Debt Capital Markets Lawyer

Job Description

We are actively seeking a Debt Capital Markets Lawyer for a leading global investment bank. This is a full-time, 12-month secondment opportunity in Canary Wharf.

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for FTSE 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

We are actively seeking a Debt Capital Markets lawyer in London with the following qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of legal experience focused on financial services transactions.
• Substantive experience in debt or equity capital markets required.
• Experience in the financial services industry required.
• Excellent communication and advisory skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Ability to thrive in fast paced innovative environment requiring need to pivot quickly in response to changing workflows or deadlines.
• Ability to work onsite in Canary Wharf full or part-time.
• Law degree from an accredited institution.
• Qualified solicitor in England.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our corporate client on the following:

• Partner with and counsel debt capital markets business on DCM transactions, including syndicated bond deals, liability management, and MTN programme updates and establishments.
• Prepare and negotiate deal documentation including bond transaction documents, auditor’s comfort letters, mandate letters and NDAs.
• Liaise with external counsel on transactional workflow.
• Provide input on related regulatory and market developments impacting business.

Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• Paid holiday.
• Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.

Application Information

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

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