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Associate Capital Markets & Derivatives 0-5 PQE

Employer
CMS
Location
England, London
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
19 Apr 2021

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Vacancy Type
Solicitors – Private Practice
Contract Type
Permanent
Practice Area
Banking & Finance, Debt Capital Markets
Experience Level
0-2yrs PQE
Role Classification
Lawyer

Job Details

This is your chance to join a leading Capital Markets and Derivatives team, working on a wide range of structure finance, derivatives and capital markets transactions.

About the role

We have an extremely strong and enviable client base of financial institutions, including leading investment banks, insurance companies, asset and investment managers, and institutional and corporate clients, including trustees and pension schemes. The team forms a part of CMS's Finance practice comprising more than 100 lawyers. The team is international in its approach, regularly working with clients and CMS colleagues across Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

We have a strong reputation for quality work and a client-centric approach and look for these attributes in all our associates. Our partners are actively involved in matters so we are looking for associates who will take responsibility for matters, working closely with partners and be comfortable facing clients. We pride ourselves on the breadth of expertise we offer our clients, so our lawyers work on a variety of matters, applying the skills they learn to different types of products and clients.

The Capital Markets & Derivatives team is collegiate, collaborative and close-knit. Our team offers a wide range of challenging work, including securitised derivatives and structured products, repackagings, securitisations, OTC derivatives, repos, stock lending, strategic equity financings and a range of debt capital markets transactions. We are an entrepreneurial and flexible team, looking for bright, proactive lawyers who are keen to learn, develop and help us do excellent work for our clients.

About you

You will be an ambitious and talented capital markets, derivatives and/or structured finance lawyer looking to join a market-leading team based in London. Although experience in a range of products/areas covered by the team is a bonus, given the depth of our expertise we place particular value on your ability to learn and to apply existing skills to new product areas.

To meet the demands of this role you will:

* Be NQ-5 years PQE
* Be able to build and maintain strong client relationships
* Have excellent drafting skills and the ability to translate legal theory into practical advice
* Exercise sound judgment and have good interpersonal and consultancy skills
* Have excellent presentation and marketing skills
* Be enthusiastic, energetic and keen to experience a wide range of work and clients

About us

CMS is an international law firm with leading businesses throughout Europe, The Middle East, Asia and beyond. We create sustainable and rewarding futures for our clients, our people and our communities.

Ranked as the world's 5th largest law firm by lawyer headcount and 6th largest in the UK by revenue, CMS works with clients in over 40 countries from 70+ offices worldwide.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. And we recruit, value and nurture top talent.

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to our employees! Benefits include but are not limited to the following:

- 25 days annual leave

- Flexible working opportunities

- Flexible holiday purchase

- Private Medical Health Insurance

- Pensions package

- Health & wellbeing incentives

- Cycle to work scheme

- Individual office perks

Equal opportunities

CMS is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment, to not only adhere to current employment law, but to harness the full potential of our staff and ensure that all individuals are treated fairly and with respect. To meet this aim CMS endeavours to treat all staff and job applicants equally, on the basis of merit and the ability to do their job. Everybody will be treated equally regardless of race, colour, age, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital or civil partner status, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and pregnancy or maternity status ("Protected Characteristics"). Click here to see our Equal Opportunities statement.

All job applicants will be treated fairly and judged solely on their merits. If you have a disability which is likely to affect you adversely within the application process, please let us know (as soon as you feel comfortable to do so) so that we can consider whether we can make any adjustments to the process that will allow you to be considered fairly for the role.

How to apply

If you are interested please apply online.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

Company

CMS is a future facing international law firm. With 74 offices in 44 countries and 5000+ lawyers worldwide, and home to business services colleagues across everything from Information Technology, Human Resources and Innovation to Finance, Diversity & Inclusion and Communications.  The firm’s core purpose is to build rewarding futures for its clients, people, and communities.

We’re a global law firm. We focus on the big and the small. We look to the future and embrace agility and challenge. We are experts in our sectors and have the rankings to back that up.  But it’s not all sectors and rankings. We focus on relationships. We’re a community. We look out for each other, encourage everyone to be themselves, and the best version of that. We’re friendly and go-getting. We act with purpose and find passion in what we do. We seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We don’t want everyone to be the same.  We know the best route forward is with the most diverse group of colleagues as possible. We’re here to build a better future.

In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, every team at CMS is empowered to operate and innovate in ways that best meet clients’ needs. We encourage ideas from every corner of our business. We are also committed to addressing our own impact on the environment and approach to sustainability, as well as advising clients with their related legal needs.

We strive to spend more time looking at our clients’ world than inwards at ours.  That’s what makes our approach different. Being able to see things from our clients’ perspective means our people are approachable and accessible. And this means we have a genuinely supportive, open culture you won’t find everywhere. 

Our culture

It’s all about relationships. Our relationship with you, your relationship with us, and the relationships we have with clients and the communities around us. We want you to thrive and show your personality. Foster community, work together, listen, be open, and help each other succeed. Act with purpose and find passion. Strive for progress and embrace challenges. Seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We value trust over rules.

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.  We're diverse, supportive, and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.  

Whatever your specialism, and whether you’re a lawyer or a business services professional, a career at CMS gives you huge scope to carve out a brilliant career as you help us, and our clients, to face the future with confidence.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7367 3000
Location
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom

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