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Job Title
Structured Finance Paralegal
Department
Debt Capital Markets
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, deep industry knowledge, and 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 world's 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
Hogan Lovells' debt capital markets practice offers expert advice on a full range of debt capital markets, structured finance, and fund finance transactions, ranging from corporate, high yield, and sovereign bonds to securitisations (covering various asset classes and structures) to derivatives and structured products. It operates as an integrated part of the firm's global international debt capital markets and structured finance team. The clients that this team represents include issuers, lenders, sponsors, borrowers, managers and arrangers, derivatives counterparties (sell and buy side), trustees and depositaries of debt, equity, equity linked and other instruments and originators of securitised assets as well as investors in such instruments. Hogan Lovells has advised clients on these products for many years, including advising on Eurobonds since that market's inception in the 1960s, on its first securitisation as early as 1984, and on high yield bonds when they were first introduced from the US in the early 1990s. The team focuses on the complex 'high added value' end of the capital markets. In the last few years, it has achieved a market-leading position in a number of areas.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
The paralegal's main duty is to support the structured finance and securitisation team on a wide range of transactions, although the role will also provide support to other teams as needed, for example, fund finance. Duties will include:
Supporting the production of documentation based on precedent forms
Assisting with signings and undertaking post-completion tasks
Assisting with the drafting of condition precedent documents
Researching information using paper and computerised resources
General administration, including proofreading, filing, and photocopying
Assisting with queries from fee earners
Developing effective working relationships with members of the department and other support and legal departments
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
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
High level of IT literacy
MS Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint experience
Excellent research skills
Knowledge of finance transactions
Law degree or equivalent
Desired
Prior knowledge of structured finance transactions
Prior knowledge of fund structures
General Attributes
Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
Ability to prioritise and manage tasks effectively
Strong presentation skills with excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively to all levels of staff, including lawyers, PAs, and business services, is required. This applies to all forms of communication: telephone; written; and face-to-face
Excellent team worker
High level of attention to detail
Able to work under pressure to deadlines
Professional, efficient, and business-like manner
Proactive and shows initiative
Flexible and willing to take on new and challenging tasks
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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