Finance Managing Associate or Counsel, 5PQE+, Housing & Transition Finance, Leeds or London

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As part of our continued significant growth, we are looking to recruit strong finance lawyers, at all levels, who can support our Housing and Transition Finance Group.

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE ROLE

• Advising on the financing of almost every complex social housing finance transaction in the UK (placing us at the heart of solving the UK’s housing challenge);
• Significant education and healthcare financings (broadening our social finance practice);
• Emerging market impact finance transactions, often combining debt and equity hybrid across the globe; to pan‑EMEA transition finance work in our very busy transition finance practice led by Tomas Gardfors across the following asset classes:
  • digital infrastructure and data centres
  • renewables
  • clean(er) energy
  • large‑scale real estate retrofit
  • industrial platforms and decarbonisation
  • circular economy assets
  • natural capital
  • sustainable and synthetic fuel sources
  • agri‑tech and climate‑resilient food systems
  • water security infrastructure
  • flood defence and coastal resilience systems
• You will have the opportunity to get involved in each of these transactions.
• In addition to the underlying finance transactions, our Housing and Transition Finance Group also supports many finance clients on their wholesale financing, product development and government/regulatory engagement in relation to policy shifts across these areas.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Entrepreneurial and self‑starting, confident with clients, collaborative across transactions, proactive in driving deals forward and market‑facing with a hunger to develop your own network.
• Understanding of the underlying fundamentals of a transaction, familiar with LMA, confident in bespoke drafting and lawyering.