Legal Counsel – Banking and Finance

A specialist financial services organisation is seeking a technically strong Banking & Finance lawyer to join its in-house Legal team in London.

This position sits within the core Legal function and requires a forward-thinking lawyer to support a broad range of complex matters across the organisation’s lending activities, including commercial real estate lending, consumer credit, SME and corporate lending, and savings products.

While the role is broad in scope, candidates with strong banking and finance documentation experience will be particularly well suited.

You will be:

• Drafting and negotiating lending agreements
• Supporting complex deal structuring
• Reviewing detailed banking and finance documentation
• Advising on structured finance and securitisation-related matters
• Advising on financial services regulation and ensuring compliance across lending and savings products
• Identifying and escalating legal and regulatory risk where appropriate
• Partnering closely with product, originations, operations, and risk teams

The Ideal Candidate:

• Qualified lawyer with between 3–8 years’ PQE
• Strong experience in banking and finance law
• Significant exposure to lending documentation
• Ideally experience in a private practice banking team, and/or some in-house experience within a financial institution
• A solid understanding of structured finance and securitisation documentation
• Real Estate Finance experience
• Commercial, proactive, and forward-thinking
• Genuinely interested in building a long-term in-house career
• Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders
• Open to adopting technology and AI tools

To register an interest, please send through your updated CV to zalex@lawabsolute.com

Working through LAW Absolute

As the first recruitment agency to specialise only in placing interim lawyers, LAW Absolute has a long history in supporting lawyers who want to work flexibly and in control of their career.

We are able to offer our contractors a range of challenging opportunities across private practice, corporates, financial services and within the not-for-profit sector. With over 20 years of placing contract lawyers in these markets, we have built excellent networks and many of the lawyers that we work with are contract lawyers that we have successfully placed on multiple assignments, allowing them to work with autonomy and build their career in the way they choose to. For our clients, we have worked closely with legal teams to help them plan and manage delivery of their services in a more efficient way in terms of resources, costs and timescales.

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