Lawyer / Senior Paralegal - Investment Banking

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.