Senior Lawyer - Securities & Asset Management Legal - 12 months FTC

About this Opportunity:

This is an excellent chance for a senior lawyer to join the Securities & Asset Management Legal team (SAML) on a 12 month contract. Ours is a positive and pragmatic legal team, working closely with business areas across the Corporate & Institutional Banking business area of Lloyds Banking Group (the Group) for clients in the UK and overseas. 

The team supports across a variety of client debt capital markets (DCM) transactions.  Products include securitisations, covered bonds, unsecured primary bond issuance, private placements, green bonds, social housing bonds, structured products, liability management exercises and high yield bond transactions.   We’re looking for a senior lawyer to help us deliver specialist and insightful advice primarily on securitisation transactions of various asset classes, including mortgage loans, credit cards, auto loans and trade receivables, from the structuring and development of transactions through to launch.  You would also be expected to provide legal advice on some of the other types of DCM transactions supported by the team.

Now is a superb time to join us, given this is a growing and strategic area for the Group.  You would report to the Head of Legal of SAML and work closely with the rest of the team and business colleagues.  Similarly, you would collaborate with colleagues across Legal & Secretariat (L&S) on central initiatives in support of the wider team.

If you’re looking for a great opportunity to continue building your knowledge, grow your network and develop your career, you can achieve your goals in this role. You’ll join a friendly, dedicated, value adding legal team, who work hand in hand with our businesses to build great customer outcomes.

About you: You’re someone who will:

• Demonstrate your experience quickly and step up to lead the legal support on a number of exciting securitisation transactions.
• Have the adaptability and intellectual curiosity to get involved in other DCM transactions and related strategic / regulatory projects.
• Be able to provide sound and commercial legal advice, and work well both as an individual and in groups, with the support of a friendly team who will help you develop your skills and knowledge in this area.
• Be great at building trust and influencing others, be keen to grow internal and external networks to help achieve more together, and collaborate across L&S to support the wider business and our community as a whole.
• Appreciate the chance to come up with innovative ideas, challenge where appropriate, build consensus and deputise for colleagues where appropriate.  
• Be passionate about your own development and relish the opportunities to upskill in areas which impact this business, including in matters of ESG, Data, Tech Advances and Digitalisation.

Background

You must hold a current practising certificate in a relevant jurisdiction. Ideally you would have a minimum of 7 years post qualification experience in and an excellent understanding of the legal and regulatory framework and market practices applying to securitisation transactions, and other types of DCM transactions, whether gained in private practice or in a mixture of private practice and inhouse. However, if that is not quite the case, but you have demonstrable relevant expertise, clearly transferable skills, and are serious about your development, we would be pleased to consider your application.

We’ll support your growth with continuous training and development opportunities, regular feedback and career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations may be.

About working for us

We’re driven by a clear purpose - to Help Britain Prosper. We're passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. By focusing on the future and investing in our technology, workplaces and colleagues, the Group is being transformed whilst we learn and thrive in an excellent place to work!

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative, and it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

If you like the idea of joining us, please do apply! You should include an up-to-date CV and a short covering letter explaining why you're suited to this role. We’d love to hear from you!