Pinsent Masons
Banking and Finance Lawyer
Job Location
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Job Description
BANKING & FINANCE LAWYER - Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow
Brief
We are currently looking to recruit a junior level lawyer with 0-4 years PQE to join our Finance team in one of our offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Our Team
Our market-leading Scotland Finance team is known for its broad banking and financing expertise, which includes leveraged finance, real estate finance and corporate banking. It is also active in more specialist areas of finance, including fund financing, bank structural reform projects, central bank advisory work, and loan portfolio sale and purchase transactions. Our objective is to work on market-leading, high-profile transactions.
Key Clients Include:
Recent Highlights:
The Candidate Required
We are now looking to appoint ambitious junior lawyers who wish to advance their career at a top tier banking and finance practice.
Any successful applicant will:
What will we offer you?
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,600 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services and technology, science and industry sectors. Services provided across these sectors include construction, projects, property, planning and environmental, procurement, asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, pensions, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades .
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Steffy Lam who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffy-lam-715241238/
steffy.lam@pinsentmasons.com
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
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Location: Edinburgh, GB
Posted Date: 9/24/2024
Brief
We are currently looking to recruit a junior level lawyer with 0-4 years PQE to join our Finance team in one of our offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Our Team
Our market-leading Scotland Finance team is known for its broad banking and financing expertise, which includes leveraged finance, real estate finance and corporate banking. It is also active in more specialist areas of finance, including fund financing, bank structural reform projects, central bank advisory work, and loan portfolio sale and purchase transactions. Our objective is to work on market-leading, high-profile transactions.
Key Clients Include:
- The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
- Bank of Scotland plc
- HSBC UK Bank plc
- Barclays Bank plc
- Homes England
- Clydesdale Bank plc
- Legal & General plc
- Santander UK plc
- Scottish National Investment Bank
- Bank of England
Recent Highlights:
- Advised National Westminster Bank plc on its acquisition of a £2.5bn residential mortgage portfolio from Metro Bank
- Advised Scottish National Investment Bank and UK Infrastructure Bank on their debt financing of the £300m redevelopment of Ardersier Port
- Acted for a syndicate of lenders in relation to the £1.3bn refinancing of a privately held food and drinks business from an English, Scottish and Spanish perspective
The Candidate Required
We are now looking to appoint ambitious junior lawyers who wish to advance their career at a top tier banking and finance practice.
Any successful applicant will:
- ideally have gained experience in a large commercial firm in banking, corporate, real estate or projects
- have a strong academic background
- have good commercial awareness and be client-focused
- be a team player with the ability to forge strong working relationships
- be well-organised and have good project management skills
What will we offer you?
- Exposure to market-leading, high-profile transactions
- A first-class training and career development programme
- Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships
- Genuine long-term career prospects
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,600 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services and technology, science and industry sectors. Services provided across these sectors include construction, projects, property, planning and environmental, procurement, asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, pensions, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We're being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT's most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters' leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a 'Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023' for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500
Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades .
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Steffy Lam who can discuss the role and requirements.
Contact details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffy-lam-715241238/
steffy.lam@pinsentmasons.com
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
#LI-LRSL
Location: Edinburgh, GB
Posted Date: 9/24/2024
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