Description:
A Distinctively Global Law Firm seeks an Associate Attorney to for the Banking & Finance practice to represent banks and other financial institutions as well as arrangers, originators and issuers in a variety of complex and innovative financing transactions, with a focus on securitizations and structured products including CLOs, CMBS, RMBS, auto, credit cards, and trade receivables financings. Develop legal strategies and solutions on both domestic and cross-border sophisticated structured finance arrangement. Coordinate and negotiate deal documentation from inception to fruition and provide legal analysis on new and existing regulatory issues and reforms facing clients. #LI-DNIPosition requires a Juris Doctor degree and 6 months of experience with representing issuers, sponsors, lending institutions, and investment funds in complex debt finance and structured finance transactions, encompassing a multiplicity of asset classes within the securitization space. Experience must include a minimum of: Experience with providing legal guidance for deal teams, including due diligence through closing; experience with drafting and negotiating terms for structured finance transactions including term deal securitizations, CLOs, catastrophe bonds, warehouse securitization financings; experience with coordinating with European, tax, ERISA, and regulatory counsel on the structuring of structured financing transactions; experience with cross-border transactions in the US and in the EU; experience with lending institutions and corporate borrowers in complex debt finance transactions, including leveraged finance transactions, in the context of M&A, bilateral and syndicated lending, secured and unsecured financings, first lien and second lien financings, and cross-border financings; experience with providing guidance to deal teams, including due diligence, closings, and regulatory filings to state and federal agencies; experience with documenting and negotiating terms for the full range of finance transactions; experience with middle market lending, including representing banks and alternative capital providers; experience with cross-border transactions in the United States and Europe, including working with local counsel in domestic and foreign jurisdictions regarding the provision of local law security documents, legal opinions, and corporate authorizations; experience with structuring, documentation, negotiation, and implementation of acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and divestments; and experience with issuers and underwriters in private and public securitization transactions, including regulatory requirements.
