Associate

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team. An innovative practice and the first top 100 law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm. The lack of barriers between departments, a real lack of hierarchy, zero tolerance for arrogance and pomposity makes Shoosmiths a fantastic place to work.

Our national banking and finance team advises clients on a range of financing transactions across a wide variety of sectors, often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Acting for borrowers, lenders and investors means we have a practical understanding of the needs of all parties to a financing transaction. Our expertise extends to corporate lending, leverage finance, asset finance, real estate finance (both investment and development), project finance and invoice discounting both on a bilateral and a syndicatable basis. We work closely with some of the UK's major banks and financial institutions, and have approved panel status with many of them.

Our excellent national team is going from strength to strength, having welcomed four new partners in the last twelve months. We are delighted to have a new banking partner joining our Leeds team in February 2021.  She has a particular focus on leveraged and venture debt.  We are now recruiting in order to support that new appointment.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an associate to join our team. You will be able to work closely with the partners and national team on their matters and will be heavily involved in some high value transactions. 

The successful candidate will have spent at least one seat of their training contract or the early part of their career in a banking and finance discipline. You will have experience liaising with borrowers, lenders and investors on the full transaction lifecycle and be confident reviewing conditions precedent and drafting security documents. We are looking for someone with strong general banking experience, but who ideally has a particular interest and experience in leverage finance transactions.

Working closely with the local and national banking team, we would expect you to be able to support and assist others in the team on a range of work, including leverage finance, real estate finance, corporate lending and ABL.

Shoosmiths is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.