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As an Associate or Senior Associate, you will play a key role in the Banking Team working closely with partners and clients on a wide range of transactions, including secured and unsecured lending, acquisitions, project finance, and real estate finance.
The Client
Our client is a globally recognised full-service law firm, well known for its exceptional client service and commitment to delivering high-quality legal work across a wide range of industries.
With an outstanding reputation both nationally and internationally, the firm is renowned for fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team environment.
They are dedicated to the professional development of their employees, providing genuine opportunities for career progression and the chance to make a meaningful impact.
Benefits
Hybrid working (3 days from the office, 2 days from home)
Competitive salary and bonus structure
Exposure to high-profile, complex work alongside market-leading professionals
Clear pathways for career progression
The Role
Your responsibilities will include:
Leading and managing significant banking and finance transactions, including drafting, and negotiating complex legal documents such as loan agreements and security documentation.
Providing strategic legal advice to clients on bespoke financial arrangements, ensuring solutions align with their commercial objectives.
Building and maintaining strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and contributing to business development initiatives.
Conducting legal research on relevant banking and finance legislation, regulation, and case law to ensure the highest standard of client service.
Mentoring and supervising junior team members, fostering their professional development.
Collaborating with colleagues across practice areas, including corporate and real estate, to deliver integrated legal services to clients.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have around 4-10 years of PQE in banking and finance, with demonstrable expertise in leading complex transactions.
This is simply given as a guide - there are multiple opportunities available within the team at Associate and Senior Associate level, and the Partners are keen to speak to Banking Lawyers at all levels of qualification.
A strong academic background combined with excellent legal research, drafting, and negotiation skills.
A proactive and adaptable approach, with the ability to manage multiple work streams and deliver under tight deadlines.
How to Apply
If you are interested in this Leeds based Senior Associate (Banking) opportunity, or wish to apply, please contact Sophie Linley or Kieran Wallace at Sacco Mann on 0113 245 3338 or ask to speak to another member of the Private Practice team. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Posted: 2025-04-01 12:06:47
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Our award-winning client is looking for an NQ Banking and Finance Solicitor, to join its highly respected team in Leeds.
If you're looking for a firm that can offer you a clear progression route, a friendly working environment and excellent quality work, then please read on! This firm is a highly-successful practice and is a key player in the Yorkshire market, with a national and international reputation.
The firm places real importance on providing a partner-led service with a hands-on approach and is renowned for being forward-thinking and commercially savvy.
The team prides itself on taking an innovative approach and commits to investing time and resources into building relationships with clients to understand their goals and achieve them. In this role you will be assisting Partners and Legal Directors on high value matters and running your own caseload of banking and finance matters including development and real estate finance, structured finance, bridging loans and asset-based lending.
They will actively encourage you to get to know and spend time with their contacts and clients.
As well as a more balanced approach to work this firm offers a highly collegiate working environment, something which is at the core of the team and firm.
There is also superb training and development and the opportunity to work with many lawyers who started their careers with the larger national and international firms but have decided that there is a different, and for many, more enjoyable and productive way of working.
Our client is ideally looking for someone starting out in their qualified career, probably at Newly Qualified level.
They offer a competitive salary and benefits package with many other peripheral benefits.
So, if you are a Banking and Finance Solicitor already or are about to qualify, and want to be within a firm where individuals are valued, where there is exceptional work and where the training and development are not only first rate but are also geared individually towards you then this is an excellent opportunity.
How to Apply
If you would like to find out more about this Banking and Finance Solicitor role in Leeds, get in touch with Sophie Linley on 0113 236 6711 or another member of the Private Practice team at Sacco Mann.
References to PQE are simply given as a guide and we are of course happy to chat with anyone who possesses the relevant skills and would like to learn more.
Alternatively, if you would be interested in other available opportunities, please visit our website or contact one of our specialist consultants.
If this role is not for you, but you know someone who may be interested then please let them or us know as we offer a reward scheme for all successful referrals.
For full terms please see our website ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Posted: 2025-04-01 12:02:41
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Our award-winning client is looking for a Banking Solicitor, to join its highly respected team in Leeds.
If you're looking for a firm that can offer you a clear progression route, a friendly working environment and excellent quality work, then please read on! This firm is a highly-successful practice and is a key player in the Yorkshire market, with a national and international reputation.
The firm places real importance on providing a partner-led service with a hands-on approach and is renowned for being forward-thinking and commercially savvy.
The team prides itself on taking an innovative approach and commits to investing time and resources into building relationships with clients to understand their goals and achieve them. In this role you will be dealing with high value matters and running your own caseload of banking and finance matters including development and real estate finance, structured finance, bridging loans and asset-based lending.
They will actively encourage you to get to know and spend time with their contacts and clients.
As well as a more balanced approach to work this firm offers a highly collegiate working environment, something which is at the core of the team and firm.
There is also superb training and development and the opportunity to work with many lawyers who started their careers with the larger national and international firms but have decided that there is a different, and for many, more enjoyable and productive way of working.
Our client envisages the successful candidate to be 3+ PQE however, this level of experience has been given as an approximate guide for applicants and our client is happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this level but who have the relevant knowledge/experience.
How to Apply
If you would like to find out more about this Banking Solicitor role in Leeds, get in touch with Sophie Linley on 0113 236 6711 or another member of the Private Practice team at Sacco Mann.
References to PQE are simply given as a guide and we are of course happy to chat with anyone who possesses the relevant skills and would like to learn more.
Alternatively, if you would be interested in other available opportunities, please visit our website or contact one of our specialist consultants.
If this role is not for you, but you know someone who may be interested then please let them or us know as we offer a reward scheme for all successful referrals.
For full terms please see our website ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Posted: 2025-03-31 10:58:45
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One of our international clients in Manchester, are growing their banking legal team and are looking to make a strategic hire.
They are looking for a Banking Solicitor at the Senior Associate level to join them.
As a Banking Solicitor with this firm, you will gain exposure to international clients including banks and financial institutions.
You will be joining a small team of close-knit lawyers who are specialists in their field.
The firm are in growth mode currently, so it is an exciting time for a Banking Solicitor to join them.
If you are a Banking Solicitor in Manchester and would like to confidentially discuss, contact James Barker on 0161 672-3111. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Manchester, England
Posted: 2025-03-20 10:58:42
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This is an exciting opportunity within a highly entrepreneurial firm's Leeds office for a Banking Solicitor to spread their wings, have every support in making their mark and have a clear and open run at Partnership.
This award-winning firm, with an impressive growth trajectory, could recruit someone as junior as 4 or 5 years pqe, who is perhaps in a team which is well structured and not giving them the clear career opportunity that they are looking for.
They wouldn't need you to bring work with you, but would need you to be confident in managing clients and doing the work, both with support.
However they could also recruit up to Partner level depending upon your track record.
They would be looking for someone who has the appetite to build upon the base of work and contacts that they have so this isn't a role for a Banking Solicitor that doesn't like the limelight.
The clients are very much within the middle market, alternative lenders and challenger banks, these clients are increasingly struggling to cope with the rising rates at the larger firms and this firm can offer a great platform for them as although they are not a large national or international you would find yourself surrounded and supported by other high quality, entrepreneurial lawyers who can deliver a wider service to these clients.
In terms of advancement, that really is down to you, there would be nobody standing in your way, however they do have a banking team within another office so there is still plenty of support.
This firm care about their people, you would be well supported, well enumerated and an important part of their vibrant Leeds office.
If you are interested in finding out more about this Banking Solicitor role in Leeds please get in touch with Rachael Mann on 0113 467 411 ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Salary / Rate: £65000 - £90000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-18 12:12:08
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Are you a Corporate Solicitor looking to work on quality work in a busy and growing department? Our client is a highly regarded commercial law firm who have a fantastic presence across the North of England.
They are looking for a Corporate Solicitor to join them in their Newcastle offices.
Joining a highly successful corporate department, you will be working with a quality client base running your own caseload of high-quality corporate work including a mix of mergers and acquisitions, banking and private equity matters.
The team is looking to hear from ambitious corporate lawyers looking for the opportunity to really make their mark in a very successful team.
Ideally, the firm is looking to hear from Associates and Senior Associates with 2-8yrs PQE
* however they will also consider more junior lawyer if you have pre-qualification experience within a specialist corporate team.
If you are interested in this Corporate Solicitor role in Newcastle then please get in touch with Helen Mauborgne on 0113 467 9786 to find out more information or if you've a CV to hand, please submit this for review.
To hear about other legal opportunities that we have available, please visit our website.
Alternatively, if you know anybody who would be suitable for this role then please let them or us know as we offer a reward for successful referral.
For full terms, please visit our website.
*Please note our advertisements use PQE and salary level purely as a guide.
We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Salary / Rate: £58000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-14 10:13:18
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This Banking team have a national reach but also a local presence and are looking to recruit a number of Banking Solicitors to their national team to be based in Leeds.
The work available is truly national and of an exceptional quality as they are on many major panels, that said they are not one of the large international firms and consequently they have a completely different offer in terms of environment, approach and career trajectory.
Given their current work, and their pipeline, they are looking for several recruits to deliver on their strategic growth, both at the senior and mid-level.
They are keen to speak to :
Established Banking Partners looking for a good degree of autonomy and a friendly, supportive, down to earth team
Senior Banking Lawyers keen to step into partnership - if you are keen to take on a role where there are existing panel relationships that can be further developed without you feeling like you are treading on the toes of others.
Mid-level Banking lawyers ( 3-6yrs) - it may be that you are already within established team but are looking for a practice where there is plenty of scope for progression and autonomy but with a supportive approach.
It is unusual or a national team to be able to offer such a clear run at so many panels, but they can genuinely do so and by grabbing that opportunity there are clear paths to progression whatever your level.
Whatever your level you will work with household name funders - core banks and alternative lenders - as well as acting for borrowers across corporate and real estate (investment and development).
The quality of the work is equivalent to that at many international firms, and they are looking for someone already handling this work but do promise to offer a different environment than that found in many teams.
The team is down to earth and there are no egos at all.
There are long standing team members, the fact that there is little turnover in this team says a lot about their culture and approach.
They also have a sensible approach to hours and targets, banking solicitors typically work long hours, but this team only does so when it is absolutely necessary.
They like you to have a life outside of work, a career and to feel professionally satisfied with the work that you are doing.
If you are looking for some of the best work available, great career progression, with reasonable work life balance, contact Rachael Mann at Sacco Mann for a confidential discussion on 0113 4677111 or e-mail her rachael.mann@saccomann.com
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Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Posted: 2025-03-12 10:29:45
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NEW ROLE | Commercial Property | Preston
Are you a Licensed Conveyancer or Fee Earner with a background in residential conveyancing who is looking to transition into Commercial Property?
If so then this is a great opportunity you dont want to miss!
This role will involve managing a caseload of 50-60 matters, primarily focused on plot sales and developments, but will also include sales, acquisitions, banking finance, leasing and asset management.
The department is very busy and the firm prides themselves on high calibre service with their clients.
You will also have the support of 1-2 paralegals.
The ideal candidate will be a Residential or Commercial Property Solicitor/CILEX or experienced Paralegal with ideally 2+ years PQE.
The salary on offer is highly competitive and dependent upon prior property experience.
They are a forward-thinking firm who strive to look after their people in a comfortable but professional working environment.
My client offers:
25 days Holiday PA
Hybrid working
Free onsite parking
Bupa Healthcare
Annual bonus
If you would like to apply for this role, please forward an up to date copy of your CV to Tracy Carlisle t.carlisle@clayton-legal.co.uk or call 0161 9147 357 for an informal discussion.
At Clayton Legal we passionately believe your talent matters, so we specialise in recruiting the best legal talent and connecting this to the right opportunities.
Clayton Legal is recognised as the talent partner of choice with clients ranging from small legal practices to international and global law firms.
Whether you're looking for total recruitment outsourcing or a single appointment, or an overview of the recruitment market our award recognised service can confidently meet your talent needs. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Preston,England
Start: 12/03/2025
Salary / Rate: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-12 09:27:02
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Are you a Corporate Solicitor looking for a chance to work in a leading national law firm? Do you enjoy working with large, national clients? If so, this role in Leeds could be the one for you! Our client is a highly-regarded firm with a number of offices across the country and has an excellent reputation which lends itself to an impressive base of strong national clients and international connections.
What really sets this role apart is the great working environment and close-knit team feel. Working closely alongside the Corporate Partners, you will be exposed to a range of high-calibre corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, MBOs and MBIs, corporate restructuring and reorganisation, banking and finance, transactional due diligence and more. Alongside the impressive caseload, you will be involved in the business development and marketing activities of the department, meaning you can start to build a name for yourself in the market. Our client is looking to recruit two lawyers and can therefore look at any level from NQ to Legal Director level.
To hear more about this Corporate Solicitor role based in Leeds please get in touch with Rachel Birkinshaw on 0113 467 9795. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Salary / Rate: £60000 - £90000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-10 11:24:50
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NEW ROLE | Commercial Property | Preston | 58508
Are you a Licensed Conveyancer or Fee Earner with a background in residential conveyancing who is looking to transition into Commercial Property?
If so then this is a great opportunity you dont want to miss!
This role will involve managing a caseload of 50-60 matters, primarily focused on plot sales and developments, but will also include sales, acquisitions, banking finance, leasing and asset management.
The department is very busy and the firm prides themselves on high calibre service with their clients.
You will also have the support of 1-2 paralegals.
The ideal candidate will be a Residential or Commercial Property Solicitor/CILEX or experienced Paralegal with ideally 2+ years PQE.
The salary on offer is highly competitive and dependent upon prior property experience.
They are a forward-thinking firm who strive to look after their people in a comfortable but professional working environment.
My client offers:
25 days Holiday PA
Hybrid working
Free onsite parking
Bupa Healthcare
Annual bonus
If you would like to apply for this role, please forward an up to date copy of your CV to Tracy Carlisle t.carlisle@clayton-legal.co.uk or call 0161 9147 357 for an informal discussion.
At Clayton Legal we passionately believe your talent matters, so we specialise in recruiting the best legal talent and connecting this to the right opportunities.
Clayton Legal is recognised as the talent partner of choice with clients ranging from small legal practices to international and global law firms.
Whether you're looking for total recruitment outsourcing or a single appointment, or an overview of the recruitment market our award recognised service can confidently meet your talent needs. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Preston,England
Start: 05/03/2025
Salary / Rate: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 2025-03-05 14:26:11
