Project Finance [Senior Associate] [Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Manchester]
POSTED BY: Precisehire Associates
REF:PHA 253
Date Published:Thursday, December 9, 2021
Date of Expiration:Tuesday, June 7, 2022 EXPIRED
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LOCATION: Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Manchester.
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. This is an opportunity for an Associate to join their Energy, Infrastructure and Projects practice specialising in project finance and have a real impact by working alongside their global team to deliver exceptional and innovative results to their clients.
2. Sitting in their Finance, Projects and Restructuring practice group, the project finance team advise lenders (including banks, institutional investors, non-bank lenders, national and multilateral agencies and development finance institutions), sponsors (including industrial sponsors and financial investors) and other project parties on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects across the world. Wherever the project is located, transactions are typically cross border in nature and as part of the team you will be working closely with colleagues in other jurisdictions.
3. The firm understands that you're building a future and they are committed to supporting you reach the full potential of your own personal career ambitions. They can offer an interesting, innovative and exciting opportunity to the candidate with the right skillset and a passion for the energy and infrastructure sectors.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPOSNIBILITIES
By joining a global leader in the energy and natural resources sector and one of the largest teams of dedicated finance lawyers, you will receive support from Partners and Legal Directors devoted to developing and achieving your goals. Candidates will enjoy a uniquely dynamic range of international work across a variety of energy and infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
1. representing lenders and sponsors in all financing elements relating to the development, construction, operation, acquisition and sale of energy and infrastructure projects
2. drafting, reviewing and negotiating finance documents on project finance transactions, including security documents, direct agreements, legal opinions, corporate approval and other ancillary documents, and (depending on experience) intercreditor, hedging and loan facility documents
3. co-ordinating conditions precedent (CPs) on complex project finance transactions, including using CP management software platforms
4. managing signing and financial close process, remotely and at physical signing meetings
5. liaising with the firm colleagues in overseas jurisdictions and other overseas counsel, other the firm specialists and technical, insurance, financial and other professional advisers acting on a project
6. supporting lender and sponsor clients on on-going and post completion matters, including consent and waiver requests and amendments to finance documents
7. supervising the involvement of trainee solicitors on a transaction, for example with drafting and reviewing ancillary documents, managing CPs, attending to security registrations and other post completion formalities
8. supporting knowledge management by drafting precedent documents and other knowhow materials
9. involvement in business development activities, including networking events and supporting the production of pitch documents
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Candidates who have between 0 and 3 years' PQE are likely to have the right level of knowledge and have gained the right level of experience needed to be able to successfully undertake this role.
The role would ideally suit someone who either has experience of project finance work or a more general finance law background and a keen interest in the energy and/or infrastructure sectors.
The ideal candidate will:
1. Be a Solicitor, Barrister or equivalent in other jurisdictions
2. Have strong technical skills in project finance work, or in general finance work with an interest in project finance
3. Have an interest in the energy or infrastructure sectors
4. Experience of multi-jurisdictional transactions would be preferable but is not essential. An interest in cross-border work is, however, a must
5. Be able to handle multiple priorities, working to sometimes conflicting timescales in a fast-paced and challenging environment
6. Have a commercial and solutions oriented mindset that applies strong technical knowledge to produce innovative solutions to achieve clients’ objectives
7. Be able to build trust and rapport to develop effective relationships, internally and externally
8. Be keen to get involved in business development
9. Comply with professional standards and all relevant regulatory obligations
10. Comply with the firm's systems, policies and procedures in all matters, including compliance, financial systems and time recording
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