investment banking analyst London, England
Job description
We are recruiting for an Associate to join our Banking team in London, due to significant growth of our London Banking and Finance practice.
The Banking team provide expert and commercial advice in all areas of general corporate lending (including acquisition finance), real estate finance and renewables finance. We have the capacity to deal with all instructions, from the largest cross border syndicated transactions through to lower level strategically important bilateral lending.
Our London Banking team punches considerably above its weight in all aspects of its banking practice with transaction values generally between £20m and £500m.
It is an extremely exciting time to join TLT, as we are celebrating being named Law Firm of the Year 2022 at the prestigious British Legal Awards, following our 2021 success as Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer awards.
Your Role
The role would involve supporting partners develop their practices in corporate lending, structured finance, acquisition finance and renewables/clean energy finance. In particular, you would be supporting two new Partners in the London office who have recently joined TLT from Squire Patton Boggs.
You will manage your own caseloads ensuring your experience is varied and broad. Through our national service lines you will work with notable clients and become a sector specialist. You will receive bespoke training throughout your career ensuring you have the technical and commercial skills to build an effective and successful practice.
Once you are in the role of you will deliver the following:
- Manage your own transactions for a variety of clients and support Partners with larger transactions.
- Participate in business development opportunities and help to strengthen relationships with our clients.
- Focus on financial implications and targets at a team and group level, monitor and manage expenditure and other costs/benefits against targets.
- Provide an excellent service to our clients by working closely with colleagues from across the UK in both the Banking team and other specialisms.
You will also be supported by highly regarded experts in restructuring and insolvency, property, employment, and licensing, all with significant experience and understanding of the way in which lending institutions operate.
Your Skills and Experience
You must be/have:
- A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered), NQ-2PQE, with experience in banking and finance transactions.
- A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
- Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development, and an appetite for keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in your practice area and sector focus
- Able to understand your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
- An ambitious and enthusiastic team player, able to support senior fee earners and contribute to our collaborative culture.
Your Team
Operating from offices across the UK, our expanding and ambitious partner-led team provide tactical, commercially minded services across all aspects of financing. We act for a broad range of debt funders and have positions on the general lending panels of nearly all the high street lenders. In addition, we act for a wide spectrum of corporate borrowers in all of our key sectors in the investment and non investment grade spaces.
The focus of our banking team is acting lender side on transactions including acting for all of the UK clearing banks, the so-called challenger banks and investment funds. The team also advises many of the firm’s corporate and real estate clients who are undertaking transactions in the debt markets.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on [email protected]
