Speculative Role: Banking Lawyer found on Burges Salmon
Bristol
About the Job
This year has seen significant growth for our Banking team. Katie Allen was promoted to Partner and we have welcomed a number of new Lawyers including Partner, Stuart McMillan, based in Edinburgh.
Due to the team’s success over the last 12 months we have scope to grow and therefore would like to speak with individuals on a speculative basis.
Here’s an insight into the Banking Team
At Burges Salmon, we are a collaborative, sociable environment where you will gain professional development with a structured path to advancing your career, supported by the Banking leadership team to enhance your skills and experience.
- Investors in People Gold Standard
Our Banking team offer a full complement of banking and finance legal services, which includes advising borrowers, lenders and sponsors on a variety of debt (and debt-related) transactions. These transactions vary in size from £1 million to £1 billion; our core market is debt of £20 million to £200 million.
Our banking lawyers work collaboratively with colleagues across the firm including corporate, real estate and tax, acting for banks, building societies, debt and pension funds and other financial institutions, alongside numerous PLCs and large corporate clients around the world. Including:
HSBC // Metlife // Lloyds Banking Group // National Express Group // Beechbrook Capital LLP // DRC // Natwest // Santander // National Australia Bank // Investec // Gravis Capital Partners
While the team is based in Bristol and Edinburgh, most of our work originates in London and the wider UK. For cross-border matters, we work closely with our preferred firm international network.
- Banking
- Burges Salmon advises National Express on ground-breaking deal
- Burges Salmon advises financial sponsor of Eden’s ground-breaking geothermal project
What others say...
'Provides magic circle professionalism and service without the stuffiness or fee structure - definitely a trusted business partner.' Chambers UK
Work
The Banking team work in partnership with their clients and we form our thinking around their needs to ensure we deliver the right solutions when it matters. Our key areas of expertise are:
- Real Estate Finance (including offices, hotels, student accommodation, care homes and housing)
- Energy and Infrastructure Finance
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Corporate and Leveraged Debt
- Asset finance, asset backed lending and securitisations
- B2B, Peer to Peer and private banking
- Derivatives
Requirements
We are interested in speaking with qualified Lawyers who have strong, recent and relevant work experience focused on banking and financial transactions. You will be keen to continue your professional development, coupled with strong commercial acumen.
We are committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working patterns.
Get in touch!
If you would like to have an informal, confidential conversation to find out more, please call Victoria Lewton in our Resourcing team on 0117 307 6942 or you are welcome to submit your details by clicking apply.