Director - Structuring and Legal Execution, Real Estate Finance

JOB TITLE: Director - Structuring and Legal Execution, Real Estate Finance

LOCATION: London

SALARY: Competitive package available

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of your time, at our London office.

About this opportunity

We're looking for a Director to join our Origination & Structuring, Real Estate and Housing team. This “on desk” business role focuses on the structuring and execution of commercial real estate loans for the full spectrum of borrowers across all asset classes. You'll be acting on fast paced, innovative and market leading transactions with a friendly team of Relationship Directors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advising on the structure of commercial real estate loan transactions.
• Reviewing and negotiating commercial real estate loan documentation.
• Reviewing real estate due diligence.
• Liaising with external legal counsel in respect of the preparation and negotiation of commercial real estate loan documentation.
• Advising on legal and documentary issues which arise in respect of new product development in the CRE sector, including in terms of strategy and technology.
• Developing and maintaining precedent documentation.
• Organising and delivering training.
• Managing a team of Associate Directors.
• Managing the relationship with external law firms.
• Engaging with internal stakeholders in respect of legal and documentary issues relating to commercial real estate loans.
• Providing ad hoc advice in respect of structuring, documentary and execution issues arising on commercial real estate loan transactions.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're a market leading provider of commercial real estate finance delivering efficiently structured solutions to domestic and international private equity, insurance, pension, sovereign wealth and family office sponsors, as well as listed companies, that are tailored to their investment objectives.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What we need from you?

• Experience of documenting high value commercial real estate loans using the LMA REF precedents.
• A proven background working in a senior role in the real estate finance sector whether as a senior lawyer at a major law firm, in-house or in a transaction management team.
• Experience of leading transaction teams.
• Excellent relationship management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to deliver complex advice to colleagues and customers both verbally and in writing.
• The adaptability and resilience to manage a challenging workload in a busy corporate setting.

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. 

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. 

If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. 

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

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

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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose!