Head of Legal - Equity and Joint Ventures

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Legal, Equity and Joint Ventures team to deliver high-quality legal services.
• Provide legal input into equity finance and joint venture transactions, lending alliances cornerstone fund investments and guarantee programmes, ensuring strategic alignment.
• Draft, negotiate and review investment documentation.
• Provide legal advice across banking, property, construction, public law and governance.
• Provide direction to external counsel and panel lawyers and manage external advisers.
• Advise on deal structuring and mitigation strategies to protect investments and manage risk.
• Identify and manage legal risks across investment programmes and ensure compliance.
• Develop and implement legal strategies and policies to support project delivery.
• Present complex legal issues to senior stakeholders and support decision-making.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external advisers to deliver integrated legal solutions.
• Review and draft banking and finance documentation.
• Lead and manage the structuring of loans and security package.
• Lead and manage investment transactions to ensure they progress efficiently, identifying bottlenecks, legal risk and escalating where needed. Propose solutions on a risk based approach.
• Reviewing and commenting on committee papers regarding investment transactions.
• Attending committee meetings and project boards.
• Partner closely and create a solid working relationship with transaction, risk, and finance teams
• Create efficiencies (e.g. developing template documentation and contributing to process improvement, precedent management, and general legal risk management within the team).
• Support and collaborate with the wider General Counsel’s Office team.
• Support and collaborate with the wider teams such as procurement, data protection and information governance.
• Advising on corporate governance, appropriate approval routes and general company law matters.
• Support on all programmes including the affordable homes programme and low interest loans.
• Providing training to the Investment transaction teams.
• Manage, support and train the other solicitors within the Investment team as required.

Person specification

Key Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Qualified Solicitor with a current Practising Certificate.
• Extensive experience in equity investments, financial products and secured lending.
• Proven ability to lead and manage complex legal transactions and programmes.
• Strong knowledge of joint venture agreements and construction industry contracts.
• Understanding of public law issues including procurement and subsidy control.
• Experience advising at Board level and supporting effective governance.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and mentor junior legal professionals.
• Ability to manage a busy workload, work autonomously and communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong intellectual and analytical skills to provide blended commercial and public sector legal advice.
• Pragmatic, detail focused, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast paced environment

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

• Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
• Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
• Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
• We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects