Trade Finance Lawyer
Our client is a global financial services organisation who provides specialist corporate and investment banking services to an international client base. This business has a strong and growing presence throughout Europe having and continues to harness a consistent and stable flow of deals – so it is a great time to join them.
As a result of this strong performance, the EMEA legal team is now looking for an experienced Trade Finance Lawyer to join their Corporate Lending Legal team at Director level.
What will the role involve:
- Drafting, reviewing and advising on a broad range of complex finance documentation (BAFT, LMA etc.) with a particular focus on trade finance documentation;
- Supporting and advising on the structuring and execution of such bespoke and complex transactions in accordance with internal requirements and policies and external regulations;
- Liaise and build relationships quickly with internal stakeholders, and the front office/trade bankers, and assist them with structuring credit deals;
- Being a problem-solver, and offer solutions;
What skill-sets are we looking for?
- You must be a trade finance specialist, and be able to hit the ground running in this area;
- And within trade finance, you must be a generalist across trade spanning a variety of different areas of trade;
- You must have global and cross-border experience;
- Exact PQE is not important, as long as you have demonstrable experience in trade finance, with breadth and depth to your experience;
- Someone who is adept at, and sensitive to, working with different cultures.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a lawyer who is looking to work in the trade finance space within an established, successful and stable bank that is very reputable in this area.
This team enjoys a flexible and generous hybrid working policy and a healthy work-life balance.
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