Job Description
The role
Job Overview
Whilst being a part of the wider transactional derivatives and structured products team, the candidate will focus on Strategic Equities transactions. The firm advises across the full range of strategic equity solutions including stake building, financing, hedging and disposal strategies. The formats of these transactions include derivatives, stock loans, margin loans and ECM strategies.
We are looking for a candidate with experience of this area who is able to assist our clients in the structuring, documentation and execution of their transactions.
Who you will work with
Our Derivatives and Structured Products group is an acknowledged market leader. Our work reflects the dynamism and volatility of today’s financial markets, where competitive edge is built on innovation, foresight and speed of delivery.
Our Derivatives and Structured Products group in London is made up of 11 Partners and 34 Lawyers and 7 trainees.
A smaller team led by 2 partners focuses on Strategic Equities work.
What you will be responsible for
The majority of our Strategic Equities work is international, high profile and time sensitive. You can expect to have direct client contact with our market leading and highly experienced clients. You will also collaborate extensively with other practice areas and offices across the firm.
What you will do
We work with the world's leading financial institutions and financial investor/fund clients. The innovation and legal creativity which we bring to new financial products and financial market strategies is fundamental to the outcome of our clients’ businesses.
Our market-leading experience attracts the most complex, challenging and ground-breaking deals to the firm. This, in turn, has enabled us to attract some of the best and most ambitious lawyers to assist our clients and build one of the market’s leading, and most diverse, practices.
Qualifications
Your experience
We are interested to hear from outstanding mid-level lawyers who already have experience with Strategic Equities in addition to a solid grounding in other transactional derivatives and structured products. You will have a working knowledge of ISDA, GMRA, GMSLA and LMA based products and a firm grasp of English law security legal principles and practice as well as an ability to review and interrogate foreign law security arrangements. Experience with legal opinions around these topics would be an advantage.
Beyond Strategic Equities, you will also have the chance to work on OTC fixed income, credit and equity based derivatives, asset backed securities, repackaging programmes, collateral documentation and structures, repos, stock loans, credit and equity-linked notes, synthetic securitisations and insurance linked securities.
We welcome candidates from either similarly high profile private practice or with relevant legal in-house experience. We are very open to candidates from or with experience gained in other leading financial centres outside London.
Company Description
Who we are
We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.
Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.
You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.
Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.
Additional Information
Awards and Accolades
The group has been consistently ranked highly in Chambers UK for "Financial Services: UK-wide" & Legal 500 "Financial Services" categories. Some of our recent awards and rankings include:
Band 1: Derivatives and Structured Products
Legal 500 UK 2025
Winner: Team of the year: Structured finance and securitisation
IFLR Europe Awards 2023 and 2020
Winner: Global Law Firm of the Year - Overall
GlobalCapital – Global Derivatives Awards 2023 and 2021
Winner : Global Law Firm of the Year
Risk.Net Risk Awards 2024
Winner: European Law Firm of the Year
GlobalCapital – Global Derivatives Awards [2025 embargoed until 11 Sep], 2020
SRT Law Firm of the Year
GlobalCapital European Securitisation Awards 2025
Law Firm of the Year
SCI Capital Relief Trades Awards 2023, 2021 and 2019
How we will support you
From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.
Equal Opportunities
At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.
We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.
Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. Find out more here.
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