Mid-Level Derivatives and Structured Products Associate (Strategic Equities Focus)

The role

Job Overview

Whilst being a part of the wider transactional derivatives and structured products team the candidate will focus on Strategic Equities transactions. The firm advises across the full range of strategic equity solutions including stake building financing hedging and disposal strategies. The formats of these transactions include derivatives stock loans margin loans and ECM strategies.

We are looking for a candidate with experience of this area who is able to assist our clients in the structuring documentation and execution of their transactions.

Who you will work with

Our Derivatives and Structured Products group is an acknowledged market leader. Our work reflects the dynamism and volatility of todays financial markets where competitive edge is built on innovation foresight and speed of delivery.

Our Derivatives and Structured Products group in London is made up of 11 Partners and 34 Lawyers and 7 trainees.

A smaller team led by 2 partners focuses on Strategic Equities work.   

What you will be responsible for

The majority of our Strategic Equities work is international high profile and time sensitive. You can expect to have direct client contact with our market leading and highly experienced clients. You will also collaborate extensively with other practice areas and offices across the firm.

What you will do

We work with the worlds leading financial institutions and financial investor/fund clients. The innovation and legal creativity which we bring to new financial products and financial market strategies is fundamental to the outcome of our clients businesses.

Our market-leading experience attracts the most complex challenging and ground-breaking deals to the firm. This in turn has enabled us to attract some of the best and most ambitious lawyers to assist our clients and build one of the markets leading and most diverse practices.

Qualifications :

Your experience

We are interested to hear from outstanding mid-level lawyers who already have experience with Strategic Equities in addition to a solid grounding in other transactional derivatives and structured products. You will have a working knowledge of ISDA GMRA GMSLA and LMA based products and a firm grasp of English law security legal principles and practice as well as an ability to review and interrogate foreign law security arrangements. Experience with legal opinions around these topics would be an advantage.

Beyond Strategic Equities you will also have the chance to work on OTC fixed income credit and equity based derivatives asset backed securities repackaging programmes collateral documentation and structures repos stock loans credit and equity-linked notes synthetic securitisations and insurance linked securities.

We welcome candidates from either similarly high profile private practice or with relevant legal in-house experience. We are very open to candidates from or with experience gained in other leading financial centres outside London.

Additional Information :

Awards and Accolades

The group has been consistently ranked highly in Chambers UK for Financial Services: UK-wide & Legal 500 Financial Services categories. Some of our recent awards and rankings include:

Band 1: Derivatives and Structured Products

Legal 500 UK 2025

Winner: Team of the year: Structured finance and securitisation
IFLR Europe Awards 2023 and 2020

Winner: Global Law Firm of the Year - Overall

GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2023 and 2021

Winner : Global Law Firm of the Year

Risk Awards 2024

Winner: European Law Firm of the Year

GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2025 embargoed until 11 Sep 2020

SRT Law Firm of the Year

GlobalCapital European Securitisation Awards 2025

Law Firm of the Year

SCI Capital Relief Trades Awardsand 2019

How we will support you

From your first day with us you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.

Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender gender identity and expression marital or civil partnership status race colour national or ethnic origin social or economic background disability religious belief sexual orientation or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection terms and conditions of employment including pay promotion training transfer and every other aspect of employment.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. Find out more here.

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