Senior Associate - Banking - London

Senior/ Principle Banking & Finance Associate to join a broad but specialist team A leading firm are looking for a Banking & Finance Associate to join their small and specialised Surety Team that sits within their wider Banking, Finance and Restructuring team. Whilst it sounds a niche area, it is in fact a broad a varied specialism that gives a huge breadth within a small premium client base looking at your standard banking documents such as LMAs and deed documents. Examples of work include a £900mil deal that involved guaranteeing safeguarding obligations or a recent transaction that was guaranteeing the pension for a wealthy client. The partners are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate. They are looking to invest in someone who will be involved in growing out this team and seeing them out the door on retirement. They are very hands on and can provide excellent training to get someone very quickly up to speed. They have worked together since 1998 providing stability and commeradery that has led to them being the leaders in this area. This is a truly exciting role which would suit someone with strong transactional skills and the confidence to network. This is a highly sociable environment where you will be encouraged to meet clients for coffee, dinners, football or other networking events. This does not require business development on your part, the relationships are well established between the team and premium insurance clients. You will be running with mid-level transactions and acting as second to partners larger projects. This is a middle management role so will offer you the responsibility of leading the juniors in the team once you're up to speed. This is a rare role that would allow you to be a big fish in a small pond. BCL Legal is an equal opportunities employer.