General Banking Associate
General Banking Associate
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Job Description
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Job Title
General Banking Associate
Department
Banking & Loan Finance
Office Location
London
Reports To
General Banking Partners
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 officeplease 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 our 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 over 40 offices in the Americas Asia-Pacific Europe the Middle East and Africa.
With a presence in the worlds major financial and commercial markets we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented 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 General Banking team advises on a broad mix of financing transactions for a diverse range of clients both lender side and borrower side (including banks corporates governments multilateral and national development financial institutions high net worth individuals commodity traders and factoring houses). Our work is mostly international and cross-border with the majority of our clients located overseas. Our work includes general lending hotel financing receivables financing trade and commodities financing guarantee programmes risk distribution arrangements margin lending bank template projects financial institution lending sovereign lending in each case either in a transactional or advisory context.
The team is headed by three partners Katie Gill David Leggott and Andrew Taylor supported by a team of dedicated banking associates. The team also works regularly with other teams in London and in Hogan Lovells international offices.
Katie Gill:
Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Technical Ability
- Understanding of legal principles of own practice area.
- Has project management responsibility ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards
- Stays aware of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
Client Focus
- Has good working relationships with clients
- Has a good understanding of client the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
Team Work and Interpersonal Skills
- Acts as a source of advice to others sharing knowledge and expertise
- Has strong relationships and profile amongst senior colleagues
- Ability to work effectively with others.
Firm Mindedness
- Understands the industry and market in which the practice stream and clients operate
- 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 are looking for an English qualified solicitor with two years post qualification experience in a law firm as a banking lawyer acting for both lenders and borrowers (whether or not in a general banking practice or other finance specialisms like project finance acquisition finance real estate finance trade and commodity finance export finance). The candidate must be familiar with drafting and negotiating loan agreements (whether bilateral or syndicated including on LMA forms) guarantees security agreements and other forms of credit support. Knowledge of risk sharing arrangements like sub-participations would be helpful as would experience in factoring and supply chain finance.
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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Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
