Restructuring Associate, 1 - 4 PQE

Addleshaw Goddard, City of Westminster

Restructuring Associate, 1 - 4 PQE

Salary Not Specified

Addleshaw Goddard, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 13 Dec | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 3edcea9286ff4d7c89fb8ef6325aec8c

Full Job Description

  • With a particular focus on financial restructurings involving a number of jurisdictions and different stakeholders in a capital structure, you will be expected to provide pragmatic, commercial and innovative advice.
  • You will advise financial institutions (including banks and debt funds), bondholders, insolvency practitioners, large corporates, directors, private equity sponsors and other stakeholders on a wide range of restructuring and insolvency-related matters across a broad variety of sectors., You will be involved in reviewing finance documentation and analysing potential restructuring scenarios to protect or enhance our clients' positions.
  • You would work with other members of the firm across different departments and offices in the UK and internationally to devise, draft and complete restructuring and insolvency transactions in an efficient and effective manner.
  • You will be involved in primarily non-contentious insolvency mandates.
  • Work closely with our leveraged finance team to help ensure early engagement and maximise the prospect of a successful restructure.
  • Be involved in a variety of business development activities.

    You are a qualified lawyer with at least 1year of PQE in a reputable Restructuring practice.
  • You have experience of working on cross-border restructurings.
  • You want to have an identity in a market-leading firm with credibility and gravitas, and international collaboration.
  • You enjoy being client-facing and have enthusiasm for intellectually challenging work, are ambitious and confident to deliver at the highest standard.
  • Have a commercial flair and acumen and are excited by growth and new ideas.
  • Are details focussed, self-motivated and proactive, and confident in building enduring relationships with clients that are based on trust and high-quality service delivery.
  • You have an eye for detail but are also commercially aware of client drivers and the need to grow a legal business each day in everything you do well.

    With established Restructuring teams across the UK, the national team has 13 Partners and more than 35 specialist restructuring and insolvency lawyers. Our Restructuring team members have been nominated for and/or won awards over the years for a wide variety of financing and restructuring assignments.
  • Our integrated team is comprised of a variety of talented professionals some of whom have successfully worked at the Firm for many years while others have worked at Magic Circle and leading US firms previously.
  • We act for a diverse client base, generating work from external financial institutional clients and advisers, and from our national and international practice groups and their corporate clients. These clients are driving our need for high calibre restructuring lawyers who can bring flair and imagination to challenging circumstances faced by these clients, whether in commercial banking, Leverage Finance, Capital Markets or in particular sectors of the economy facing financial challenges or change.
  • We want successful candidates like you to join an ambitious but friendly team to continue to drive the productivity and profitability of our firm as it continues its international growth and reach. The work can be demanding but is rewarding for those who can display a commitment to our business expansion., Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.
  • We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets. Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

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