Dentons

Senior Associate

15/01/2025
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Job Description

Duration: Permanent
PQE: 6+
Location: UK
Reports to: Partner
Type of Role: Hybrid

Reference Number : 7595

The Department

Our Global structured finance team is a market leader in many jurisdictions, and in London we are ranked in Band 2 by Legal 500. Our team is led by industry leaders, with magic circle backgrounds, whose portfolio of clients includes financial institutions, private equity firms, trustees and global opportunities funds. We regularly advise on all securitisation asset classes, portfolio sales, warehouse financing and their securitisation refinancing and other forms of structured finance.

You will also be encouraged to do other types of transactional work including debt capital markets, Islamic finance/Sukuk and derivatives.

Located in offices across the globe, we maximise our global presence and local expertise to offer clients seamless and integrated solutions.

The Role

We now have an opportunity for an ambitious Senior Associate to join our growing Structured Finance team. The successful candidate will advise on premium structured finance and securitisation work within a supportive and friendly team environment. Maximising our global presence and local expertise, you will connect with colleagues throughout the firm globally and manage international transactions to meet our clients’ needs.

This role presents fantastic long term career prospects for the right candidates. You will build client relationships, contribute to business development and thought leadership, mentor more junior colleagues, raising your own profile and supporting the continued growth of our ambitious practice and the Firm.

Required experience, skills, and attributes

Technical skills

  • Strong academic record, including a degree or equivalent
  • 6+ PQE level
  • Extensive, in-depth knowledge of securitisation and structured finance transactions
  • Experience of acting as transaction counsel on securitisation and structured finance transactions is advantageous
  • You will ideally have experience of working with international clients in the finance sector
  • Ability to work with a degree of independence
  • Exceptional drafting skills and legal research ability

Personal attributes

  • Dedicated to exceptional client service
  • Excellent business development ability
  • Strong problem solving and decision making skills, coupled with good business awareness
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
  • Demonstrate initiative and drive and take control of own career development

    • You will be a team player and sociable

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive, regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity.

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurodiversity, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities. We also offer flexible working hours.

During the application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

If you have any questions about this or the role criteria, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com. Enquiries only please – applications will not be accepted via email.

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business, nor will we accept any associated terms of business.

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10/01/2025
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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate to join our growing Consulting team.
Based in Guernsey, you’ll support the Director in the continued development of a regulatory and compliance consulting services business. Your key role will be to work with colleagues across our consulting, legal, and governance practice areas to assist in the delivery and execution of a broad range of client mandates.
In return, we can offer an exciting and collaborative working environment with varied and challenging work.

If you would like to join an ambitious and forward thinking firm whose inclusive culture and values recognise that its people are fundamental to its success, we would love to hear from you.


About the role

  • Support the Director to build a profitable regulatory and compliance consulting business under the Mourant brand.
  • Assist in the development of products and services consistent with Mourant Consulting vision and strategy.
  • Ensure high quality client service levels by delivering on client mandates with colleagues collaboratively to ensure they are delivered effectively, to a high standard and within deadlines.
  • Keep abreast of all regulatory changes and industry standards for the purpose of providing relevant products and services.
  • In conjunction with the Director provide technical advice on products and services to clients.
  • Attending key client meetings with senior stakeholders.
  • Developing key client deliverables such as reports and working papers, including managing the input from Director and Managing Director before final submission to client.
  • Monitoring mandate risks, budgets and profitability, including identifying additional revenue opportunities.
  • Manage client expectations and nurture relationships to increase the potential for repeat business and referrals.
  • Support the Director to prepare for business development meetings with clients, attending those meetings and helping to manage the opportunities pipeline. Development of client mandate proposals.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues throughout the firm to ensure consultancy services are consistent with the ‘one firm’ approach.
  • Liaise with the Mourant Business Services for support and collaborate with Business Services teams to ensure policies, procedures, systemsand controls are followed in practice.


About you

  • Preferably educated to degree level and professionally qualified, with at least 3 years’ relevant experience.
  • Sound knowledge of the Guernsey regulatory regime is essential and experience of other jurisdictions is desirable.
  • Client focused with an ability to listen and understand clients’ needs and consistently exceed their expectations.
  • Possess a high level of intellectual rigour with a desire to build and maintain technical skills and expertise.
  • Effective presentation skills and the ability to facilitate workshops both internally and externally.
  • Effective communication skills and experience of dealing with clients.
  • Proven ability to build effective, long lasting client relationships.
  • Demonstratable project and people management skills.


About Mourant

We are proud to be a leading offshore law-firm led professional services business, advising many of the world’s leading financial institutions, corporations, public organisations, private equity houses and investment funds, as well as ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices.
We believe in inclusive workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard, valued and respected. We have a strong sense of common purpose, where all our people are clear about our goals and the role they can play in achieving them. We pride ourselves in providing accessible development opportunities to all our people in a team-spirited environment, where everyone feels like they belong and can thrive.
If you would like to join an award winning and forward thinking firm whose inclusive culture and values recognise that its people are fundamental to its success, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. If you need this job description or the application form in an alternative format, or if you would like to discuss the recruitment process with our recruitment team, please email recruitment@mourant.com.

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