Mid-level lawyer – Structured Debt

What you will be responsible for

As a lawyer at Clifford Chance your remit will be to apply your full knowledge of the law by identifying legal issues, drafting documents and advising clients – we will expect you to:

• Have responsibility for drafting legal documents clearly and concisely.
• Create solutions using your legal knowledge, applying effective research techniques.
• Challenge and test advice against legal compliance and risks.
• Be proactive to pursue and expand legal knowledge to ensure legal knowledge and technical expertise up to date.
• Utilize client focus initiatives in terms of driving understanding and monitoring service levels of their individual client needs.
• Engage with knowledge resources effectively and collaborate in knowledge initiatives for the Firm.
• Manage matters with a disciplined practice - comprising of timely timesheet submission, adhering to matter opening and conflicts clearance processes.
• Adopt best delivery tools: e.g. templates, Legal Support Centre, Resource Management, Legal Project Managers, Matter Balance Reports.

Your career experience so far

We are seeking a mid-level lawyer, French-law qualified and trained who can demonstrate proven post-qualification experience in structured finance. Your knowledge and experience will have been gained at a leading practice with a reputation for work in this area.

We expect an outstanding academic history and proven first rate legal skills, combined with a strong reputation amongst clients for providing commercial solutions, excellent transactional and management skills.

You will naturally be able to demonstrate excellent document drafting skills. You should also demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills, along with a high level of commercial awareness and will have had strong exposure of collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.

It is crucial that you can demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management and thought leadership.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.

Clifford Chance has 33 offices around the world. Every day, around 6000 staff members worldwide work together and with our clients to find solutions to issues arising in all aspects of business law. In our Paris office, more than 200 lawyers work on all types of complex, innovative matters, each one needing specialist understanding of the specific context of the relevant market.

Our Structured Debt team is made up of approximately 2 partners and 5 lawyers and legal professionals, of various nationalities, who advise the most important French and international banks, project finance sponsors, investment funds and large corporations. We assist our clients on a full range of banking and financial products including securitization, factoring, derivatives and real estate finance transactions. Our approach to the legal profession is transversal and responds to the diversity of skills required and the geographical dimension that our clients expect from our services.  As a result, the lawyers in the group are required to work closely with many specialists from other disciplines of the firm, not only in Paris but also in all the other countries covered by our network in order to use Clifford Chance's local and international expertise to serve the needs of our clients.

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.