Banking Lawyer

**BANKING LAWYER - 1-3 YEARS’ PQE - BELFAST** **About the Firm** Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 25 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understandingof the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporateand M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technologyand tax advice. We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, whichoffers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work. We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusionconsultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology. **Awards** Pinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, won the "Law Firm of the Year Award 2019 - Legal Business" for the second time and won ‘Europe’s Most Innovative Law at the Financial Times Innovative LawyerAwards Europe 2020.Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer and is ranked No 4 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2020 and named Stonewall’s Top Global Employers 2020. **Brief** We are currently looking to recruit a Banking Lawyer with 1-3 years’ PQE into our Belfast Banking Team. **Background** We advise a broad range of lenders and borrowers on a wide variety of financing transactions.We act for all the UK clearing banks and a growing number of other European and investment banks and debt funds on all types of facilities including acquisitionfinance, real estate finance, structured finance and debt capital markets.We also act for many borrowers, from listed companies to small enterprises, on their financings.Our practice is broad and very varied. We deliver a high-quality legal service from an international banking and finance team with access to a deep knowledge of current market practice.We deliver a truly partner led service and strongly believe in being fully joined up across our network ofoffices. Our talented team of lawyers has an insight and appreciation of the needs and pressures of clients in the financial services sector.We are renowned for the quality and speed of delivery of our advice, our innovative thinking and our grasp of commercialissues. Independent commentators on the legal profession rate our group's abilities across the range of specialist banking areas in which we advise and describe us as "impressive and prized by the high-profile banking clients" for whom we act. **What will we offer you?** - We are a market leading, dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients. - We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, monthly 121s, career discussions and biannual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assistyou to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver "best of breed" services. - Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships. **_Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Karen Rawlings who can discuss the role and requirements._** **_Contact details: _** LI-LRAJ