own IRS files, but assisting others for the larger cases and also with non- IRS cases. Experience of IRS cases is essential as is a real interest in the legal and technical aspects of swaps.
We take a commercial, but fair, approach to the financial aspects of dealing with clients and the candidate will have an obligation to bill clients regularly, in accordance with the firm's practices, and to have an appropriate commercial awareness of lock-up i.e. WIP and debt.
The group is very business-development orientated. The candidate will be expected to participate in client hospitality events and also help develop the group's offering in new areas of banking claims as they emerge. The strategy of the group is to be at the heart of new developments - with the Press, politicians, expert witnesses and other lawyers and where appropriate with pressure groups. Current areas of interest are LIBOR manipulation, CMBS, Forex manipulation and the activities of RBS GRG and we are actively building up awareness, contacts and legal knowledge in these areas.
A substantial part of the work will be handling IRS cases at the non-volume end of the market; the team have been dealing with swap claims since 2010 and have focused on the larger and more complex swaps. A typical client is a property company or an hotelier, possibly with substantial assets and sometimes operating from offshore. They have dealt with about £1.5 billion of swaps and have extensive legal and technical knowledge.
Work also includes claims against banks and other financial institutions arising out of lending, the mis-selling of other financial products and negligent investment advice, as well as other disputes involving the financial services industry and the candidate will participate in this.For a confidential chat, please don't hesitate to call on +44 (0)20 7691 2888 and ask for one of our dedicated consultants.
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