Banking & Finance Lawyer (2-4PQE)

Banking & Finance, Lawyer, Associate, Solicitor

The Opportunity
This top 50 UK law firms national corporate team provides a comprehensive range of legal services, with a particular focus on corporate transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, and trade sales and disposals. They also handle company formations, re-organisations and re-structuring, joint ventures, shareholders agreements and investment agreements and offer advice on general company law compliance and corporate governance. The banking team sits within the national Corporate team and provides advice on a wide range of finance transactions as well as corporate support work. They are currently recruiting for a Banking Lawyer with 2-4PQE to join their Corporate team.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Assisting partners and other fee earners with, and manage own caseload of, banking, real estate and funds finance transactions including acting for a broad range of lenders, borrowers and fund managers;
• Drafting, negotiating and agreeing loan agreements, intercreditor deeds, security documents and other ancillary documents based both on lender standard form documents and Loan Market Association documents;
• Project management of banking and real estate finance transactions and the associated team;
• Lead adviser liaising directly with clients and negotiating with solicitors acting for the borrower;
• Responsible for ensuring all conditions precedent on banking and real estate finance transactions are satisfied prior to completion;
• Assisting on fund structures including limited partnership agreements, companies limited by guarantee and other structures;
• Assisting on public sector finance agreements and arrangements and supporting on Subsidy Law matters;
• Dealing with post completion matters and registrations;
• Responsible for preparing weekly reports to the client with updates on ongoing matters;
• Manage matters in accordance with client SLAs;
• Work in accordance with Weightmans' values and procedures;
• Achieve set financial and chargeable time targets;
• Comply with Data Protection compliance and procedures;
• Complete Client MI procedures/databases as and when required

Benefits

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part time)
• Agile / working from home including provision of home office equipment*
• Healthcare cover/ Medicash
• Pension plan
• Life Insurance 4 x salary
• Interest free travel loan scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme including counselling, legal and consumer advice service
• Discounted gym membership
• Discounted dental scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Offers & discounts
• Great reward and recognition scheme

What you need to do now
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