The Department
The Asset, Trade, and Energy Finance (ATEF) group covers a range of areas of specialised finance, including asset finance (particularly with respect to aviation finance), trade and commodity finance, asset-based lending, project finance, and export finance.
The Trade and Commodity Finance team within ATEF enjoys demand from clients looking for expertise in complex commodity, trade, receivables, export, and structured financings, and is highly ranked in both the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories.
Their portfolio of clients includes major UK and international banks, trading houses, specialist funds, and high-profile borrowers.
The market-leading Asset-Based Lending practice complements the Trade and Commodity Finance practice and the firm's wider Banking & Finance practice. They are one of only a few firms in the City to have a credible specialist ABL team. Their ABL client base spans the full spectrum of the market, ranging from UK clearing banks and major overseas financial institutions to independent asset-based lenders and funds. As a result, the team is regularly engaged in advising on a wide variety of transactions, including syndicated ABL facilities, sponsor-backed deals, non-recourse receivables purchase facilities, supply chain finance, and borrowing base facilities. The team also regularly advises on hybrid deals that combine ABL facilities with other types of finance (such as unitranche facilities or high-yield bonds) in the capital structure and involve complex inter-creditor arrangements.
The Role
The firm now has an opportunity for an ambitious Associate to join ATEF and support both the Trade and Commodity Finance and Asset-Based Lending teams. The successful candidate will advise on a variety of structured commodity finance transactions, asset-based lending structures, receivables finance, and supply-chain finance deals as well as transactions involving the use of trade finance instruments within a supportive and friendly team environment. Maximising their global presence and local expertise, you will connect with colleagues throughout the firm globally and manage international transactions to meet clients' needs.
Required experience, skills, and attributes
- Experience with a variety of structured commodity finance structures such as borrowing base facilities, pre-export financings and pre-payment/advance payment transactions, and receivables-based financing structures.
- Experience in receivables financing and asset-based lending facilities.
- You will ideally have experience of working with international clients.
- Evidence to support keen interest in business development.
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