Lawyer / Senior Paralegal – Investment Banking
* £450 - 525 per day Inside IR35
* London Based 2-3 Days a week
* Initial 6 month contact
This role is to work on a contract basis for a large Investmant Bank working within their Structured Securities. This team work on high volumes of Securities Issuance Documentation for stocks and bonds.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drafting securities issuance documentation cross asset classes
* Maintaining meticulous records and carefully following defined processes.
* Advising the business with respect to structured securities issuances, legal aspects of structuring and distribution activities.
* Negotiating distribution agreements
* Procuring and analysing cross-border legal advice from external law firms in order to provide appropriate legal advice to business teams.
* Liaising with external counsel in order to outsource where appropriate, and managing the output of external firms through eh project or transaction lifecycle.
* Working collaboratively with other team members to manage workload.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Qualified English lawyer (or a lawyer qualified in another equivalent jurisdiction) with at least 1 year of experience of investment banking/global markets, gained either in house or at a law firm.
* An outgoing and robust personality who is capable of working both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a cross-disciplinary team/department
* Clear, concise and effective communicator (both written and oral)
* Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise work
* This role requires a high degree of organisation and planning skills together, numeracy, attention to detail, logical thinking and teamwork
* An existing knowledge of structured securities and repackaging transactions is desired.