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Legal Counsel - Banking & Finance
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Legal Counsel – Banking & Finance (Interim)
London | Immediate Start
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Banking and Finance Lawyer to join the legal team of a fast-growing international energy business on an initial three-month contract, with the potential for extension.
Working as part of a collaborative in-house legal team, you will provide specialist legal support across a broad range of financing matters. You will work closely with treasury, finance, commercial and senior business stakeholders on strategically important domestic and cross-border transactions.
The Role
Key responsibilities are likely to include:
- Advising on a broad range of banking and finance matters, including corporate lending, acquisition and project finance, structured finance, refinancing and hedging arrangements.
- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating finance documentation, including facility agreements, loan agreements, guarantees, security documents, intercreditor arrangements, fee letters and conditions precedent.
- Advising on derivatives and hedging transactions, including the review and negotiation of ISDA documentation and related confirmations.
- Supporting the business on amendments, waivers, refinancings, restructurings and other changes to existing financing arrangements.
- Advising treasury and finance teams on financing structures, security packages, covenant compliance, risk allocation and transaction execution.
- Managing legal workstreams and coordinating with lenders, financial institutions, external counsel and other transaction parties.
- Providing pragmatic and commercially focused advice to senior stakeholders on complex banking and finance issues.
- Supporting wider finance-related legal matters across the business where required.
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About You
To be successful, you will ideally have:
- Approximately 3–7 years’ PQE gained within a leading banking and finance practice and/or an in-house legal team.
- Strong experience of banking and finance transactions, including drafting and negotiating facility agreements and associated security documentation.
- Experience in one or more of corporate lending, leveraged finance, project finance, structured finance or derivatives.
- A sound understanding of financing structures, lender requirements and transaction processes.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills.
- A pragmatic, commercial approach and the confidence to advise senior stakeholders directly.
- The ability to manage matters autonomously and work effectively in a fast-paced, transaction-driven environment.
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What’s on Offer
- An initial three-month contract with a genuine possibility of extension.
- The opportunity to join a high-performing and collegiate in-house legal team.
- Exposure to complex, high-value banking and finance transactions within a growing international business.
- Close interaction with treasury, finance and commercial stakeholders across the organisation.
Please note: Candidates must be available to commence within the next month. Applications from those with longer notice periods are unlikely to be suitable for this opportunity.
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