Ashurst Perkins Coie
Junior Associate, GLGM (Structured Products)
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About Ashurst Perkins Coie
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
- Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and discounted corporate health plans
- Flexible work options
Team Overview
Our Structured Products Group (SPG) is a market leading practice. Our clients are most of the top tier investment banks. The practice is global, in the sense that we handle projects and offerings in EMEA, Asia and US. There will be regular opportunities for secondments to leading investment banks.
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SPG is part of the broader Global Markets and Global Loans group - which includes Derivatives, Dept Capital Markets, Securitisation, Blockchain Capital Markets and Shari'ah products - there are opportunities to work in these areas as well. Globalk Markets, in turn, sits within the broader Finance division within Ashurst, which includes the Financial Regulatory, Global Loans, Restructurings and Funds groups.
The Opportunity
You would typically act on all elements of a structured products offering or platform from instruction, through to closing and post-closing. Depending on your level of experience, your specific areas of responsibility will initially be to produce initial drafts of agreements, draft and negotiate structured product documents and ensure a smooth process to transaction close.
You would also be expected to manage projects that have been assigned to you and liaise closely with colleagues, clients, counterparties and other advisers. You would be expected to work with minimal supervision and be confident to take the lead with client related matters. You would be working as part of a committed and inspired friendly team that enjoys its work and considers itself a leader in its field of practice. All members of the team have frequent client contact.
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Main Tasks:
- Drafting of legal documents and agreements;
- Review of legal documents and agreements
- Contributing to department know-how;
- Advising clients and giving client presentations;
- Leading negotiations with counterparts;
This is a full-time, permanent position based in our London office with hybrid working.
About You
- Post qualification experience in international finance transactions of the types referred to above, preferably structured products (but debt capital markets and/or derivatives will suffice), with a reputable international law firm.
- Good organisational skills and experience in transaction management.
- Excellent academic track record.
- Enthusiasm for intellectually challenging work.
- Excellent client relationship skills and experience of business development.
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