Bristol: Banking (Associate) Solicitor: 1-4PQE £63-69,000 DOE.
We are newly recruiting for an Associate to join our client's Banking team in Bristol. This role would best suit a qualified lawyer between 1-4 years' PQE, looking for a flexible working role with great quality work, team collaboration, and opportunities for progression.
Our client's Banking team provides expert and commercial advice in all areas of general corporate lending (including acquisition finance), real estate finance, and renewables finance.
Your Role:
As a key addition to our client's Bristol team, as an Associate, you can expect to be involved with:
- Managing your own caseload for a variety of clients and supporting Partners with larger transactions
- Providing an excellent service to their clients through close collaboration with colleagues from across the UK in both the Banking team and other specialisms
- Participating in business development opportunities to strengthen relationships with their clients.
Your Skills & Experience:
- A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered) with 1+ year PQE, with a background in real estate finance or corporate banking
- A forward thinker with excellent analytical, communication, and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
- Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development, and an appetite for keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in your practise area and sector focus
- Able to understand your client's business needs and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
- An ambitious and enthusiastic team player, able to support senior fee earners and contribute to our client's collaborative culture.
Your Team:
Operating from offices across the UK, our client's expanding and ambitious partner-led team provides tactical, commercially minded services across all aspects of financing. They act for a broad range of debt funders and have positions on the general lending panels of nearly all the high street lenders. In addition, they act for a wide spectrum of corporate borrowers in all their key sectors in the investment and non-investment grade spaces.
They provide clear commercial advice on all areas of restructuring and insolvency law. With broad and deep expertise in restructuring and insolvency, and specialisation in the acquisition and disposal of debt portfolios, they act for everyone from corporates and their boards to banks and government agencies. From large restructuring, workouts, and formal insolvencies to acting for individual creditors and assisting stakeholders, they're ready when clients need them.
About our client:
Fast paced, fast growing, and forward thinking, our client is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and they do the same for their people.
They work with high-profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national, and international reach, they have over 1,400 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India, and the US. Their purpose is to protect, prepare, and progress their clients for what comes next, and it's essential that they do the same for their people, their planet, and their communities too. In their open and collaborative culture, they encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice, and to contribute.
Our Benefits:
Our client values their employees highly, and they want you to feel valued. You'll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via their flexible benefits scheme, including 25 days' holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At our client, they have a progressive fully flexible working approach. They empower their people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients, and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of their people. They're happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
LHH is an employment consultancy that believes in talent, not labels. It is important to us that we run inclusive recruitment processes to support candidates of all abilities and encourage applicants of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. LHH is committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment to enable candidates to explore the next steps in their careers. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.