Banking & Finance lawyer

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As a Banking & Finance Lawyer at Burges Salmon you will be part of a collaborative, lively transactional team working on a variety of banking and finance matters.

The Firm

We bring new ideas and perspectives to everything we do, without ever compromising the quality of our work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by high quality work and specialist expertise every day, as you make an impact on a national and international scale.

Our collaborative approach to how we do business is totally refreshing. It’s what attracts some of the best legal minds in the industry and it’s why our people love working here.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have recently been voted by our people as a RollOnFriday’s ‘Firm of the Year to Work for 2022’.

And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?

The Team

Our Banking & Finance team offer a full complement of banking and finance legal services, which includes advising borrowers, lenders and sponsors on a variety of debt (and debt-related) transactions. These transactions vary in size from £1 million to £1 billion; our core market is debt of £20 million to £200 million.

Our banking & finance lawyers work collaboratively with colleagues across the firm including corporate, real estate and tax acting for banks, building societies, debt and pension funds and other financial institutions, alongside numerous PLCs and large corporate clients around the world. Including:

HSBC // Metlife // Lloyds Banking Group // National Express Group // Beechbrook Capital LLP // DRC // Natwest // Santander // National Australia Bank // Investec // Gravis Capital Partners

While the team is based in Bristol and Edinburgh, most of our work originates in London and the wider UK. For cross-border matters, we work closely with our preferred firm international network.

• Banking & Finance
• Burges Salmon advises Santander on growth funding support for Whyte Bikes
• Burges Salmon advises Clarks on restructuring of debt facilities

What others say...

"Burges Salmon LLP has exceptional communication skills and handles financing transactions on a UK and cross-jurisdictional ", they are "a professional, accurate and friendly firm of solicitors" (Legal 500, 2021).

Work

The Banking team work in partnership with their clients and we form our thinking around their needs to ensure we deliver the right solutions when it matters. Our key areas of expertise are:

• Real Estate Finance (including offices, hotels, student accommodation, care homes and housing)
• Energy and Infrastructure Finance
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Corporate and Leveraged Debt
• Asset finance, asset backed lending and securitisations
• B2B, Peer to Peer and private banking
• Derivatives

Requirements

• Qualified Banking and Finance Lawyer
• Strong, recent and relevant work experience focused on banking and financial transactions.
• You will be keen to continue your professional development, coupled with strong commercial acumen.
• A SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer.

It’s important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

We’re committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

Get in touch!

If you would like to have an informal, confidential conversation to find out more, please contact Penny Bowring, T: +44 (0) 117 307 6201.