LOCATION: South Africa-Johannesburg
JOB: Finance, Projects & Restructuring
SCHEDULE: Full-time
EMPLOYEE STATUS: Regular
ABOUT THE CLIENT:
The firm is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Their global reach ensures that they can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. They strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to their clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Their clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.
DESCRIPTION:
1. The Firm is looking to recruit an Associate or Senior Associate to their Finance, Projects & Restructuring team in Johannesburg.
2. Giving you the widest platform to progress, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to advise on various types of local and cross border financing transactions, including secured lending, project financing, syndicated lending, corporate and structured financing and restructuring.
3. The role will be based in their Johannesburg office, but will involve working on a broad range of transactions on a national and pan-African basis as well as working with the firm offices worldwide. The role may also require travel to their other offices from time to time.
4. They have the international reach and innovative mind-set to represent a broad range of clients and advise them on high profile and pathfinding transactions.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This is an opportunity to join a highly successful and growing team, and to play a key strategic role future development. The successful candidate will enjoy a uniquely dynamic range of work that will cover their core services including:
1. Work on a diverse portfolio of complex and high value cases
2. Act for both lenders and borrowers
3. Contribute to the delivery of the highest technical standards of client service
4. Work closely with the other members of the team on the execution of key mandates
5. Assume responsibility for the running of lower value cases
6. Conducting major research, depending on client needs; and
7. Have excellent prospects for personal career development and advancement.
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Candidates who have between 3 and 6 years PQE are likely to have the right level of knowledge and have gained the right level of experience needed to be able to undertake this role. Candidates are expected to have:
1. Strong Finance, Projects & Restructuring experience gained in an international or leading national firm is preferable
2. An international awareness and focus
3. A commitment to technical excellence
4. The ability to work co-operatively and collaboratively in a team, sharing information and knowledge
5. The ability to provide professional, quality service, executed in a timely manner and to respond effectively to requests from internal and external clients
6. Commercial awareness and understanding of current key legal and business issues
7. Experience of business development initiatives and the ability to identify ways to contribute collaboratively to the development of the team’s relationships with clients
8. A desire to develop an effective network of internal and external contacts; and
9. Strong personal motivation, and a desire to manage and develop their own career path
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