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Job Title

Structured Finance Paralegal

Department

Debt Capital Markets

Office Location

London

Reports To

Group Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

Hogan Lovells debt capital markets practice offers expert advice on a full range of debt capital markets, structured finance and fund finance transactions, ranging from corporate, high yield and sovereign bonds to securitisations (covering various asset classes and structures) to derivatives and structured products. It operates as an integrated part of the firm's global  international debt capital markets and structured finance team. The clients that this team represents include issuers, lenders, sponsors, borrowers, managers and arrangers, derivatives counterparties (sell and buy side), trustees and depositaries of debt, equity, equity linked and other instruments and originators of securitised assets as well as investors in such instruments. Hogan Lovells has advised clients on these products for many years, including advising on Eurobonds since that market's inception in the 1960's, on its first securitisation as early as 1984, and on high yield bonds when they were first introduced from the US in the early 1990's. The team focuses on the complex "high added value" end of the capital markets. In the last few years it has achieved a market-leading positions in a number of areas.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

The paralegal's main duty is to support the structured finance and securitisation team on a wide range of transactions although the role will also provide support to other teams as needed, for example fund finance. Duties will include:

• Supporting the production of documentation based on precedent forms
• Assisting with signings and undertaking post-completion tasks
• Assisting with the drafting of condition precedent documents
• Researching information using paper and computerised resources
• General administration, including proof reading, filing and photocopying
• Assisting with queries from fee earners
• Develop effective working relationships with members of the department and other support and legal departments

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• High level of IT literacy
• MS Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint experience
• Excellent research skills
• Knowledge of finance transactions
• Law degree or equivalent

Desired

• Prior knowledge of structured finance transactions
• Prior knowledge of fund structures

General Attributes

• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage tasks effectively
• Strong presentation skills with excellent oral and written communication skills
• The ability to communicate effectively to all levels of staff, including lawyers, PAs and business services, is required. This applies to all forms of communication: telephone; written; and face-to-face
• Excellent team-worker
• High level of attention to detail
• Able to work under pressure to deadlines
• Professional, efficient and business-like manner
• Proactive and shows initiative
• Flexible and willing to take on new and challenging tasks

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

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