Job description

It’s Time

Allen & Overy is a leading global law firm operating in over thirty countries. Embracing new trends and harnessing decades of experience, we’ve earned our place at the forefront of the legal industry. Our partners are recognised as leaders in their field and our deals and cases often make headline business news. As a result, we’ve developed a reputation for delivering excellence, in all that we do. Today, we’re continuing to break new ground. By embracing new ways of thinking and integrating technology into our everyday work, we’ve been named as the Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe by the Financial Times five times.
 
Join our team and you’ll be part of a flexible, inclusive culture underpinned by openness and acceptance. We’re driven by the belief that, to perform, people need support and space to collaborate. By combining those values with an ambitious outlook, we can give you the opportunity to thrive.

Role purpose

The International Capital Markets (ICM) Securitisation department are looking to recruit a Professional Support Lawyer, who can develop and maintain know-how resources, design and deliver training sessions, monitor developments in the law and practice relating to Securitisation and act as a contact for Securitisation know-how enquiries world-wide. Candidates will ideally be 3+ years qualified with experience of Securitisation and/or mainstream capital markets transactions.

This position will be on a 9 - 12 month fixed term contract, and will report to the ICM Know-How & Training Partner and Securitisation partners.

Key relationships

• ICM Securitisation Partners and fee-earners
• ICM Partners and fee-earners globally
• ICM PSL and Know-How team
• Wider A&O Know-how community

Role and responsibilities

• To maintain and update existing know-how resources, including the ICM Securitisation Intranet pages and online services available internally and to clients.
• To design, plan and deliver securitisation training programmes (including induction programme for new joiners and trainees) and, when appropriate, deliver relevant training sessions and help with preparing training and presentation materials and to provide ad-hoc training for external clients.
• Monitor relevant legal, regulatory and other relevant developments in order to keep updated existing (or prepare new) know-how resources, including standard form documentation, and to assist fee earners with being able to provide the latest analysis when giving client advice.
• Be the first point of contact for legal queries relating to the Securitisation department transactional work and product lines.
• Support partners and associates as required in their client relationship development through preparing and/or identifying useful written and electronic materials.
• Brief fee earners going on client secondments on the know-how resources available to them whilst on secondment, be a first point of contact for them for queries whilst on secondment and to obtain on-going and post-secondment feedback from them on client know-how provision.
• To work closely with other ICM Professional Support Lawyers and the ICM know-how team to provide timely responses to relevant queries sent to the ICM Documentation and Know-How Enquiries e-mail address/directly to the ICM Professional Support Lawyers
• To attend meetings of relevant external associations as necessary in order to keep the department up to date with developments, and to assist with the production of papers for such associations if required.
• To develop and maintain links with Professional Support Lawyers in other relevant departments (e.g. Banking, Corporate, Restructuring, Tax) within the firm to ensure that areas of common interest to more than one department are appropriately covered.

Key requirements

• Qualified lawyer – 3+ years PQE or similar
• Technical competence in Securitisation law as expected at level of qualification
• Self-starter with the desire and ability to continuously acquire, build upon and share knowledge
• Will have worked successfully as an associate or PSL / Senior PSL in a bank or law firm
• Sound experience of working with senior management within a complex international organisation
• Strong commercial/business acumen with the ability to deliver creative and pragmatic solutions and advice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface at all levels and particularly to win the respect of the partner and fee-earner community, building and developing strong (internal and external) client relationships
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast paced, intellectually rigorous environment
• High energy individual who enjoys both the operational and strategic sides of this role and shows great flexibility
• Resilient; able to understand that credibility has to be earned in this environment and may take time
• A person of sound judgment, able to establish a high level of credibility in the organisation and act as a trusted advisor to fee-earners