Banking Solicitor

1 week ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Weightmans Full time

About Your New Role

Our national Corporate team provides a comprehensive range of legal services, with a particular focus on corporate transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, and trade sales and disposals. We also handle company formations, re-organisations and re-structuring, joint ventures, shareholders agreements and investment agreements and offer advice on general company law compliance and corporate governance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assisting partners and other fee earners with, and managing own caseload of, banking, real estate and funds finance transactions, including acting for a broad range of lenders, borrowers and fund managers;
  • Drafting, negotiating and agreeing loan agreements, intercreditor deeds, security documents and other ancillary documents based both on lender standard form documents and Loan Market Association documents;
  • Project management of banking and real estate finance transactions and the associated team;
  • Lead adviser liaising directly with clients and negotiating with solicitors acting for the borrower;
  • Responsible for ensuring all conditions precedent on banking and real estate finance transactions are satisfied prior to completion;
  • Assisting on fund structures, including limited partnership agreements, companies limited by guarantee and other structures;
  • Assisting on public sector finance agreements and arrangements and supporting on Subsidy Law matters;
  • Dealing with post completion matters and registrations;
  • Responsible for preparing weekly reports to the client with updates on ongoing matters;
  • Manage matters in accordance with client SLAs;
  • Work in accordance with Weightmans' values and procedures;
  • Achieve set financial and chargeable time targets;
  • Comply with Data Protection compliance and procedures;
  • Complete Client MI procedures/databases as and when required.

About You

  • Experience in banking, corporate finance or real estate finance work is essential;
  • Familiarity with and genuine interest in the banking, corporate and real estate sectors;
  • Excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills;
  • Methodical, organised approach;
  • Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative;
  • High level of commercial awareness with strong attention to detail and good drafting skills;
  • Conscientious, self-motivated, hard-working, responsive, with critical thinking abilities;
  • Ability to work to strict deadlines, tight timetables, targets and client protocols while maintaining high standards in terms of accuracy and quality;
  • Willingness to learn new areas of finance, including public sector and funds finance.

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