Job Description

Banking Lawyer

Banking Lawyer - 3-4 years PQE

Location: Birmingham

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a Birmingham based Lawyer with 3-4yrs PQE to join our Finance team. The work will be on banking transactions in respect of real estate finance, leveraged finance and corporate lending, regionally and nationally.

Background

We advise a broad range of funders and borrowers on a wide variety of financing transactions. We act for all the UK clearing banks, a number of other European and investment banks, independent financiers and investment funds on all types of facilities from acquisition finance, leveraged finance and real estate finance. We also act for many borrowers, from listed companies to small enterprises, on their financings. Our practice is broad and very varied.


We have a high quality legal service banking team with access to a deep knowledge of current market practice. We deliver a truly partner led service and strongly believe in being fully joined up across our 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 our grasp of commercial issues.


Independent commentators on the legal profession rate our group's abilities across the range of specialist banking areas in which we advise and describe us as "impressive and prized by the high-profile banking clients" for whom we act.

Key clients

UK clearing Banks Independent Funders Investment Banks Corporate borrowers

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate must have experience as a qualified finance lawyer. The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience in either a leading national or City firm. Candidates must be technically strong but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development. They will be a team player with a strong client focussed approach and excellent communication and organisational skills. A willingness to work across a variety of the banking specialism, and with a number of different partners, is a must. In return the candidate will receive unrivalled exposure to a range of exciting and challenging finance work.


The Opportunity


The very best national and international work. Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships. Genuine long-term career prospects supported through our "best in class" training and our Academy personal development programmes.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 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 value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people 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 their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.


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 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


As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi

Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com

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