Description:
Duties and Responsibilities:- Draft, review, and negotiate commitment letters and term sheets as well as primary loan and security documentation and ancillary deliverables.
- Prepare and review issues lists and summary grids.
- Conduct legal research, depending on client needs.
- Manage deal teams and processes from initial discussions through closing and post-closing matters.
- Conduct due diligence and provide legal services to leading international and domestic corporate clients, including private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, commercial and investment banks.
- Be a primary point of contact for clients, opposing counsel, and other transactional legal teams.
- Assist clients with ongoing deal administration, including joinders, amendments, interpretive questions, and collateral matters.
- Review initial drafts of credit agreements and other loan documents for various types of transactions, including both first and second lien structures, bank-bond financings, asset-based transactions, prepare succinct issues lists and revise drafts reflecting client comments.
- Attend and present educational seminars and have a high degree of contact with clients, opposing counsel, and other parties.
- Exercise good judgment in internal and external written and verbal communications.
- Mentor and train junior team-members.
- Attend and participate in continuing education classes and client development initiatives.
- Salary: $310,000 - $390,000
Qualifications:
- J.D., LL.M., or U.S. equivalent in law, plus 3 years of professional experience as Attorney, Associate, Law Clerk, or related occupation/position/job title providing legal advice at an international law firm and managing and negotiating domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions.
- Must also have experience with the following special skills: 3 years of professional experience advising both large and small cap private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, commercial and investment banks and other clients in the energy/infrastructure, technology, financial services and telecommunications industries on all aspects of transactions and the financing life cycle on both the borrower and lender side; 3 years of professional experience overseeing multiple legal projects involving debt restructurings, reserve-based lending, asset-based lending, acquisition financings, general syndicated lending, capital markets offerings and direct lending transactions; 3 years of professional experience advising on deal administration, including joinders, amendments, interpretive questions, liability management and collateral matters; 3 years of professional experience with cross-border financing structures and global issues relating to secured transactions and lending, including experience with LMA style UK-law secured financings and working with cross border teams and international clients from multiple countries; and 3 years of professional experience training junior associates and legal assistants in connection with the administration and execution of debt financing transactions.
- Must be admitted to the New York State Bar.
