High Yield Associate

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Weil seeks the best and brightest talent to join our Legal and Business services teams. Our employees are the future of Weil and we invest in their training and development. Our environment embraces and encourages positive-minded professionals who seek to be challenged and acquire knowledge and skills in an atmosphere built on teamwork. Highly skilled and knowledgeable Business Services professionals assist our lawyers in successfully meeting and exceeding client needs and are vital to the overall success of the Firm.

Job Description

Position: High Yield Associate

Reporting to: Partner

Based at: Stonecutter Court 1 Stonecutter Street London EC4A 4TR

The Firm

Weil Gotshal & Manges is a leading international law firm which acts for many of the most successful companies and institutions in the world in their high-stake matters and transactions. Headquartered in New York we have offices throughout the U.S Europe and Asia. The London office established in 1996 has grown to become our second largest and the hub of our European practice.

The Role

We are looking for a talented and motivated U.S.-qualified lawyer to join our highly regarded High Yield team in London. This is an exceptional opportunity to work on some of the most complex and innovative high-yield and leveraged finance transactions in the market.

Youll be part of a high-performing collegial team that values development collaboration and excellence. This is a chance to build your career within a market-leading High Yield practice while working on truly international and transformative transactions.

The Team

Our High Yield group sits at the heart of our integrated leveraged finance practice bringing together English and New York law capability to deliver seamless advice across the full range of leveraged finance and capital markets products.

You will be joining a collaborative team of 2 partners 2 counsel 6 associates and 3 paralegals collaborating closely with colleagues across finance restructuring and capital solutions. Our practice advises sponsors corporates investment banks and alternative capital providers on:

Rule 144A/Reg S offerings
SECregistered and private highyield issuances
European/U.S. crossborder financings
Bank/bond structures TLB secondlien unitranche senior/mezzanine and private highyield transactions
Liability management and restructuring mandates

Responsibilities

Work on highyield bond offerings and committed financing transactions
Support U.S. U.K. and European equity offerings
Advise on complex liability management and restructuring transactions
Draft key transaction documents
Coordinate with global deal teams across multiple jurisdictions

Specific skills/experience required

A U.S.-qualified lawyer (either a J.D. or LL.M. degree) ideally with at least 1 year of post-qualification experience in US or Europe advising on capital markets finance or M&A matters
Admitted to the NY bar (or sitting the exam in July 2026)
Academically strong with excellent analytical skills
Fluent in French or Italian
Technically capable commercially minded and comfortable managing a dynamic workload
A strong communicator and natural team player
Robust unflappable diligent and ability to work well independently and under pressure and strict deadlines
Experience working as part of lean deal teams
Strong drafting and legal research capabilities
Excellent problem solving and decision-making abilities
Entrepreneurial pro-active and highly ambitious
Trustworthy confident and high emotional intelligence

Weil offers a competitive compensation package which comprises of base salary and discretionary year-end bonus (for eligible employees). Benefits include but are not limited to Contributory Pension Scheme Life Assurance (4 x annual salary) Income Protection Scheme Private Medical Insurance GP Service 25 days holiday Subsidised Staff Restaurant Health Screening Annual Well Being Allowance On-site Gym Employee Assistance Programme and Season Ticket Loan.

Weil is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to encouraging inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. It is our policy to attract train compensate and develop based on merit and without regard to gender race social or economic background disability religion or belief sexual orientation marital or civil partnership status age or any other category protected by applicable law. You can find out more about inclusion at Weilhere.

At Weil we strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. Should you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support at any stage of the recruitment process please do not hesitate to contact a member of Weils recruitment team at .

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Weil seeks the best and brightest talent to join our Legal and Business services teams. Our employees are the future of Weil and we invest in their training and development. Our environment embraces and encourages positive-minded professionals who seek to be challenged and acquire knowledge and skil...