Professional Support Lawyer

Professional Support Lawyer – Banking & Finance 

The Team

Our Banking & Finance team offers comprehensive legal services to a diverse range of clients across borrowers/sponsors and lenders. These transactions vary in size from £1 Million to £1 Billion across sectors like energy, infrastructure, transport, tech and real estate. Our expertise spans acquisition finance, project finance, real estate finance, structured finance (including securitisation structures) and asset-based lending.

While the team is based in Bristol and Edinburgh, most of our work originates in London and the wider UK. For cross-border matters, we work closely with our preferred firm international network.

Key clients include:

HSBC, Metlife, Lloyds Banking Group, Tristan Capital, Blackrock, FirstGroup and Puma Capital Group.

Want to read more about the team, the clients and learn about recent matters? Click here.

Work

As a Professional Support Lawyer, you will be an integral part of the Banking & Finance team. Supporting the development of those in the team and ensuring technical excellence. Here are some examples of the typical responsibilities in this role:

• Developing and coordinating a comprehensive training program.
• Identifying and addressing knowledge and skills gaps within the team.
• Delivering and managing training sessions.
• Curating and managing the team's knowledge.
• Conducting legal research to stay updated on banking and finance developments.
• Overseeing the team's precedent suite and document automation platforms.
• Promoting best practices across the team.
• Engaging with other PSLs both internally and externally.
• Sharing your knowledge and educating team members on relevant aspects.
• Facilitating knowledge sharing within the team and across the firm.
• Assisting banking & finance partners and team in implementing the unit's business strategy.
• Collaborating with marketing, innovation and transformation teams on specific initiatives.

You will also become involved not only in team projects but also firmwide projects and initiatives to support the firm-wide knowledge management, business and sector needs.

What you'll need

• Relevant experience working on Banking & Finance matters
• Experience of PSL type tasks
• Qualified Banking & Finance Lawyer registered with the SRA or Law Society of Scotland.

It is not a requirement to have pre-existing PSL/ knowledge development experience, the team are open to meeting with individuals who have applicable transferable skills.

Benefits

Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package.

We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 07974 402 571 for an informal and confidential conversation.