Investment Funds Associate / Senior Associate

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Job Title

Associate / Senior Associate

Office Location

London

Reports To

Group Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of practice on deep industry knowledge and on our one team global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms Hogan Lovells has around 2500 lawyers on six continents.

With a presence in the worlds major financial and commercial markets we are well placed to provide excellent businessoriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

The Investment Funds group advises on all aspects of investment funds and pooled investment from the initial structuring of a vehicle to the legal regulatory and tax aspects of establishing a fund and then on an ongoing basis advising in relation to its operation and promotion.

The group has a track record and expertise across a range of investment products but is best known for its work on alternative investment funds.

Work includes both onshore and offshore funds and both open and closed ended funds. We regularly work on the establishment of funds in the UK Luxembourg the Cayman Islands and the Channel Islands as well as other key jurisdictions such as the US Ireland and (for African funds) Mauritius. We operate across asset classes with a particular emphasis on real estate funds infrastructure funds renewable energy funds and private equity funds.

The practice is well balanced between work on private funds and listed funds with the majority of our work acting for GP/sponsors of those funds. On the listed fund side we have a balanced issuer and bank side practice and are one of the top two or three firms in the market for highend transactions.

We also have a vibrant practice advising key institutional investors on their investments into the full range of private alternative investment funds which provides a great insight into the current market terms. We also have a highlyregarded and rapidly growing secondaries practice working closely with our private equity team on the funds aspects of both GPled and LP portfolio secondaries transactions.

In addition to traditional real estate funds the team is also widely recognised for advising on high value real estate transactions and investment and development joint ventures that typically involve fund or fundlike structures.

Lawyers in the team can expect to interact on a regular basis with fund formation colleagues outside London (e.g. the US Luxembourg and Singapore).

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Technical Ability

• Possesses good working knowledge and understanding of the legal principles associated with the scope of work outlined above; proactively develops this knowledge further.
• Shows awareness of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
• Ability to lead transactions as appropriate and depending on their complexity reporting directly to the supervising partner.

Team Work and Interpersonal Skills

• Motivated reliable and flexible.
• Resilient and able to perform effectively under pressure with good time management skills (eg meets deadlines and responds to requests in a highly timely manner).
• Good attention to detail and focus on accuracy.
• Has an appreciation of when to seek advice and guidance.
• Strong project management and organisational skills ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Takes responsibility for project issues (i.e. owns the problem seeks to understand assigned tasks follows through)
• Strong interpersonal skills (internal and client facing) both written and oral.
• Ability to work effectively with others in a team.
• Acts as a source of advice to others sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrates financial awareness attention to budgets and costs and timely completion of time recording.
• Uses appropriate level of effort for the task (e.g. performs the appropriate amount of research based on partner and matter needs); works cost effectively to provide value to meet clients needs
• Takes ownership for own career development proactive in soliciting performance feedback and addressing skills gaps.

Client Focus

• Understands the industry and market in which the clients operate.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness aware of clients commercial drivers and own role in achieving clients business goals.
• Has good working relationships with clients appropriate to the level of experience.
• Has a good understanding of clients the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.

Firm Mindedness

• Takes an active role in managing the firms reputation both in and out of work
• Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.
• Understands the value of a diverse workforce

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

We have an opening for a first rate Investment Funds lawyer. Experience gained within a top tier firm is preferred. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will have between two to seven years post qualification experience (or equivalent experience) and is seeking a broader range of both private and listed funds work with a strong international aspect and a supportive and friendly working atmosphere. Familiarity with the current market standard terms for private funds would be an advantage.

In return Hogan Lovells offers excellent training and development a superb working environment together with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin religion sex gender and gender identity age sexual orientation marital and civil partnership status pregnancy or disability.

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